If artists in the 1980s laid the creative groundwork for charitable music collaborations, and the social web of the 2000s is the world’s first massive resource for crowd-sourced content, then isn’t it time we had a crossover single created for charity by people on the social web? Thank goodness for Chartjackers, because that’s what they’re all about. The British internet celebrity foursome is bent on creating the world’s first million-songwriter collaboration using only the internet as its drawing board. And as it turns out, the plan is working—the #chartjackers topic has trended for a few days, and the BBC is producing a documentary about the band’s quest.
While we’re fully behind the Chartjackers’ mission, (anything charitable is pretty much fair game,) we’re still a little skeptical about whether the artists can match the pure emotion oozing out of Band-Aid’s timeless holiday single, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas.’ Watch the video here and you’ll see what we mean.
