Christmas Number 1

Originally Posted by Spiderman

i saw somewhere (cos i cant get away from this mind-numbing topic anywhere) that one of hem was giving profits to charity. Well Daz, give it all to charity! If it costs 29p to but just how much goes to charity anyway i wonder?

RATM were sending their profits to charity. I guess, being an old song thats done the rounds for ages and probably covered all its production costs a few times over, that there wasnt much expenses to cover

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by TazDaz

I didn't buy into the charts wars - not exactly rebellious doing what some band tells you to do...

It wasn't RATM asking you to buy it

And all the profits are being donated to Shelter, the charity for the homeless - they've raised ~£70,000 so far...

[Spiderman]

oic, i'd love to know how much the charity gets at the end of the day after all the other "costs" the record company will take

well heres a though to mill over
does this now mean that a facebook campain could make anyone number 1
eg if we got the worst song in the world of with some tone deaf guy singing it (im thinking fizz ) could we make him number 1

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

And all the profits are being donated to Shelter, the charity for the homeless - they've raised ~£70,000 so far...

Where did you see this? I thought it was people opted to donate to Shelter seperately but as part of the FB group?

its on the voice interveiw on bbc

[Spiderman]

Quick search reveals that its people who are in fact giving and not the band. http://england.shelter.org.uk/news/d...er_of_facebook!

i stand to be corrected about the band tho, as i say i know f all about this.

Shelter is a very worthy cause tho and something ive been giving to for years myself, so nice one the general public. Just a shame they will all forget about it in a few weeks time tho and it takes the hatred of a tv programme to make people care about the plight of the homeless for a minute.

"some of our proceeds, the windfall of proceeds from this will be going to Shelter"

Quote from the interview. So guess it's good they will be giving something to the Charity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiQPqmYE1A

[Spiderman]

like i say, i'd like to see just how much compared to how much the producers etc took home.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

like i say, i'd like to see just how much compared to how much the producers etc took home.

Considering the artists will be taking home a few percent of the profit to begin with I'd wager not a lot, but at least it's something...