Posted on 06/07/2006 12:11:31 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Dixie's Click on WUMB : As mentioned here in the last update, although local and national country radio stations may not be helping them much lately, but that isn't stopping Dixie Chicks from claiming a third # 1 album in their career and finding stations on the elsewhere on the dial who are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon. According WUMB 91.9FM's program director Brian Quinn, the UMass station is playing "Everybody Knows" and "I Hope" tracks. The station also hopes to have them live in the studio when their tour pulls into Boston in late July. Clear Channel's progressive talker WKOX AM 1200 is also promoting the TD Banknorth Garden show by the most successful female group ever with a ticket giveaway.
related: Local country radio sours on Chicks...not even mentioning concert on their site:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1639598/posts
Pond scum is pond scum. Period.
How is it possible for this "album" to be #1 when no one is playing their music except for a handful of very leftist radio stations? Don't that heve to have actual sales of the album for it to be #1? Or has the record label produced it under a new category such as "Politically Motivated Cheap Shot Music"?
If their album is the only one in that category, they only have to sell one to be #1!!
What are Dixie Chicks? The opposite of Rhode Island Reds? (pun intended)
Old Chinese proverb:"When your ship is sinking, it is not wise to grab an anchor."
With the Jaws of Life?
Almost. Rhode Island Reds are Patches and his locals.
Everywhere I turn, the MSM is putting on a full court promotional press for these stupid harlots. That Larry King show with them should be shown as entertainment in the state mental hospitals. It was better than cartoons.
I'd love to find a link to actual record sales. The RIAA site only shows if it is gold or platinum and the Billboard site only shows how it charted. If we knew the sales figures we could see how the Chicks are selling post Bush Bashing as compared to pre Bush Bashing. By saying their album debuted at #1 it's accentuating the positive but if their new album only sells 1 million copies while their other 2 sold 29 million then it's a huge loss. All the free publicity from Time magazine and the MSM helped jumpstart sales but it will be interesting to see if the album will continue to sell. Target also gave me another reason to stay away, first they kick out the Salvation Army now they promote DC albums and concert tour, bleh!
When my dad was sick, the doctor asked him the name of the VP. He had no idea. Neither did my sister. My dad turned out to have a brain tumor. My sister listened to country music. She never read a newspaper or heard the news.
There is a large segment of the American public who are completely clueless about politics. They can tell you the names of everyone on Survivor or American Idol but they don't know the name of the VP. They like the DC's old music so they buy their stuff.
Will they be paying taxes on the "legendary" sales numbers or the real ones?
Not even the local college 50 Watter is willing to play Not Ready To Make Nice. LOL!
Now, I like the Dixie Chick's music, and I happen to think Natalie Maines is cute as a button, but their politics have sunk them for good. Grabbing onto college stations and Air America is not going to get them out of this hole.
As far as I know, you never hear them singing a note in any other song that is not backing up a note sung by Maines, who has a great, strong voice. For good reason, I guess.
The tour is flopping in the Red States. The Chicks are starting to postpone concert dates that were originally scheduled because of poor ticket sales.
Here's the spin:
"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."
You gotta be kidding me. I would love to see that!
There it is. I'll be darned. High overseas demand, eh?
Kinda like leaches...
For example, John Cougar Mellencamp was considered an MTV bubblegum pop-act by the snobbish public radio camp (they were right for once), but once he started screeching yeehaws for socialist redistribution schemes, he became America's gritty rural poet.
Bruce Springsteen used to represent everything the brie-chomping, spritzer-sipping girly men of public radio regarded as crass and obvious. But then a little Bush-bashing and campaign appearances for Gore and Kerry... Viola! He's the "intellectual everyman" (laughable on both words, since he's a high school dropout whose lived the pampered life of a rock star since Nixon was president.)
Now it's the Dixie Chicks turn to find out that the mundane hillbilly wheedling they've been churning out is suddenly meaningful and important enough for public radio.
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