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Sunday Sun – Published 10/01/2010

CHERYL FANS IN FIGHT FOR HER RIGHT TO TOP SPOT

SHE may have vowed to “fight for this love” but fans of pop princess Cheryl Cole are fighting for chart success.

Newcastle-born Cheryl was disappointed in May when her last single with Girls Aloud became the band’s first ever song to miss out on a spot in the UK top 10.

But now thousands of devoted fans are planning to push Untouchable to the top of the charts.

In a rapidly-growing internet campaign, some 5,600 Facebook users have pledged to buy the song to make sure that Girls Aloud’s record of success remains unbroken.

Beckee Radley, of Blackburn, Lancashire and Aoife Malone, of Ireland, both 16, are behind the campaign.

Beckee said: “Some people think that the single didn’t get enough promotion and some think it was not the right track to release.

“Whatever it may have been, now fans want to recover that top 10 record by getting the song to the place it should have been at the top of the charts.

“The objective is to get Untouchable back in the top 10. To do this, we need people to download the song or its remixes from any download site that counts towards the chart before February 7.”

Untouchable, the 21st single from Cheryl and bandmates Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh, reached number 11, breaking a string of consecutive top 10 hits that ran back to their debut single in 2002.

The campaign has received the backing of Girls Aloud’s record label, bandmate Nadine Coyle and celebrities Jonathan Ross, Liz McClarnon and Lisa Mafia, who have all shown their support on Twitter.

Cheryl first found fame in the band Girls Aloud after winning her place through Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.

The group’s debut single Sound of the Underground peaked at number one in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the 2002 Christmas number one.

Since 2003, Girls Aloud’s singles I’ll Stand by You, Walk This Way, and The Promise have charted at number one.

In 2009, it was announced that Girls Aloud would partake in a year-long hiatus to pursue solo projects, but would reunite for a new studio album this year.

To support the campaign to see Girls Aloud’s record of chart successes continue, download the song or its remixes from any download site that counts towards the chart before February 6 at 11:59pm.

Digital Spy – Published 02/01/09

Girls Aloud fans launch top ten campaign

Girls Aloud fans have launched an online campaign to restore the group’s record-breaking chart run.

‘Untouchable’ – the five-piece’s last single before embarking on solo projects – stalled at number eleven in May, becoming the first of their 21 singles to miss out on a top ten placing.

However, fans of the girlband have now set up a Rage Against The Machine-style Facebook group to correct the blemish.

“The objective is to get ‘Untouchable’ back on the top 10,” the campaign’s organisers explained. “To do this, we are going to choose a specific week when we will proceed to download the song and/or its remixes from any download site that count towards the chart.”

However, they urged fellow fans not to act too hastily in showing their support, adding: “DON’T start downloading the song until we choose the week. If you download it now it won’t have any effect. We all need to download the song at once on the same week.”

US rockers Rage Against The Machine beat Joe McElderry to the top of this year’s Christmas singles chart after an anti-X Factor Facebook group was launched.

The Sun – Published 04/01/2010

Inspired by the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE campaign, GIRLS ALOUD fans want people to download the girls’ last single, Untouchable, to get it into the Top Ten.
It is the band’s only tune not to reach that lofty positon. I’d rather spend 79p on fig rolls…

Popjustice – Published 04/01/2010

First up today we have ‘Untouchable Top 10′, a campaign with the modest aim of getting Girls Aloud’s ‘Untouchable’ – the band’s first single not to reach the Top 10 – to at least Number 10 in the hit parade. As you may know, ‘Untouchable’ was the single that broke Girls Aloud’s run of consecutive Top 10 hits, so getting it into the Top 10 now would extend that all-important run of Top 10s to 21.

Nadine Coyle has acknowledged the campaign, but the support doesn’t stop there. From the campaign’s Facebook page: “Girls Aloud’s record label Fascination & a whole host of celebs including Jonathan Ross, Girls Can’t Catch, Liz McClarnon, Sinitta and Lisa Maffia have all shown their support for the campaign on Twitter”.

Amazing.

Sadly the logic behind this is rooted in bollocks: fans use the band’s unbroken run of twenty Top 10 singles as proof of the high quality of Girls Aloud’s output, but by using this campaign to effectively hype the chart those same fans are proving (or admitting) that a Top 10 hit doesn’t actually have anything to do with a song’s quality. Basically, by extending the band’s run of consecutive Top 10 hits to 21, fans are making the achievements of those first twenty singles irrelevant.

The campaign’s Facebook group membership is currently just over 4000 and the ‘download week’ for ‘Untouchable’ is at the end of this month. Could they pull it off?