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After a Facebook campaign designed to block another X Factor chart-topper, rock band Rage Against The Machine emerges as the winner of the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas No. 1 slot against previous X Factor champions.

The band’s single, “Killing In The Name”, sold just over 500,000 downloads, beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s “The Climb” by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot.

Rage singer Zack de la Rocha said the band would perform a free concert in the UK in 2010 to celebrate their chart win.

Watch and listen to Rage Against The Machine’s BBC radio interview and performance of “Killing In The Name Of” on the show 5Live, December 17, 2009, before the BBC cut transmission.