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Fri 12 Dec 2009Rage against the X-Factor machine
US band Rage Against the Machine’s song Killing in the Name remains ahead of X-Factor winner Joe McElderry’s The Climb in the race to be the UK number 1 for Christmas although just 4,000 sales separated the two acts this morning.
The internet campaign launched to get the rap-metal’s song – which includes the refrain: “F**k you, I won’t do what you tell me” – to number 1 is an effort to break a sequence of X-Factor Christmas number 1s stretching back to 2005.
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