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Dixie Chicks Backlash Hits "Home" On Albums Chart; Sales Down 42% This Week
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| March 26, 2003
| Joe D'Angelo
Posted on 03/26/2003 6:10:58 PM PST by L.N. Smithee
50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' will top the Billboard albums chart for the fourth straight week after selling more than 234,000 copies, according to SoundScan figures released Wednesday (March 26). Of the album's seven-week chart life, it's led the pack for five of them, for a grand total of 3.5 million copies sold.
Both Norah Jones and R. Kelly will remain in their respective #2 and #3 spots from the week before. Sales of Jones' Come Away With Me, a chart fixture for over a year, were upwards of 175,000 copies, a depression of more than 67,000 from the week before. Kelly's Chocolate Factory also slid in sales, from 128,000 to 104,000 copies.
The disparaging remarks the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines made about President George W. Bush in London two weeks ago ("Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas ..."), has hit Home, so to speak. In response to outrage from many Bush supporters, the country trio's songs were pulled from several radio stations' playlists, despite Maines' public explanation ("My comments were made in frustration ...") issued almost immediately after the news broke. The controversy took its toll at retail, as sales of Home fell by more than 42 percent, from 123,000 copies to 71,000. The LP, which has resided near the top of the chart for 30 weeks, will slide three spots to #7.
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To: octobersky
And speaking of ,
FReeping, there is an article in the Tuesday March 18 edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer that addresses this issue. If anyone missed the article and would like to read it,
Click here.
To: L.N. Smithee
That is still to high [42%] need to be a least [80%]then that will get them to thinking to keep thier salty remarks to them self.Don't mess with our president and don't mess with Texas.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:37:22 PM PST
by
solo gringo
(Always Ranting Always Rite)
To: FITZ
They might not sell another record yet the left will still parade them at their Grammies to tell the world this is the best country music group.
To: L.N. Smithee
Lets go for 100% of the Ditzy Chumps being boycotted!!
24
posted on
03/26/2003 6:40:35 PM PST
by
johnfl61
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
But when the liberals get done remaking them, they'll have to be singing songs like "kumbaya" and other peacenik songs.
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:44:16 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: octobersky
God, if I hear one more leftist pundit state that airing of a particular group (in this case the AlJazeer Chix) or a program (ala Martin "I really am the president" Sheen) represents free speech (that is, the opposite of censorship) I am going to smack someone right in the mouth!
Free speech is a compact between the GOVERNMENT and INDIVIDUALS! No citizen can constitutionally "censor" another. Playlists on radio stations, editoral content boards on newspapers, NOT buying CDs or watching a TV program are CAPITALISM at work. Free speech has nothing to do with it. No governmental agency is attempting to supress anyone's right to exprss their opinion, no matter how immature, misinformed or wrongheaded.
If the idiot left is going to cite a "right" they at least should understand what a "right" IS.
SHEEZE!
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posted on
03/26/2003 6:46:17 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: freedumb2003
If the idiot left is going to cite a "right" they at least should understand what a "right" IS.Oh, the Left knows full well what a "right" is, and they also know full well that lots of Americans don't, thanks to the Left's control of the government PC indoctrination centers schools. Thir misuse of the word "censorship", deliberately done so as to provoke a strong emotional response, is yet another consequence of our loss of the language to the propaganda masters of the Left.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:00:01 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(Note to Tom Dashcle: If I want your opinion, I'll ask Chirac for it.)
To: Amazed1953
The Dixie Chicks popularity is a Long time gone,
And it ain't coming back again.
To: freedumb2003
Well, I look at it this way; the Chixs are entitled to their opinion and nobody is stopping them, but their audience is also entitled to an opinion. When they opened their mouths they were spitting in the wind. Celebs should stay out of politics unless they intend to give up their entertainment careers.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:05:04 PM PST
by
virgil
To: Petronski
Okay, Petronski, you've got to see these funny commercials by the American Cancer Society!
It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Polyp Man, and he's no superhero. Click to see commercials. He's the villain in a series of public service announcements being sent out to television stations this week. Dressed in red tights and a bulbous red suit, Polyp Man runs from doctors in scenes reminiscent of "Cops" or "NYPD Blue."
![](http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/01/30/polyp.man.ad/story.polyp.caught.jpg)
Polyp man being dragged away by the doctors who caught him...Hey, he does sort've look like Moore...hmmmm.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:08:11 PM PST
by
lsee
To: Petronski
Colon polyp...Great line. LOL...LOL
To: JeeperFreeper
It must really pain liberals to have to defend a group with "dixie" and "chicks" in their name.
To: johnfl61
The DITSY SLITS
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:26:59 PM PST
by
diode
To: CFC__VRWC
yet another consequence of our loss of the language to the propaganda masters of the Left. What is tragic and, yes, ironic, is that THEY keep accusing everyone who doesn't parrot their simplistic drivel as using Orwellian double-speak.
It never cases to amaze me that they (I check in at DU from time to time) can't see how the left basically stands for nothing except re-election and the easiest way to do that is to appeal to the masses who work the least and contribute the least.
It is all about re-election -- the liberal politicians are all loaded -- why try to use the system to grow capital when you can sqander it in the pursuit of pure, anadulterated POWER?
The saddest thing in the world is a middle-class liberal. These are the "useful idiots" of their own handlers.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:29:19 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: L.N. Smithee
As are so many others, this Texan is ashamed to share her home state with the Hippie Chicks. They certainly have seen plenty of cross-over success, but, duh, they seem to have forgotten the makeup of their loyal fanbase...you know, the country music lovers who are generally conservaive (and very supportive of our President). The Dixie Cups may not remember this, but we Texans sent a very popular incumbent governor (Miz Richards, if you're nasty) packing in order to make room for Dubya. Four years later, we handed him a 'landslide' reelection victory. Figure it out, ladies.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:39:45 PM PST
by
TXBlair
To: freedumb2003
I hate to hear about Dixie Dips demised record sales.he,he,he
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:45:25 PM PST
by
shootist
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
How is CMT handling the Chix dilemma?
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:48:14 PM PST
by
uncitizen
(hostile freepers need not reply)
To: uncitizen
They are not playing them.
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:49:37 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(chIRAQ & sadDAM are bedfellows & clinton is a raping traitor!)
To: L.N. Smithee
Today I read that the Dixie Chicks have announced they're through apologizing.
This is a tactical maneuver, to make them seem in control of the situation.
If you have a moment, read why it's a good idea to Keep up the FReep:
Why FReeping the sponsors of celebrities works...
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posted on
03/26/2003 7:52:33 PM PST
by
IncPen
(Get 'em, boys!)
To: octobersky
Only 42%? We can do better. Everyone roll up your sleeves.
40
posted on
03/26/2003 7:57:50 PM PST
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
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