Posted on 06/03/2006 11:05:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
This is my first vanity, so please indulge me.
Dixie Chicks tour tickets went on sale today to the public in many market and it's starting to look a disaster, especially in the Red States.
There were initial indications that internet pre-sale ticket sales were going badly last week, but this confirms the news.
A review of seat availabilities on Ticketmaster indicate first-day and pre-sale ticket sales for the portly traitors are:
Detroit-Bad
Pittsburgh-Disaster
Philadelphia-Bad
Boston-Almost Sold Out
Wash. DC.-Selling Well
Chicago-Selling Well
Minneapolis-Bad
Fargo-Meltdown Disaster
Glendale, AZ-Bad
Omaha-Disaster
Denver-Disaster
Dallas-Disaster
Nashville-Meltdown Disaster
Tampa-Meltdown Disaster
Sunrise, FL-Meltdown Disaster
Atlanta-Selling Okay
Tacoma-Disaster
More venues go on-sale in the next week. California will probably go well for the cows, but the rest of the U.S. seems to be saying that the Chicks will be playing to half-empty arenas.
Dixie Blimps are back on tour? I may go if they play warm-up for Buddy Holly.
Their promoters are in panic mode right now. It'll be funny to see how the liberal media spin the Chicks tour debacle in the Red States.
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."
If there was a demand for them in the sates, trust me, they would be here. Obviosuly there is no demand. LOL~
Their last tour was sold out in a day. ROFLMAO!
Dixie Chicks generate 'disappointing' show sales
Only about half the tickets to the Dixie Chicks Oct. 3 GEC show were sold in the first weekend tix went on sale, arena chief Hugh Lombardi confirmed yesterday.
Half-sold is usually a pretty good opening weekend of ticket sales for an arena show, but back in 2003, the Chicks nearly sold out a GEC date in the first weekend of sales.
The story isn't playing out just in Nashville. About 20 Dixie Chicks shows went on sale this past weekend, and a source close to the tour called nationwide sales "disappointing."
Still, there were bright spots. Toronto, for instance, added a second show.
Neither a Chicks' publicist nor a publicist for their record label could be reached yesterday.
Slow concert ticket sales were a little surprising for some because the Chicks' just-released album, Taking the Long Way, has been No. 1 in sales for all genres for the past two weeks, selling a total of about 775,000 copies so far.
But others weren't surprised at all. Wade Jessen, Billboard magazine's director of country charts, pointed to the fact that the Chicks' two new radio singles both failed to break into the top 30 on country charts.
"There's absolutely no radio penetration on anything for this new album," Wade said. "Here's an act off the radio and without a studio album for three years, so I can't say that's entirely surprising" that they have slow concert ticket sales.
Still, the GEC expects the Nashville show will sell out, in part because it's still four months away
THESE PROS ARE OVER-RATED. THE AMATEURS IRONICALLY ARE THE ONES WHO WILL BE PACKING THEM IN...
Imagine that?! They trash the most popular country stars in the country and expect to welcomed?! Hello, Dixie witches. I know you think you are special but even the "View" hates you now since you trashed them too. This after they gave you a start when you couldn't buy breakfast.
That is not correct Melas. The "Twister" tried to slip it in and got their hand slapped.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/music/14682447.htm?source=rss&channel=kansascity_music
On the way home from work today (in Dallas) I heard during the news segment on an "Adult Contemporary" station that concert ticket sales for the Chicks in Dallas were very slow and it looked like the concert would be canceled.
Looks like thats a bet youd loose.
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