According to figures released this morning by the Official Charts Company, Rage Against The Machine are still on course to bag the Christmas Number One.The band’s track, Killing In The Name, has sold a grand total of 253,476 copies this week, where as X Factor winner Joe McElderry has only sold 216,795, despite his single being released on CD yesterday."We've got half a million singles going out [to shops],” X Factor head honcho Simon Cowell told the Daily Star yesterday. “Joe will be Number One." However given McElderry's poor performance at retail yesterday, we doubt it Simon. In related news, Rage Against The Machine performed Killing In The Name live on BBC 5live this morning. But, despite being asked to play a radio friendly version of the track, the band insisted on running through the song’s ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ refrain.Frontman Zack de la Rocha also used the opportunity to savage Simon Cowell.“Simon seems to have profited greatly off humiliating people on live television and has a unique position of capturing the attention of people on television, but also the airwaves,” he said. “We see this as a necessary break of that control.""People are tired of being spoon fed one schmaltzy ballad after another," added Tom Morello. "They want to take back their own charts. “We're honoured they've chosen our song to be the rebel anthem to topple The X Factor monopoly,” added guitarist Tom Morello. "We wrote Killing In The Name in a small industrial slum in Los Angeles. The X Factor song is written by a cabal of overpaid songwriters to shove the schmaltzy business down your throats.”You can listen to the full interview below: