CENSORSHIP! Tough marketing strategy from the Dixie Chicks. "You're all a bunch of rubes! Now go buy our album." Apparently it's not working so well. Go figure.
"Because we'd rather have nothing than settle for less."
CENSORSHIP! Tough marketing strategy from the Dixie Chicks. "You're all a bunch of rubes! Now go buy our album." Apparently it's not working so well. Go figure.
Posted by Scott Hess at 1:50 PM
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The beginning of the end? The demise of the Dixie Chicks?
Don't the door hit your ass on the way out!
Is it wrong? No. Do I disagree? Yes.
I think they're homely and wrong-headed. Full of themselves. Etc. Not cute.
Now that Katherine McPhee? Hot. Although her dorkiness definitely is a problem...
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/bestsellers_cds2.asp?PID=2800&z=y&cds2Pid=3168&linkid=77694
#1 in Barnes&Noble country album sales.
No such thing as "bad publicity?" or radio play (or lack there of) doesn't translate to sales anymore? I tend to side with the latter. While there certainly appear to be plenty of vocal people that diss the Dixie Chicks, there's also quite a few that still like their music. IMO Radio stations don't represent consumer tastes any more, rather who has the deepest pockets of payola.
I remember when you could actually call WOXY, make a request for a Mission of Burma song and (cough) they'd play it!
Now even BillBoard is on the bandwagon...
How much of the press in the weeks leading up to the albums release was blacklisting and hopeful schadenfreude?
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060531/nyw075.html?.v=52
Dixie Chicks Become First Female Group Ever To Have Three Albums Debut In Top Slot
On Sales Dates For Dixie Chicks "Accidents & Accusations Tour" Announced
NEW YORK, May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week's sales of 525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record the Chicks established in 2002 when the group's last studio album, Home, debuted at #1 and made them the first female group ever to have two albums debut at #1.
My husband thinks they're hot. More to the point, he thinks they can play their instruments (high praise from this man).
Personally, I like 'em. I make a point of playing a Dixie Chicks song on the jukebox every time we go to Waffle House. I consider it payback for all that Toby Keith....
TWWK
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