JustJax

Would love it to be No.1 but the physical is out the same week as the physical's are out for Lady Gaga's Alejandro so she could get lost in the Gaga frenzy, especially if Gaga delivers another must see video. Hopefully she's get No.1 on the 20th or 27th based on downloads only.

Humm, disappointed Gaga isn't No1. I wonder how close the top 3 are. Hope she's climbs to No1 as the week goes by.

Am I missing something, why is there talk about Untouchable? Have Girls Aloud rereleased it?

So excited to see the Glee tracks charting. I hope the show does well on C4 on Sunday.

True, but I'll buy just one time and possibly the physical sales will make up the rest ;)

Thanks, I'll use it to buy Joe's single for free! :lol:

ITA, I actually wouldn't be too bothered if Joe lost out on the No1 because a track was genuinely more popular and a great tune. In fact would have to have Lady Gaga No1 again, but when its just people manipulating the charts to sabotage another single, is just sad IMHO.

Well thats fair enough, but no one is aware of these people, so they won't been seen to have failed, Joe on the other hand will have. I'm not saying he deserves it more than other artists who have struggled, but this RATM campaign is just very negative and aimed at derailing Joe's single getting to no1, it not about pushing great music, its a jump on the bandwagon campaign to sabotage Simon Cowell and the X-Factor single. Would the RATM song have charted under any other circumstances? People are buying it because of the campaign, not because they like RATM or that single. No one is forcing people to buy Joe's song. Millions of people have watched the X-Factor and are buying it because they like Joe or the song. It just all seems a bit mean spirited IMHO.

I feel bad for Joe. As other have said, Simon probably won't really care, Joe's X-Factor single won't necessarily sell any less because of this and the label wins either way as both singles are on Sony’s record label. The only thing Simon loses is the cachet of getting the title of Christmas No1, but in reality it’ll be Joe that loses out on that title and will be remembered as the first X-Factor winner to not get a No1 with the winning single. I wouldn’t be too bothered if a great song was released and proved more popular on its own accord, but RATM single is only a hit because of the campaign and it most likely wouldn’t even have dented the Top 100 had it just been a standard new single release.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this single download only? Surely the physical sales of the X-Factor song are likely to be massive (parents buying as Xmas presents, etc) and therefore will easily exceed RATM download only figures? Either way, I'll be interesting to see the first set of figures tomorrow.