Thinking about it, I can't see it selling too many physical copies, as isn't HMV about the only place you can buy CD singles these days? And when did a lot of people last buy any kind of CD single?

Until this morning RATM sold only 90k according to facebook source which is not exactly "stellar" considering 800k people in the group.

The group's hit 'Killing In The Name' sold a further 92,000 copies yesterday, bringing its total sales so far this week to 175,000

The BBC faces embarrassment after an expletive-laden song was broadcast to more than two million morning radio listeners.

A live performance of Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name was aired on Radio 5live Breakfast shortly before 9am.

The alt-rock band had chatted to the show on the campaign to get the song to the Christmas number one spot.

The group were then invited to perform the 1992 hit - which is rivalling X Factor winner Joe McElderry for the festive top spot - live on air.

But minutes into the performance, lead singer Zach de la Rocha could be heard repeatedly screaming the song's refrain: "F*** you, I won't do what you tell me".

The song was eventually interrupted by desperate host Shelagh Fogarty shouting: "Get rid of it".

She then explained: "Sorry. We needed to get rid of that because it suddenly turned into something we weren't expecting.

"Well, we were expecting it, and had asked them not to do it, but they did it anyway, so buy Joe's record."

Stuttering co-host Nicky Campbell later admitted being too "engaged" with the track.

A BBC spokesman later said: "5 live breakfast featured a live broadcast of the song Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine.

"We had spoken to the band repeatedly beforehand and they had agreed not to swear.

"When they did we faded the band out and apologised immediately to anyone who was offended."

The error occurred less than 24 hours after George Michael had uttered the f-word during Chris Evan's drivetime show on Radio 2.

Evans, who is soon to replace the retiring legend Terry Wogan in the station's breakfast slot, "sincerely apologised" to listeners for any offence the singer caused.

BBC radio shows have faced closer scrutiny following the well-publicised phone scandal involving Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand last year.

Many live programmes have been forced to prepare their output after a record number of complaints, despite the original lewd prank calls to Andrew Sachs being pre-recorded before airing in October 2008.

But minutes into the performance, lead singer Zach de la Rocha could be heard repeatedly screaming the song's refrain: "F*** you, I won't do what you tell me".

The song was eventually interrupted by desperate host Shelagh Fogarty shouting: "Get rid of it".

She then explained: "Sorry. We needed to get rid of that because it suddenly turned into something we weren't expecting.

"Well, we were expecting it, and had asked them not to do it, but they did it anyway, so buy Joe's record."

1) They really should have been expecting it and if they were, why wasn't someone sat there with their finger on the 'fade' slider?
2) That last comment could very well be seen as the BBC endorsing a commercial product and will get them in if anything even more trouble than a sweary rock band.

Jon

......... I am going to buy another two later this week.

D'ya ever get the feeling some people take things too seriously?
Dress it up however you like, for some of us it's just amusing to put a sweary rock song at number one instead of one of Cowell's mass produced pop songs.

More money than sense springs to mind.