Rage against the Machine to give proceeds to charity
What could be more heartening than the thought that the X-factor winner might not make it to Christmas no.1? The thought that a) it’ll be Rage against the Machine and b) they’ll be handing over the proceeds to charity.
Tom Morello announced that they will be donating the profits to Shelter and Youth Music.
Their 1992 hit has become a revived internet phenomenon, aiming the knock the smug smile of Simon Cowell’s face. It is competing against X-factor winner Joe McElderry, who is covering, of all things, a Miley Cyrus song. As always, the song is causing a commotion, especially due to its use of the f- word, and was played on Radio 5 Live yesterday before producers realised it was offensive to some.
We say: Miley Cyrus song? He couldn’t even stretch to a cover song of Billy Ray Cyrus? We hope that everyone goes out and downloads Rage at least 10 times (it’ll only cost you £2.90). Two very fine charities will receive money in the process, and Simon Cowell will fume. What can be better? Merry Christmas indeed!
Edit Mon 21st Dec: And now we know that Rage against the Machine have indeed beaten Simon Cowell – sorry, Joe McElderry – to the number one spot! Fantastic news for music – and proof that not everyone likes the kind of ear-sapping mush piped out by the X-Factor soundalikes. Regardless of whether Sony control both acts or not, the great news is that two charities will benefit from this little bit of competition – read the comments below for even more information on how the money has been raised – thanks to everyone for contributing so far.
I am convinced this is a huge scam. The Facebook campaign says the money would go to Shelter. If you are real RATM fans, you should know their other track “NO Shelter”:
“…Empty ya pockets son, they got you thinkin that
What ya need is what they sellin
Make you think that buyin is rebellin’…
… American eyes, American eyes
View the world from American eyes…”
Simple maths: 300,000 copies of “Killing…” sold at 29p, that makes £87,000. They promise £30,000 to Shelter. Provided the charity really gets that amount, where does the rest go? The Facebook campaign costs nothing!
Fair point – although even if that leaves £57k, that’s a relatively small marketing budget for any charitable cause raising £30k! All charities speculate to accumulate……..
Dave.
The Facebook group was not started by Rage against the Machine. The people who did start the group asked people to also donate to shelter at this place:
http://www.justgiving.com/ratm4xmas
Where they have raised £61,000 for Shelter. This is excluding the money RATM will themselves give.
Anyone who knows anything about the record industry would know that only about 50p of an ALBUM sold goes to the artist. The rest of the money is eaten up in costs, and most of it goes to the record company. For downloads, the artist would get only a fraction of the selling price. It is this amount that Morello and co. have pledged to charity. They have no control over the full amount.
This race to number one is an awesome historical event in music. It is great that these charities are getting donations from it, but unfortunately in the long run, the record company will be the big winner. Sony is the record company for both Joe and Rage.
“Anyone who knows anything about the record industry would know that only about 50p of an ALBUM sold goes to the artist”.
Only if your name isn’t Trent Reznor or Thom Yorke…
DO NOT BUY 10 Coppies
it will not count
1 or 2 per credit card holder
bulk buying gets excluded
Why Rage Against the Machine vs x-factor is about more than Cowell or Sony BMG http://bit.ly/8WITQm
Dave
I don’t understand how your reference to No Shelter is relevant, are you saying it would be a better song to use or that it proves that we’re buying into a scam?
While I think No Shelter would be a better choice in regards to giving to charity, the whole point of the campaign was for the simple reason that there are alot of people in Britain who are fed up with having the X Factor winner as the Christmas number one, and the lyrics in Killing in the name “f**k you I won’t do what you tell me” are what the general public are saying to Simon Cowell.
Money going to Shelter is just an extra part of the campaign, and can be considered as a Christmas present to thos benefitting from the Charity.
Your ‘simple maths’ also ignores the fact that 29p is the retail cost from one outlet, which happens to be marking the track down from the wholesale cost for whatever reason; because it’s such an old song or they are trying to drum up business with a loss leader.
Quite apart from the fact that RATM didn’t start the campaign, didn’t know about it at the beginning, and didn’t pledge to give money to charity until a few days ago when they realised sales were going well.
Dave you complete and utter cretin… the £30,000 you refer to was DONATED by everyday people involved in the Facebook group out of their own pockets. It has nothing to do with whatver money RATM end up donating to charity from their royalties through all of this. I can’t believe how ignorant and stupid your comment was, you blatently didn’t bother actually finding out what was going on before you decided to chip in with your thoughts.
Oh, and by the way, it’s now over £60,000. Merry Christmas.
This is not just musical history in the making, it is also an important lesson in social awareness. Knowing that your opinion ‘can’ make a difference to the world we all live in is somthing that is normally overlooked and even dismissed in the minds of most in this day and age.
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RAGE have promised to do a free concert if the public pull this off and have allready pledged to donate thier windfall profits to charity.
As i write this i see that a staggering £62,000+ has been raised by this campaign [I cant see that the Xfactor winner would offer this pledge]
So go download ‘Killing In The Name Of’
No its not a christmasy tune but it was a clever choice by the campaign founders for two good reasons;
1.Rage have a HUGE following and every Rage fan knows and loves that tune, this in itself would guarantee a large potential sales base.
2.The sentiment of the tune embodies everything that the campaign stands for and much much more.
Go download while you still have time, you only need to do it once as too many sales from a single I.P. or from a single credit card negates those sales from the official listing.
IT’S YOUR DUTY TO HUMANITY, GO BUY THE TUNE.
Wishing all who read this a very merry Xmas and an xfactor free chart in the new year
dave-
you are an idiot…
all i would like to say is that this is anamazing chapter for our history in the way of proving that people yet again can prove they can band together and make something happen…hopefully now we can all take a stand and make issues better by all working together instead of being the mice led by the pipe players…we can do it an its amazing,i know its just a song but its a start…we have things like protests in the uk which always lead to violence which takes away what is trying to be sorted out and being un productive…use your voice but for good…this song shoves the finger up from the majority of the public in the uk who are sick an tired being spoon fed in reality a load of rubbish music with no passion and the big cats making the music…Genrated music is a false path and makes people who should never had made it into that direction get there in flase steps…music is about passion and people finding/searching for those bands…look at old bands such as u2,queen,bowie ect they worked very hard for what they have and deserve eveything…unfortunatly the x factor is a poor example of passion for music…good bands/music are found – not made…..
just stand for truth,dont be made to have to take second best…thats all the things like simon c is giving water’d down rubbish and unfortunatley making youth of today wanting to just be famous and make money,appear in magazines and forget about careers in making a difference…its like plastic made in the 80′s,it was rubbish and we would never make anything the same we did then so why know we are having it done again with things around us now?you can see and smell a bad egg so dont fall for it…..
sorry for the mega rant i probably totally lost where i was going but i am sure you get where i was going with …
also watching them live the other day was classic…such a great day for music!!!
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This has been an absolutely breathtaking week. 60 000 in charity. A fall of total domination of a greedy music tyrant. I am so glad to be a part of it. Rage on.
ha ha !!! we win we win !!!
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dont like to gloat but
…..we win we win
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