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Simon Cowell says the campaign to stop X Factor winner Joe McElderry topping the UK Christmas chart is like “a huge hate mob”.
The Facebook group is calling on people to buy Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name' instead of the 18-year-old's song 'The Climb'.
The two songs are currently neck-and-neck to take the festive top spot on Sunday.
In an interview with The Sun, Cowell said the campaign had “got out of hand” and was like “David versus Goliath”.
"All these musical snobs have ganged up against Joe,” he said.
"If you take me out of the equation, you have a teenager with his first single being attacked by a huge hate mob on Facebook.
“It almost feels like a little kid being bullied. It feels like a spiteful campaign aimed at an 18-year-old who won a talent competition.”
As Gigwise reported earlier, Sir Paul McCartney is the latest musician to back the campaign, calling it “funny”.
But X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has described the battle as “mean”.
If successful, the US band would be the first non-X Factor act to take the festive crown in five years.
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- The RATM campaign is not aimed that this lad, it is making a statement about music and an appeal to invest in a diverse range of genres not just slow ballards. If Simon Cowell was taken out of the equation, there would probably be no need to protest. No-one behind RATM cares one way or another about Joe McElderry.
- how is it that he keep's missing the entire point of the campaign?
hi everyone
no worries simon
i made a fan page called get joe mcelderry to christmas number one
gooooooooooooooooooo joe
love stephxxxx
- Simon Cowell, greed and capitalism is the reason why there is so much sufferring in this World. Shame some of you kids out there cannot see that X-Factor is just a money machine for Simon Cowell and his grossly overpaid dimwitted judges.
- just because you win the X factor doesnt mean you should automatically get christmas number one, youve got to fight for it like everyone else in the charts. This isn't a hate mob aimed at joe, its a campaign to get a brilliant song christmas no 1. i mean the climb by miley cyrus? it that really deserved of christmas number one? musical and snobs? im sorry thats just not true
isnt christmas no1 supposed to be chosen by the public? winning x factor shouldnt necessarily mean getting no1.
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