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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Guitarist Praises U.K. Chart Race

December 16, 2009

A Facebook group which aims to get RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's 1992 hit "Killing In The Name" to be the Christmas No. 1 on the U.K. chart has attracted more than 750,000 members.

According to BBC News, initial sales figures showed the rock classic was ahead of "X Factor" winner Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus' recent hit "The Climb" — by 65,000 copies!

"Killing In The Name" has sold 175,163 while "The Climb" has shifted 109,726 units, reports Kerrang! magazine.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello told BBC 6 Music it was "heart-warming".

He told the station's breakfast show that the "rebel anthem song will transcend the Christmas holidays".

He added: "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! It's this machinery that puts forward a particular type of music which represents a particular kind of listener.

"There are a lot of people who don't feel represented by it and this Christmas in the U.K. they're having their say," he continued. "My hope is that one of the results of this whole Christmas season is there'll be a new generation of rockers who will take on the establishment with the music they write."

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is expected to lose its position at the top of the U.K. chart when physical copies of McElderry's single hit stores later today.

"Joe will be No. 1," "X Factor" show creator Simon Cowell told the Daily Star. "We've got half a million singles going out [today]."

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