Already own all their albums but jsut bought the track again!!
Everyone must buy it!!!
Its a bloody great song too…………
DLed from Amazon last night. Then blew another £3 on some older classics (oooh - now remastered !)
It has been confirmed by The Official Charts Company that Amazon sales DO count.
Woooof
It has been confirmed by The Official Charts Company that Amazon sales DO count.
Link?
It was confirmed on the FB page last night. Can't link from work unfortunately.
neonplanet40
Link?
I need 5 posts :(
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Still a bargin for such an awesome track! :rockon2:
http://www.theofficialcharts.com/chart_rules.phpRules PDF
3.0 Singles Definitions Summary
j. (i) Digital Audio Track - Audio download - Minimum £0.40
Edit by Stoo - Amazon buys the tracks from Sony at 40p or more, they then sell at 29p as a loss leader.
I always thought there was another rule about it having to be available on at least two formats but I can't find official confirmation of that.
Quote from amazon site
Just to back up what's been said about the 29p downloads counting towards the chart. They DO count, I e-mailed the official chart company to ask and they confirmed that 29p downloads off Amazon count towards the chart. The minimum price of 40p is the DEALER price what Amazon pay, if they decide to sell cheaper as a special offer then it's up to them but it doesn't effect the downloads being counted towards the chart.
Once again, 29p downloads DO count towards the chart :)
neonplanet40
Bit of a joke to be honest isn't? Shouldnt matter what it costs…
I guess it's to stop someone releasing a song for 1p and having a good chance of getting the most sales coz it's cheap.
Doesn't matter about price though. Its all still down to the demand of a song. And thats what should count. Not how much it was.
neonplanet40
Already own all their albums but jsut bought the track again!! How many albums do x factor have??? and you got all of them!!!!!
Everyone must buy it!!! 10 million will do!!!
Its a bloody great song too…………Really!!!!!! But it was originally a miley cyrus song, …you really do like joe!!
:mrgreen:
Meant RATM
:censored::censored::censored::angst::angst::angst::censored::censored::censored::censored:
Rules PDF, notes on page 5
3. Digital Minimum Dealer Price £0.40p : Only tracks with a minimum PPD of 40 pence or more shall be eligible for the Official Singles Chart. In the event that a record company has an alternative business model for the sale of downloads (i.e., one not based on a published dealer price), the price charged to the online digital retailer should not be less than 32 pence per track. OCC will monitor sales to ensure they are ‘genuine sales’. Where OCC judges sales not to be genuine, they may be excluded from the chart at OCC's absolute discretion.
Seems to be so much conflicting evidence.
EDIT: 7 of Amazon's top 10 downloads are £0.29
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/dmusic/digital-music-track/ref=pd_dp_ts_dmusic_1<brain explodes>
So if we all buy 1 copy from each of the sites, then this really could work!
F off Simon Cowall, we want xmas back!
On purpose maybe?
mycarsavw
j. (i) Digital Audio Track - Audio download - Minimum £0.40
That is the amount the Retailer has to pay. So Amazon is losing 11p on every Joe/RATM they sell.
ouch wrestling chair on the head….. thought you'd like that… :)
Woooof
The Official Charts Company
That, right there, is another reason most of the music in the UK charts suck. Why do singles have to have stupid restrictions such as being no longer than 20 minutes, and having only 3-4 tracks? Is the utterly pointless “no Internet URLs in the inlay” rule still there, too?
AGTDenton
Only 17 years late but better late than never.
Now i feel old.
subucni
Now i feel old.
Sorry ;)
But how about a compromise you will have had far better music than I did growing up during the mid-late 90's
It was just full of cheesey rubbish!
We must double our efforts, all the old women can start buying the CD today.
Can I setup 5 amazon accounts up with different cards and get 5 sales in? (and repeat with others)
Either way between me and a few friends we should get a good few sales in later.
Sorted :)
Nuce fast download from amazon as well
Killing in the name of! \m/
Good song. :D
Only thing is, same record company owns both. X-factor sponsors are laughing all the way to the bank. :/ An exercise in how easy it is to start off a “wave” with social media
Sony BMG are huuuuuuuuuge, there's virtually no way of buying anything from any popular artist without it getting back to some major corporation..
But it's not about who gets money out of it, it about not having another dull xfactor track for xmas no 1!
Besides, at 29p/track it doesn't exactly break the bank, and is thoroughly worth it to wipe the smile off Cowells mug :)
Reclaim the charts people! ;)
I splashed out 29p from Amazon, and bought Fairytale of New York at the same time. Then I was bored and bought it on my iPod Touch too.
The machine always wins and that will be Sony, and as they own both BMG (RATM label) and syco (cowells label) they are the big winners…..
who really cares abour xmas 1, chart music, cowell, ratm!!!!!
asked them not to do it and they did it anyway - so buy Joe's record."
Human being most likely to have been crossed with a pig award:
Clearly the origin of the phrase “face for radio”…
Good to see them shown up. That radio station is basically The Sun of radio, the other poncey “presenter” “nicky” (yes, male) above is just as bad, did you see that “big questions” where they brought in a bunch of religious pundits and set up a load of strawmen arguments to attack gaming? Ending with (on modern warfare 2) “It's all slightly sick to me. Thank you every much, we'll leave it there.”…
I saw/heard that clip. Talk about missing the point; expecting someone like Zack de la Rocha to cowtow to the sensibilities of a large corporation. You can take a horse to water…
Was rather chuckle worthy if you know the track.
Gotta say though SURELY they saw this coming?
A band called Rage Against The Machine, being asked not to sing a line that goes “**** you I won't do what you tell me”.
And R5 expected them to do what they were told?
Was funny as hell….goes to show how clueless the ppl at the radio station were…..I couldn't believe they really thought they would refrain from that line :D
I'm just waiting for the day now, when i can walk into a shop at Christmas and hear RATM playing sandwiched between Cliff Richard amd Band Aid, as it's a legitimate Christmas song now.
Wonder if it'll ever get onto
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Christmas-Album-World-Ever/dp/B00004YTXAHopefull 1 thing that will come out of this will be that they'll decided to come over and do a UK gig or 2.
Woohoo RAGE are number 1 :D
They are donating some of the proceeds to the charity Shelter.
Whereas Joe isn't.
I heard the song for the first time a couple of days ago when the RATM campaign started, I don't watch x factor and never will. First thoughts were ohmygiddyaunt… Second: Waiting for the announcement he is gay, like take that were proved to be! “backstreet boys”? nuff said.
Just saw on the news that Killing In The Name is the official Christmas number one.
Well played everyone who bought it. Nice to make a difference, however small.