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I like RATM and can't stand X Factor and everything about the music it ends up producing, but I'm still struggling to see the one major point that's apparently been made. Next week, the single will drop, and the charts will continue to be full of the usual songs that the general populous likes. What has been achieved? Nothing will change. The charts aren't suddenly going to fill up with similar music.
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I like RATM and can't stand X Factor and everything about the music it ends up producing, but I'm still struggling to see the one major point that's apparently been made. Next week, the single will drop, and the charts will continue to be full of the usual songs that the general populous likes. What has been achieved? Nothing will change. The charts aren't suddenly going to fill up with similar music.

Unless your music taste is influenced by the charts, this has no effect on you. It's a pretty old-fashioned frame of mind considering these days it's so much easier to discover music outside of chart focus. Despite the fact I think RATM are brilliant, I couldn't care less because if I want to listen to Killing In The Name, I'll happily click play. I don't pay attention to the charts, but if people enjoy what's in it then good for them! Why should I interfere when I have no real interest?

Let's face it - if RATM are your sort of thing, then you're not likely to care about the music in the charts anyway.

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You completely miss the point if you thing people are trying to change the music industry. As many have said it could have been Mr Blobby or the likes. The point it is making is that once upon a time the Christmas no.1 was a battle between acts, there was a kind of romance about it and even non chart followers could see the fun it. Since the X Factor has come along, the bookies stopped taking bets because it was such a dead cert that the X Factor would win. My dad made the point the other night that if X Factor was held in summer then people wouldn't give a f*ck, it's soley because it's Christmas.

The one thing I do hope comes from this is that the Christmas no.1 from now on will be a contest an not just an X Factor a coronation, it used to be as much a tradition as the turkey. Imaging one day all the shops decided to sell geese insted of turkeys? Same thing. People like tradition. X Factor and the likes have 12 months of manufactured pop, why for one special time of year can we not have something different?

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