Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
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Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#2Why we might care: for the last several years the winner of Cowell's reality TV show has been propelled immediately to #1 in time for the culturally-significant-for-Brits Xmas Top 40.
This year a backlash campaign to shove 'Killing in the Name' above it took off on Facebook and, in an unlikely outcome, the people who joined the group actually followed through and bought the RATM track during the correct time window.
(The link was posted before the programme aired on BBC Radio 1 and turned out to be completely accurate.)
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#3I'm sure Simon is crying all the way to the bank over this.
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#4You know, I thought pop music might've turned a corner a few years ago when producers were starting to use more electronic elements in pop. I thought there'd be some decent, slightly innovative pop music coming out in the future. I was mistaken.
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#5I'm sure Simon is crying all the way to the bank over this.
It's not about the money. It's about the message. Even if all the albums cost $0, the message would remain the same. Not everything in the world is about money or banks or finances (no matter how much that's mentioned on HackerNews...)
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#6Personally I don't care about the views of Simon Cowell. I doubt that the music charts accurately reflect what people are actually listening to, due to the diversity of ways in which music can now be obtained and played.
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#7Still, stuff like this makes me excited again about seeing the next 40 years unfold ...
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#8Personally I don't care about the views of Simon Cowell. I doubt that the music charts accurately reflect what people are actually listening to, due to the diversity of ways in which music can now be obtained and played.
The musical angle is secondary. The real story is that a centralized cultural influence (Cowell) was overshadowed by a distributed cultural influence (Facebook).
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#9You know, I thought pop music might've turned a corner a few years ago when producers were starting to use more electronic elements in pop. I thought there'd be some decent, slightly innovative pop music coming out in the future. I was mistaken.
I'm a little confused by this comment. Electronic elements have been a mainstay of pop production for a quarter of a century.
Re: Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas
#10I'm sure Simon is crying all the way to the bank over this.
The big winner was Sony, who profit from sales of either.