Does anybody really care anymore??

Christmas number one.

What of it?

I've recently seen a group circulating Facebook that aims to get a load of people to try and get Rage Against the Machine to Christmas number one this year. (How they plan to do this, I have no idea, with no specific song, and I can bet nobody that joins it will actually buy a Rage single) Why? 'Err... because it will well prove that nobody cares about X-factor and it will stop that being Christmas number one.' Question though, does anybody actually pay attention to what gets the number one spot over the festive season anymore?
Yes, X-factor does seem to dominate the sales at that point in the year, but that's just down to some slightly clever marketing, and the 'coincidence' that it finishes in time for Christmas. And obviously that gets thousands and thousands of viewers, who go out and buy the single, so it inevitably gets to number one. Case in point? Oh only the last however many years it has been on.
Now obviously there are a lot of people who don't like the show, and therefore don't like that the winner manages to sell records. But making a group on Facebook to try and get a different song/artist at number one seems a bit over the top. Especially considering that I could bet most people don't actually know what is number one on any given week, unless they looked it up.
So all in all, who cares? If the winner of X-Factor gets to number one again, which they probably will, so what? Seeing as the singles market is rapidly in decline, I think it's time everyone grew up and realised that, in all honesty, they wouldn't otherwise give a fuck.