AC/DC’s ‘Highway To Hell’ could be set to top the UK singles charts at Christmas, after a Facebook campaign set up to launch the hard rock band to the top spot attracted over 100,000 likes. The song is now the 3/1 second-favourite.
Since Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of…’ was successfully propelled to the top of the Xmas charts back in 2009 and beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry, who became the first ever contestant in the singing competition to not bag a festive number one hit, members of the public annually launched campaigns to prevent the victor of Simon Cowell’s show from reaching the top spot. Cowell retaliated by releasing the X Factor winners songs a week before Christmas, ensuring that they reach the number one spot regardless of whether or not they get a Christmas number one.
This year, the as-yet-unannounced X Factor winner is the 11/8 favourite, while AC/DC also face competition from the likes of Lily Allen’s insufferable cover of Keane’s ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, 11 year-old choirboy Jack Topping’s ‘Tomorrow’ from the musical Annie and a rendition of Wizzard’s ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’ performed by the members of Blue, 5ive, 911, B*witched, Liberty X and Atomic Kitten.
What a truly awful week for pop music.
