Joe McElderry has toppled Rage Against The Machine from the top of the UK singles chart. The winner of X Factor, covered the song ‘The Climb’ which was orginally sung by Miley Cyrus. The single has sold 160,000 copies during the last seven days and it is now on target to be one of the biggets selling singles of 2009, with about 650,000 copies being sold so far.
After the success of an internet campaign and reigning as the UK’s Christmas Number One, Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ slipped one place to number two. Martin Talbot, official Charts Company Managaing Director explained, “The race for the Christms number one was the most exciting many of us can remember – but, having secured his own number one, McElderry can top his year off with another honour and has an excellent chance of making the year-end Top Five by next week.”
As things currently stand, Lady GaGa’s track, ‘Poker Face’ is the biggest selling single of the year with the sales currently standing at about 870,000 copies. In at fifth place is ‘In For The Kill’ by LaRoux which has sold 660,000 copies.
Meanwhile, in the album chart, ‘Crazy Love’ by Michael Buble has become the Number One album after leapfrogging Susan Boyle’s ‘I Dreamed A Dream’. According to Official Charts Company, ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ is the biggest selling album of 2009.
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