Rage Against the Machine Knocked Out of Top Spot on UK Singles Chart

Posted on Dec 28th 2009 4:00PM by Emily Tan
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The campaign to put Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name Of' atop the UK Singles Chart may have worked for Christmas, but it wasn't successful in keeping it in the No. 1 slot for another week. 'The Climb' by 'X Factor' champ Joe McElderry will have the top spot on the chart for the New Year.

As Spinner previously reported, Joe and Tracy Morter started a Facebook group to get Rage Against the Machine's 1992 politically-charged hit to outsell the 'X Factor' winner's single. The Facebook group currently has well over one million members. While show boss Simon Cowell denounced the move, Rage's Tom Morello and Zach de la Rocha were fully behind the ploy.

While it looks like the campaign against Simon Cowell has started to slow down, there have been rumors that the music mogul has invited the Morters to work for his record company, SyCo. Jon Morter recently told Digital Spy that he and his wife hadn't heard anything about it.

"Our inboxes for Facebook, Twitter, e-mails have gone stratospheric," Morter said. "So to be honest we haven't a clue if anyone has offered us anything. We certainly have not accepted or refused anything."