The raging UK chart war

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The number one slot in Britain’s Christmas top forty is traditionally a soft and fluffy, family-friendly place. In recent years its been dominated by winners of British reality TV show ‘The X-Factor’. This year, a music fan decided he was “a bit bored with that” and organized a Facebook campaign which succeeded in consigning this year’s X-Factor winner to the number two slot. And the tune he urged his supporters to download? A 17-year old track by American rockers Rage Against the Machine. Download MP3