Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > The joke in the UK is that,every year at Christmastime, X Factor contestants > release a version of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, and it skews and > distorts normal sales of music singles. A few years back one if the radio > DJs told listeners to all buy the same '80s pop song to further screw with > the numbers.
Says Wikipedia, "From 2005 to 2010, the winners of The X Factor took the number one spot on five occasions. [...] Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" outsold Joe McElderry in 2009 following a successful Facebook campaign." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Singles_Chart_Christmas_number_ones -- Ed Dravecky III http://www.fencon.org/ -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
