It will be interesting to see how much sales drop next week. Also, tickets for their upcoming concert tour have begun to go on sale. Here in Kansas City, the country radio stations usually put all concert dates on their websites – no mention of the August 20 Dixie Chicks show. I wonder if liberals will plop down 50-75 more bucks to make America think the Chicks are forgiven.
Ping!
Note - this is not a ping list - just a one-time shot to let you know about the Dixie Chicks first-week sales. If you care.
Keep on freepin'.
A Dixie Chick tune came on the local D.C. station yesterday. I hit the button before the third note rang out.
That accounts for 50 sales. What about the rest?
Just because WE don't like them doesn't mean most of their fans care about their politics. When you've sold as many albums for so long as the Dixie Chicks have, you don't need country radio--all those people who loved their previous albums are going to know the album's coming out and get it.
There's just no need for Dummie-like conspiracy theories (I'm not accusing you of being a DUmmie). It's not like they are a new band no one's heard about, and those magazine and newspaper stories will get the message out even more effectively than radio stations. And since they're playing on Adult-Contemporary radio they will more than make up for their lost country fans with new listeners of syrupy glop like Celine Dion.
There's no mystery here, and no conspiracy. They're one of the best-selling groups around, and that's all there is to it.
Looks like their 3rd album has sold 28% less than their 2nd album and their live album has sold 84% less than their 3rd album.
One number that is missing and which would be an interesting comparison is how many copies of the live album were sold in the first week of its release.
And I would venture to guess that 2/3 of those no longer exist, be it by fire or paper shredder.
Everybody that wanted to buy the CD bought it this week, sales will drop by at least 80% next week. It won't break a million in sales.
515,000 useful idiots.
Michael Moore tried to make people believe the Chicks didn't pay a price for mouthing off. The hard statistics made a (bigger) liar out of him. Click here for a March 2003 thread I authored.
What would be interesting is if they would compare the boost that Kanye West got after being on the cover of Time versus the Chicks.
They're also being pushed by MSN...meaning NBC. I had taped the episode of Medium and watched it last night. I have to admit the end was a beautiful song and right before the credits rolled, there was something that said the song was by the Dixie Chicks from their new album and you could go to MSN and order it there...WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD OF MEDIA CONGLOMERATES!
Mostly from dedicated fans, and new Leftists "friends".
This was before they started ridiculing their fan base and poking fun at country music.[marketing geniuses they aint]
The next album[if there is one] will be the true test.Their old fan base will not like the new sound as much,and won't come back.Young "sassy" girls have already moved on to acts like Miranda Lambert.Their new "friends" in the rock and VH-1 world will ignore it.
Then the Chicks will know the true nature of what they have brought upon themselves.
Natalie will probably be alright, she comes from a music family and will somehow hang around.The sisters are toast unless they make major amends.I have been surprised they stood so solidly beside Natalie, but, Natalie was their meal ticket.So it was lose ,lose for them.
I would like to see some smart freeper who knows about such things to make a graphic comparing their album sales pre-insult to now.
Their last album sold 780,000 copies in its first week. So this means raw sales were down 275,000 copies or 34%.
So bottom line, it looks like they lost a bit more than a third of their audience. Not bad.
It will hit them harder on their concert tour. Internet pre-sales of their concert tour tickets have been weak and regular sales begin in the next week or so.
They are definitely on their way down.
I saw the video of their new song when I was flipping past CMT .
If anyone is into whiny, insipid songs, they would have liked it very much.
If anyone wants to hear the Ditzy Twits whining away, they'll be on Larry King tonight.
who buys CDs anymore?
It's all about the IPod now :)
Besides nearly 59 million people voted for Kerry. They aren't even at 1% of that yet.
What I find amusing is they claimed to be done with country radio, yet ads for their upcoming concert is all over the 2 country stations here.
Just like every other liberal moonbat.. they want it both ways.
The spin for the Red State tour debacle is starting...
"Due to the overwhelming demand for the Dixie Chicks in Canada, England and Australia, this concert date must be rerouted and the on-sale will be postponed until the fall. Check back to the Savvis Center website for more information as it becomes available."
Drudge is posting their tour is cancelling several venues due to lack of ticket sells.