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X Factor winner, Joe McElderry finally got his #1.

via NME.

The X Factor winner Joe McElderry has taken the Number One spot in the UK singles chart for the New Year tonight (December 27).

McElderry comfortably beat last week’s (December 20) chart topper Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’, which had claimed the Christmas Number One spot thanks to a Facebook campaign against Simon Cowell.

His song ‘The Climb’ has since sold 196,000 copies in the last week, beating ‘Killing In The Name’ by over 130,000.

I’m not surprised the momentum dissipated quickly for the “Killing in the Name of   Love” campaign, once it successfully messed with X Factor’s 4 year Christmas #1 winning streak.   The feat was pretty remarkable for a 17 year old song.

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