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The decline of Simon Cowell continues with an ongoing massive drop in sales for the X Factor single at Christmas. Early reports indicate the weak version of The Climb by Joe McElderry may have been HELPED by the Rage Against The Machine campaign.

Despite Cowell’s ongoing anti-girl campaigns on both American Idol and X Factor, the pretty boys do not sell records. The sales of boy winners on both shows are often half or even a quarter of winning girls, so Joe’s sales may have received an artificial boost from the Killing In The Name campaign.

We’ll follow up with more detail but bullet points for now show the extent of the impact of the social media revolution:

• 900,000 Facebook supporters helped achieve 502,000 sales
• 17 million alleged X Factor viewers slumped to 450,000 sales
• Rage Against The Machine campaign raised £72,000 in one week for charity
• Killing In The Name is first ever No.1 based on download sales only
• Killing In The Name achieved the biggest first week download sales ever
• #RATM and #ratm4xmas became trending topics on Twitter
• Simon Cowell’s anti-girl phase thoroughly documented on the web

See our exclusive chart after the jump.

Our exclusive chart below shows just how weak the alleged winning boys are - poor voices, low musical knowledge, almost zero vocal range:

Initial reports said the sales figures for the top 3 singles were:

502,672 Rage Against The Machine
450,838 Joe McElderry
  61,677 Lady GaGa

The rest of the Top 20 singles had low figures, some below 10,000 sales.

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