Seece said:
Kantor said: When did everybody start hating The X Factor, exactly? |
20 million watched the X factor final, about 100k people bought RATM in protest against x factor (sold 500k or so but then some people bought about 20 copies)
So I would say the vast majority like x factor
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No they didn't. UK chart rules are that if someone is found downloading or buying multiple copies of the same song then those sales are disqualified. If someone bought 5+ copies of RATM, then the copies should have been disqualified. I bought 2 and that was pushing it.
And if you want to talk ratios 20,000,000 watched the X-factor final and 450,000 copies of the climb sold, that's a ratio of (people watching to singles sold) 44.4 to 1.
RATM on the other hand had a group of 1,000,000 people and 500,000 singles sold. Let's say (rather generously) that each person in the group bought 5 copies so that those 500,000 are brought down to 100,000 people who have downloaded, that still gives a ratio of 10:1.
44.4:1 compared to 10:1*. These figures show that RATM fans are much more dedicated to their cause, RATM fans want the music industry to change, a lot of them are quite passionate about their music.
Meh, I don't care.
(*And these figures are distorted imo because I believe the singles per person for RATM are maybe 2 or perhaps 3 at best.)