Rage Against The Machine are hoping to make peace with Simon Cowell, by inviting Susan Boyle to sing with them on stage.
The rock band took the Christmas number one spot from Simon Cowell’s X Factor act Joe McElderry, as the result of a huge internet campaign. Cowell had blasted campaign supporters for bullying young Joe and was not amused when he was kept off the top spot.
Rage Against The Machine will be announcing the details of their free UK gig later this week.
The group promised fans the concert, if their single ‘Killing In The Name Of’ managed to claim the Christmas number one spot over Joe McElderry’s ‘The Climb.’
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, has claimed that the bands win over X Factor winner Joe McElderry on Sunday was nothing short of an ‘act of God.’
Morello told NME: “Make no mistake about it, this was a political act! This was an entire nation delivering a stinging slap of rejection to the whole notion of pre-fabricated pop ruling the charts.
X Factor sources have claimed that Simon Cowell may move the show’s final forward a week next year, so to avoid the battle for Christmas number one.
Despite the show receiving it’s highest ratings ever, this year’s winner Joe McElderry lost out on Christmas number one to Rage Against The Machine on Sunday.
Piers Morgan has admitted that he is extremely amused by Simon Cowell’s recent defeat at the hands of Rage Against The Machine.
The rock band won the race for Christmas number one against X factor winner Joe McElderry last week, a fact which Piers takes great joy in gloating about.
He told The Mirror that Cowell is probably “seething with rage” at the outcome.
Jon and Tracy Morter, the people behind the massive Rage Against The Machine internet campaign, have been offered jobs by X Factor boss Simon Cowell.
Cowell admitted that he was hugely impressed by the viral online campaign and how it was managed. He isn’t even bitter that Jon and Tracy helped block his boy Joe McElderry from the Christmas number one spot.
“I offered them jobs at my record company,” He told The Mirror. “It could be in marketing or even running the company!
X Factor judge Louis Walsh has told Joe McElderry not to lose heart after losing the battle for Christmas number one yesterday. He insists that Joe will go on to sell one million copies of his debut single ‘The Climb’ and more albums than RATM could ever hope for.
Louis told The Sun: “You always have novelty records at No1 for Christmas and Killing In The Name is nothing but that. Joe has nothing to worry about at all.
“With all the fuss about Rage Against The Machine, people might fail to realise that Joe has still sold 450,000 records, which is phenomenal. He only lost by a tiny 50,000 sales.
Rage Against The Machine frontman Zach De La Rocha has thanked fans for pushing their single ‘Killing In The Name Of’ to Christmas number one.
Speaking to the Radio One Chart show last night, De La Rocha said that the band were delighted to ‘topple this very sterile pop monopoly.’ He said:
Industry insiders have claimed that X Factor’s Joe McElderry may have won today’s chart battle against Rage Against The Machine, if it hadn’t been snowing.
Rage Against The Machine scooped the coveted Christmas number one after they sold 502,000 copies of their single ‘Killing In The Name Of’ whilst X Factor winner Joe McElderry only sold 450,000 copies of his single ‘The Climb.
Joe McElderry has been his usual gracious self tonight as he commented on Rage Against the Machine winning Christmas number one.
Speaking on Radio One’s The Switch tonight Joe admitted that he was disappointed that his single only made it to number two, but went on to congratulate Rage on their win.
The 18 year old said:
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