Band Aid 30: Watch the official video of new song that raised £1m in just five minutes

'Do They Know It's Christmas?' premiered on The X Factor last night

Jess Denham

Band Aid 30 raised £1 million in just five minutes after the new single debuted on last night’s X Factor results show.

Organiser Sir Bob Geldof praised the public’s “extraordinary” response to the revised version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, which this year addresses the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
Bono’s controversial 1984 line, “Tonight thank god it’s them instead of you” has been altered to “Tonight we’re reaching out and touching you”.
“It’s gone manic,” Geldof told BBC Radio 4. “That’s the digital age. We promoted the single on X Factor. Simon Cowell gave us five minutes of the show last night.
“Within four or five minutes of leaving we had a million quid. From what we’re seeing now from iTunes it’s gone bonkers. The pre-orders of the thing were ridiculous.”
The official Band Aid 30 video opens with some harrowing footage of dying Ebola victims being carried out of their homes by doctors before focusing on the Notting Hill recording studio where a host of big name acts gathered on Saturday.