Rage Against The Machine's politically charged and obscenity-laden 1992 anthem, "Killing In The Name," is at the center of a Facebook-based campaign to make the song Number One on the U.K.'s Christmas sales chart. According to the BBC, the goal is to beat out a cover of the Miley Cyrus hit "The Climb" by Joe McElderry, recent winner of The X Factor, the U.K. equivalent to American Idol. More than 750,000 people have signed onto the Facebook page, and initial sales figures show "Killing In The Name" ahead of "The Climb" by 65,000 copies.

Rage guitarist Tom Morello told BBC News that he found the campaign "heart-warming," adding, "The one thing about the X Factor show, much like our own American Idol, is . . . (it) puts forward a particular type of music which represents a particular kind of listener. There are a lot of people who don't feel represented by it and this Christmas in the U.K. they're having their say."

Morello is donating his royalties from sales of the Rage single to charity.

The numbers so far, however, were based on digital sales only. McElderry's single was expected to race past the Rage track when physical copies went on sale Wednesday (December 16th). X Factor and American Idol creator Simon Cowell told the Daily Star that "half a million singles" were going to stores.