Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of’ has been confirmed as the UK’s favourite Christmas Number One of all time.Organised in partnership with Nine Eight Books, the poll was launched to celebrate the 70th Christmas chart battle and The Official Christmas No.1 Singles Book.
The book is a guide to 70 years of Christmas Number Ones, with a double-page spread dedicated to every song.After three weeks of voting, the final came down to Spice Girls’ 1996 hit ‘2 Become 1’ and Rage’s anthem ‘Killing In The Name Of’.
41,000 votes were counted and Rage Against The Machine ended up taking the crown with 51% of the vote.‘Killing In The Name Of’ became a surprise Christmas hit in 2009 after Jon and Tracy Morter set up a campaign to stop The.
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