Rage Against The Machine just hours to go for Christmas Number 1

It’s been the chart battle of the century and we’re now just hours from finding out who will claim the Christmas number 1 spot.

The huge campaign, RATM4Xmas, has seen Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name be up against X Factor winner, Joe McElderry, and it all started through one man on Facebook.  Jon Morter, with the help of his wife, Tracy, decided enough was enough with the X Factor always claiming the Christmas number 1 spot and decided to do something about it!

Over 800,000 Facebook fans later and the campaign has certainly put the frighteners on Simon Cowell, who branded it ‘cynical’ and was ‘an attempt to spoil the party.

Despite appearing on the X Factor Final, Sir Paul McCartney, has announced his support for RATM.  Speaking to Sky News, Macca said “If he (McElderry) goes to No 1 then good luck to him. He’s just some kid with a career ahead. I’ve got nothing against that, but it would be kind of funny if Rage Against the Machine got it because it would prove a point.”

Rage Against The Machine’s guitarist, Tom Morello,  said that by buying ‘Killing In The Name’, fans are effectively voting against The X Factor and other reality TV programmes like it.

“The one thing about The X Factor show, much like our own American Idol, is if you’re a viewer of the show you get to vote for one contestant or the other, but you don’t really get to vote against the show itself until now,” he told BBC 6Music.

HMV have said reported that Rage Against The Machine do appear to be ahead of Joe, but many people may have been stocking up on Joe’s single over the weekend.  Although with the recent snowfall, many may have not been able to get and the last chance was by midnight last night.

Killing in the Name has been number 1 on Amazon’s download chart for most of the week and is still there, showing there’s still huge support for it.  See the chart.

The eventual will be announced on Radio 1’s Chart Show from 4pm today.