What it did, was this:

The Xmas number one in the UK is the most (or was when I was a kid in the 70's) coverted number one in the whole year. I can recall every Xmas number one throughout the whole 70's......

What we have seen since the start of X Factor, is the winner is ''guarenteed' to be number 1 for Xmas. The RATM campaign ended that ''guarentee''. The point against the X Factor is that we know this years 2010 winner will also be number 1.... and that is regardless of the quality of the song or singer - unless another campaign is started to topple that too. People are fed up of the charts being manipulated in this way, where the whole show is timed to end the week before Xmas and for the winner to ''get the top slot''.

Who cares the RATM sing was number 40 this week. Who cares anything about the charts in the first week of the year..... X Factor can be number 1 for all we care...but the fact remains, that the winner will go down in history as the first winner NOT to be number 1 at Xmas and that will piss Cowell off more than anything.... money and manipulation simply couldn't buy him that number 1 spot.



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