Snub the Facebook chart campaign this Christmas (From Penarth Times)

Snub the Facebook chart campaign this Christmas

9:30am Thursday 17th December 2009

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By Chris Moore »

You may remember this time last year when a bunch of unhappy people got a Facebook campaign going to stop Alexandra Burke reaching number one at Christmas with “Hallelujah”.

They were urging us with all of their hearts to download Jeff Buckley’s version rather than the X-Factor version because, despite the song having been covered hundreds of times over the years they couldn’t stand it getting the X-Factor treatment.

It didn’t work, and as it turned Ms Burke did a half-decent job.

Fast forward twelve months and it’s happening again, only this year it’s a Rage Against The Machine song that’s been nominated as the song to stop the rot.

Quite how it was decided that they would be the lucky recipients of a few royalties I don’t know.

There’s a Facebook group (what else could it be?) signing up people who then show their support against the dark side by downloading the song.

Those who have joined up say that they don’t want Simon Cowell dictating what the Christmas number one will be.

To that end most of them are downloading a song they probably won’t like by a band they may never have heard of because someone else has told them to.

And the difference is…not very much actually.

Here’s an idea, rather than worrying about being the guardians of the nation’s musical tastes (which is a stressful job), why not take the money you would have spent on downloading something you don’t really want and putting it in the nearest charity tin.

Now that would be a bit of Christmas spirit.

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