Last week, dfwgator said:
"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."
Excellent prognostication. According to the sales website listed in post #1, the Chicks sold approximately 110,000 in their second week, after moving over 520,000 their first week. That's a drop of around 80%.
Of course, they will still be number one on the Billboard charts, but I don't think anything new was released last week. This week Ice Cube has his first album in a long time, while Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, and the New Cars (with Todd Rundgren replacing Ric Ocasek as lead vocalist) all have debuts this week. Still, it was a smart move by the Chicks to push their debut back so they wouldn't have to compete with Rascal Flats and Toby Keith in April, or the Red Hot Chili Peppers in early May.
Expect the media to trumpet the Chicks being #1 again, but to convienently leave out the sales totals. To be honest, I expected them to go platinum in 3-4 weeks, and have 2 million in sales after 7 to 9 weeks, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen if they don't get on the radio. It should be interesting to find out how their concert ticket sales are going, as well.
Yes, schadenfreude is alive and well in my house.
I don't think I've ever the Dixie Chicks do a song, but I've heard original versions of some of their songs. I tend to shy away from Nashville hit-machine/image conscious type artists.
The concert is bombing. Most venues have been on sale since Saturday, the only venue so far to sell out is the first one in London, where the incident happened, it only seats 2500. In contrast, their last tour sold out in one day.
Their *ahem* success on the charts is manufactured and driven by people who have admittingly bought several copies of the cd as a "statement". Yet another angle the MSM refuses to discuss.
The funnny thing is, Sony is making a mint off the chicks with libs buying their cd and using them as political pawns, while the chicks are losing millions from lack of sales of concert tickets. Poetic Justice!
The Cars without Mr. Paulina Porizkova? That just ain't right.
193,000 with 77% reporting in.
How are the Billboard chart numbers calculated?