RATM outselling Joe McElderry by 2:1 on 7digital
Today’s bulletin from the race to be the Christmas number one in the UK comes from digital retailer 7digital, which says Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of’ is outselling ‘The Climb’ by X Factor winner Joe McElderry by 2:1.
RATM’s track is top of 7digital’s chart, which CEO Ben Drury says came as something of a shock for the retailer. “The sheer volume of sales has surprised us all,” he says. “As of Thursday morning, Killing In The Name is ahead by a factor of 2:1 and has a genuine chance of making it to number one.”
The Facebook campaign backing Killing In The Name Of has been an unexpected success – cynics (including us) expected lots of the people signing up for it to not follow through and actually buy the song. However, as Drury points out: “The real proof will come when sales of the physical version of The Climb are counted.”
Tags: 7digital, joe mcelderry, rage against the machine, ratm, x factor
December 17th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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January 1st, 2010 at 2:00 am
ok Joe McElderry was beat by RATM fair & square? Or was it? RATM are an internationally successful group whom were piched against a talent show winning nobody (well nobody to the whole world apart from 12 million uk viewers). Hardly a fair battle… The only winners were of course Sony, whom have rights to both artists .. I smell a rat…