According to figures posted this morning by The Official Charts Company, Rage Against The Machine are beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the race to be the Christmas Number One by a staggering 65,000 copies!
Killing In The Name - famous for it's defiant refrain of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!’ - has sold 175,163 while McElderry’s cover of Miley Cyrus' recent hit, The Climb, has sold 109,726.
However the Los Angles band will undoubtedly lose their position at the top of the charts when physical copies of McElderry’s single hit stores later today.
“Joe will be Number One," X Factor head honcho Simon Cowell told the Daily Star. "We've got half a million singles going out [today].”
However Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tome Morello remains optimistic about his band's chart battle.
"The one thing about the X Factor show, much like our own American Idol, is if you're a viewer of the show you get to vote for one contestant or the other, but you don't really get to vote against the show itself, until now!" he told the BBC. "It's this machinery that puts forward a particular type of music which represents a particular kind of listener.
"There are a lot of people who don't feel represented by it and this Christmas in the UK they're having their say," he added. "My hope is that one of the results of this whole Christmas season is there'll be a new generation of rockers who will take on the establishment with the music they write."
You know what you have to do folks...
ECHELON!!! 8/