Posted on 04/03/2003 9:17:46 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Slip-up causing slip on charts for Chicks
04/03/2003
The Dixie Chicks' sales slide remains steady but hardly dramatic three weeks after lead singer Natalie Maines angered country-music fans with an anti-Bush comment she made to a London concert audience.
Home, the Chicks' Grammy-winning current album, sold 51,000 copies last week, which represents a 28 percent dip when compared with the previous week's 71,000 total. The first week after Ms. Maines' remark, it sold 124,000 copies. The disc remains at No. 1 on Billboard 's country-albums chart but has fallen out of the top 10 on the pop list.
The radio boycott of "Travelin' Soldier" on country stations and "Landslide" on the pop dial has, however, seriously impacted both songs. "Soldier," which had struck a chord with listeners because of its war-related subject matter, is already off Billboard's country-singles chart. "Landslide" plunged from No. 10 to No. 43 on the pop list and took a No. 1 to No. 11 dive on the adult-contemporary chart.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina, where the Chicks open their U.S. tour May 1 at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, an alternative-to-the-Dixie Chicks concert headlined by the Marshall Tucker Band has been planned for the same night. The gig will serve as a protest event for those banning the Chicks' music.
E-mail mtarradell@dallasnews.com
Because they had sympathy for the devil.
Reports indicate that the concert was prompted at their satanic magesty's request and will be held following a beggar's banquet. : )
LOL ! Thanks. That is one of the most clever names I've seen them called . . .
What are Daschle and Gore gonna do with all those CDs??
"Landslide." That sounds like how Saddam wins his elections. :O)
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