It’s already the closest battle for the Christmas number one spot in years, but the drama behind it makes it even more exciting.
Rage Against the machine fans have joined together to campaign against X Factor winner Joe McElderry reaching number one with his single “The Climb.”
Fans and generally those who are anti pop are being urged to by the Rage Against the Machine single “Killing In The Name” to ensure it gets to number one and thwarts that X Factor’s number one hit making production line.
Rage Against the Machine themselves have weighed in on the issue when speaking to the Sun Newspaper saying: “We see this as a necessary break of control.”
The threat of the campaign making the Rage song number one is a realistic one with the track “Killing In The Name” currently being narrowly ahead in the UK having sold 37,000 more copies with Christmas a week away.
The campaign is a backlash against the manufactured style talent the X Factor tends to produce, and in short, a rage against the machine.
London born singer, song writer, and dancer Pixie Lott, 18, is now set to make her on screen debut as an actress.
Pixie Lott, real name, Victoria Louise Lott said: “I’d love to act in the future. I know it’s dangerous for singers to go down that route… but I just want to do everything.”
Lot came to notoriety in 2009 with her number one debut single ‘Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)’ in June and achieved further success with her second single ‘Boys and Girls’ also reaching number one in September 2009.
Once the film is released next year the singer will have additional exposure in the US, which is expected to help both her singing and acting ambitions.
She will be playing the role of girlfriend to Youtube phenomenon Fred Figglehorn, real name Lucas Cruikshank in the film entitled, “Fred: The Movie”.
The character of Fred was first developed on Youtube, and is presented as a dysfunctional angry six year old with an abnormally high pitched voice.
The Youtube channel “Fred” which plays host to the character was the first channel to reach a million subscribers in Youtube history in April 2009.
The two male members of N-Dubz Dappy and Fazer will be helping police in an ongoing rape investigation.
Frequent N-Dubz DJ Junior Edwards, 22, aka DJ Maze has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
Edwards was with British rap stars Dappy and Fazer on the night the attack took place and are understood to be co-operating fully with police to help solve the case.
N-Dubz manager Jonathan Shalit has been keen to state: “The three members of N-Dubz are a hundred percent not involved in the rape itself.
The DJ was arrested by Lincolnshire police before being released on bail, and is due to appear in court on 15 February.
Edwards is being treated as the only suspect and has alladgedly been told by the N-Dubz manager to stay away from teh group until all the charges have been dropped.
The group have been busy on their christmas tour which began on 17 November, featuring songs from the Uncle B and Against All Odds albums.
Amy Winehouse’s protégé Dionne Broomfield,13, continues to take big steps towards what it seems is inevitable stardom.
Broomfield who is Amy Winehouse’s God Daughter has a number of high profile interviews lined up in America over the coming months to promote her new album “Introducing Dionne Broomfield“.
Dionne attends the highly acclaimed Voxbox singing school in Camden, North London will fly to the US in the summer to be under the tutelage of Seth Riggs whose students have included Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Ray Charles.
British rapper Chipmunk, 18, seems to have got his life back on track after last weeks suicidal comments. The North London recording artist posted on Twitter saying: “I wanna die” and “Is suicide easy.”
The rap artist was catapulted to fame earlier this year, and has enjoyed recent success in the charts with his track Oopsy Daisyreaching number one in the UK charts.
Chipmunk is alledged to have been working 18 hours a day at times and used this week as a time for entertainment and rest.
Chipmunk spoke this week and said: “I’m on a trip back to normaility. I’m in good health and it’s all good.”
If there’s one thing Jay-Z and Liam Gallagher already have in common its animosity towards Noel Gallagher, brother of Liam. Contention emerged in April 2008 when Noel said it would be “wrong” to book Jay-Z as a headliner for Glastonbury.
The result was Jay-Z covering the Oasis hit Wonderwallto open the show before quite simply blowing away the audience with a string of underground and already commercially successful tracks.
Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis hailed the show as a great success and little has been heard about the matter since.
On August 29th however Noel,42, released a statement on the Oasis website saying the was quitting the band and couldn’t work with Liam,36, a day longer.
Rumors have since emerged that Snoop Dogg plans to work with Noel Gallagher, and Jay-Z weigned in this week saying he wants to work with Liam.
Jay said:”When I teamed up with Linkin Park nobody expected it to work, but we made a success of it, the same could happen with Liam.”
Mr Carter added:”When you have two artists like us in a room just throwing about ideas you come up with something brilliant fairly easily.”
The Artic Monkeys will be going on an arena tour later this month and frontman Alex Turner has admitted to having flown over to Japan to see Beyonce live in concert.
The 23 year old had never been to an arena concert before and over the past month has also been to see Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue.
Alex said: “Ive never been to a gig in an arena before, apart from WWF wrestling when I was six, but that doesn’t really count.”
Alex Turner admitted to picking up some tips from Kylie especially and noted that he liked the way she took requests from the audience, and he would be doing the same.
The Artic Monkeys had been experiencing some problems while playing at Festivals such as Reading and Leeds. Fans complained as the Artics left out some of their favorite songs such as Mardy Bum from the show.
The group have been active since 2002 and consists of Andy Nicholson, Matthew Helders and Alex Turner who all attended Stocksbridge High School along with Turner’s next door neighbour Jamie Cook.
