This years anti X factor single is....

[pete_mcc]

Them and simon cowel because i think he owns the rights to the F U i wont do what you tell me tune...

Not quite but he runs Syco/Simco which Sony majority owns. Syco is the biggest profit maker in Sonys portfolio, so either way Sony won.

 

[mattbrown]

this old arguement again, If you buy anything Sony, then Simon Cowell wins???? PS3, TV, DVD players, that wasnt the point, it was symbolic stand against the crap in the charts, Cowell has made millions by the time it came to the winner, not just from the winner.

 

[pete_mcc]

All kisses and make-up now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15467428

 

[SwanHouseNappa]

it was symbolic stand against the crap in the charts,

That's my point exactly.
If it's symbolism you're after, that's why I suggest a boycott of any records.

Would it not be far more intersting to hear that the Christmas charts were the poorest buyer turnout for however many years? Instead of "and at number one, a record which people have bought because they think it somehow makes a stand against "the man"." (apologies for quotes within quotes.)

I probably sound like a miserable cynic, which I am, but of the few things that get up my nose, so-called "facebook revolution" is one.
While I aknowledge that it was instrumental in the recent Arab spring uprisings, it is also responsible for sad grown ups who ought to know better gathering in large numbers in public places pretending to be zombies, or dancing like some eighties film or other.
At the time (2009?), one of the fastest growing internet petitions in Britain was not aiming to instigate political change or eradicate war, oppresion or suffering. It was not even making a stand against the continuing dilution fo the music industry.

Instead, it brought back the Cadburys Wispa.

For millions, revolution has become something you click on on your lunch break.

The internet is full of crap.

 

[rosstheboss]

A boycott of buying music wouldn't work as it is happening already -less people are buying music, hence why the X Factor is cashing in by selling muppet music to kids and consistently going to number one. If every artist had a primetime tv show behind them in the run up to xmas, then maybe the no.1 slot would be more contested. It's practically bordering on anti competitiveness!!!

Using facebook is a perfect way of spreading a message about something - lots of people think old mountain bikes are crap but here we all are, on the internet, talking about them! Does that not make us comparable to the facebook masses?

Also remember this campaign is for charity, a charity which X Factor judges have tried to ignore, bully into submission but ultimately have to give in to because of people using facebook!!!

Basically it's a bit of fun for a good cause, and if it keeps some shite cover from going to number 1 then I and many other people will be happy.