Fans of both acts are battling it out on social networking website Facebook to get them to number one in the second week of February.
Girls Aloud fans want the group’s single Untouchable to top the charts. The song, which was released in April last year, was the group’s only single not to top the charts.
But a Smiths tribute band, The Smiths Indeed, have started a rival campaign to give the Mancunian band their first ever British number one on the 25th anniversary of one of their most successful records. The tribute act want How Soon Is Now to reach number one to celebrate the February 1985 release of Meat Is Murder, the band’s most successful album.
The group backing Girls Aloud is more than twice as big, with 7,333 fans.
But The Smiths group was only launched on Tuesday and has so far attracted 3,127 members – nearly 1,000 a day.
The campaign has been backed by ex-Smiths drummer Mike Joyce.
Liverpool-based Mr Wendelen said: “I don’t rate Girls Aloud’s music at all.
“It is manufactured – it doesn’t come from anywhere, it doesn’t say anything. If anyone deserves a UK number one it is The Smiths.
“Their contribution to British culture is outstanding.
“The Smiths’ music was created out of a need to say something real through music and that is what we need now in the charts.”
How Soon Is Now is considered by many to be the band’s best song, but was released as a B-side and never reached number one.
Mr Wendelen said: “It would be fantastic to get it to number one to celebrate the Smiths and their enormous impact on music.”
The Smiths formed in Manchester in 1982 but never released a single that charted higher than at number 10 in Britain.
The top spot will go to the single bought or downloaded the most times between January 31 and February 6.
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‘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.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a193339/girls-aloud-fans-launch-top-ten-campaign.html
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