Posted on 05/31/2006 1:20:18 PM PDT by balch3
Despite a cool reception from country radio, the Dixie Chicks returned to No. 1 on the pop and country charts with their first album since publicly criticizing the president three years ago.
The album "Taking the Long Way" took the top spot on country albums chart and the Billboard 200 overall chart -- which are based on sales rather than radio airplay -- with 526,000 units sold in its first full week.
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I guess this news isn't such a big deal, but it's still aggravating.
Breaking news???
What is MoveOn.org gonna do with 500,000 Dixie Chicks CDs?
Unlike Kieth, their CD will be in the bargain bin by the end of the month.
Damn, that's too bad. I was hoping that those 3 hate-Ameica, hate-Bush piggies would really suffer at the cash register. Skanks.
Mr. Keith has more class in his little finger than all three of those broads have in their whole bodies combined.
...maybe the shadow company that bought all those Hillary books can store them in their warehouse.
Just another demonstration of the sad, sad times we live in for music and artistic performance in general. Where's today's Jimi Hendrix, or today's Eric Clapton (60s/70s version)? If they are out there, the music industry sure ain't going to let you know about it.
they will suffer if concert ticket sales are low...that's where most of the money is made nowadays.
Coasters.
What a surprise: $100 million worth of free fawning MSM publicity results in big first week sales, which are still a third lower than the debut week of their last studio album, a fact that will probably somehow go unreported amid all the heroic Chick hoopla. See what the sales look like in three weeks, after all the people who are only buying it to stick it to Bush have their copies to use as coasters and have gone back to listening to rap, death metal or lesbian new-age trance music.
I will say that this CD is about 20X better than Neil Young's pathetic anti-Bush rant/album, but the reality is that it will be forever collecting dust within two weeks in goth households across the nation
they will suffer if concert ticket sales are low...that's where most of the money is made nowadays.
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They are playing somewhere near me, and the show is sold out.
Thing is, these gals are going to be the darlings of the Anti-Bush crowd. But once the President leaves office and/or the war is over, they will be without a significant fan base. Their best fans, the country/western folks, won't take them back.
Toby Keith is not supposed to be a mainstreamed, crossover pop artist like the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain.
Toby Keith's target demographic is one-quarter the size of the Dixie Chicks' but he still gets more than half their sales.
Cover of Time Magazine, interviews on numerous TV shows...how they not sell that many blank CD's with the push by the leftwing media.
But I have a prediction: Next week they will be swamped by the American Idol CD with the twelve finalists on air performamces.
Let them schedule a concert in Dallas, Houston, Memphis, Nashville...and the line queing up to purchase tickets won't fill a sub-compact car.
After this posting, I promise never to mention them again
That statement doesn't tell me the most important data: where the venue is located and how large it is.
Plenty of bands that couldn't sell out a stadium in the South or Midwest if their lives depended upon it can sell out dozens of clubs on the coasts on a single tour.
*****Where's today's Jimi Hendrix, or today's Eric Clapton (60s/70s version)? If they are out there, the music industry sure ain't going to let you know about it.*****
So you cite an antiwar protestor, Jimi? I'm joking of course, I love both those guys. But if you like good, moving guitar riffs, you should check out the following dudes:
Joe Satriani, John Petrucci (band: Dream Theater), Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, or Stanley Jordan. Thats just some of my favorite comtemporary technical guitarists.
Crosseyed chicks creep me out.....
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