Rage Against The Machine have won the battle for Christmas Number One ahead of The X Factor‘s Joe McElderry.

‘Killing In The Name’, first released in 1992 and backed by an enthusiastic online Facebook campaign by fans, beat his cover of Miley Cyrus‘s ‘The Climb’ by more than 50,000 sales to reach the summit of the UK singles chart.

The track sold more than 500,000 copies in the week leading up to the end of business yesterday (December 19).