So Rage Against the Machine got the UK Christmas number one, beating the worst X-Factor song to date by a clear 50,000 sales, almost making up for last year’s dire Alexandra Burke Hallelujah cover beating both Leonard Cohen’s original and Jeff Buckley’s version to the top spot. If we need a battle next year, I [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Simon Cowell moans about ‘music snobs’, misses point
Digital Spy reports on Simon Cowell’s unhappiness regarding the fact his monopoly over the British Christmas number-one might end this year, due to a Facebook campaign to install Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name instead. The Sun claims Cowell moaned that “musical snobs have ganged up against Joe [McElderry]” and: “If you take [...]
Why analysts need to shut up faster than London’s Nokia shop disaster
This morning’s Times reports Nokia will close its Regent Street store, because it’s somehow—and this is a massive (non) shock—failed to tempt people across the road from the Apple Store. Frankly, this is mind-boggling. How a shop stocking a bunch of fairly dated and dull phones never managed to grab people from an always busy [...]
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