Today's top pop news stories

Rage beat X-Factor by over 50,000 copies!Rage Against The Machine were tonight revealed as the first ever UK download-only Christams number one. RATM sold a stggering 502, 672 copies while X-Factor winner/loser sold 450, 838 copies.Congratulations to RATM and a giant high-five to each of you who bought your copy. Talk about ...

Or put another way: They hate Canada's annual seal slaughter, and have joined other critical darlings like Perez Hilton and Brody Jenner for a series of PETA spots to call an end to this horrid, fashion-industry practice, in time for the Olympics. Watch AnCo's plea at peta.org.

Pixie Lott gets raunchy with female pal, Barlow to work with Dizzee, Sugababes split update – your music gossip stop

Whether you're a fan of Pearl Jam's latest, Backspacer, is immaterial; if you're seeing the band, you're likely to get swept into the guaranteed three-hour communal freakout that is a rite of attendance. These are fans that battle the band for decibel supremacy. As Matthew Fluxblog wrote in reviewing PJ's stop at MSG last year, the "unanimity of...