Balls...
I didn't actually want it to get to number 1 :lol:
The problem is... Now you have a lot of people unpleasantly crowing on about it. That's fine, if there's substance.
However, we all know there isn't. We all know that this is a flash in the pan, a single bright burn that will die away as quickly as it started.
Next year, there will be another "campaign", but nobody will support it, as it's been done, and it actually goes against the idea of this campaign (which was deliberately ironic from end to end).
So next year, there'll be an unsuccessful campaign, and everyone will say "well, see, it really was a complete load of crap". So all the celebrations and crowing now, will (rightly) be thrown back in everyone's face.
It would have been better to come in second, and say "we made a stand, we made the effort - but obviously there was as much support as there was for X-Factor, fair play, everyone was right."
Next year, at least all of this would have been taken into account, and it will have made changes, but much more subtly. Next year, it's just going to be an absolute nightmare. A thousand Facebook groups of "such and such for number 1, tell RATM to **** off" kind of thing. "Bring back our Christmas number 1's".
Winning was the worse outcome for Rage - just you wait until next December...