Good News for the Americans

I don't know to what extent this news has crossed the Atlantic, but, after four or so years of the winner of a nationwide British singing contest winning the accolade of Christmas No. 1, Rage Against the Machine's 1992 single "Killing in the Name" has won it this year. For fear you cannot believe this, and are looking through the sentence for evidence of misreading: Rage Against the Machine are 2009's Christmas No. 1. The song is being played on teen pop stations at 9am in the morning. This is surely the best Christmas ever.