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Dixie Chicks Discover Inflated Record Sales Don’t Mean People Listen

J.J. Jackson* | June 13, 2006 

I said it before, don’t believe the hype about the Dixie Chicks being as popular as their record sales indicate. There are a thousand and one ways to make an album look like it is selling from buy agreements with coffee shops to cheap promo sales and it looks like the the Dixie Chicks who admitted they are country phonies they may not have been ready to see that it is their fans that are the ones not “ready to make nice” with them.

In fact the proof is in the pudding, or in this case the ticket sales

The Dixie Chicks will continue their struggle to figure out where their own Mason-Dixon Line lies on a map of America’s arenas.

The reason is that ticket sales for their forthcoming road run, the Accidents & Accusations Tour, have not as gone as expected; in many Southern states and Midwest markets, the Chicks have not been forgiven for perceived political sins of the past. Industry watchers say some radio stations are extending their boycott of the group’s recordings to include advertising bans for Dixie Chicks concerts. - San Francisco Chronicle

Then take the comments of Mr. Bongiovanni

“Obviously there are political overtones to this as well,” says Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar, the concert industry trade publication.

“It personally bothers me when I hear that two country stations in Atlanta have refused to accept advertising for the show at Philips Arena, which at this point is not selling well. These shows are in September, so I think it’s a little early to be panicking.”

There are two major country music stations in Atlanta, Kicks 101.5 and Eagle 106.7, and airplay statistics show that neither has played a Chicks song since 2003, when Chicks singer Natalie Maines fired the insult heard ’round the world at President Bush from a stage in England.

My question is why does a privately run business deciding not to endorse the Dixie Chicks “bother” you?

Perhaps you think they should be forced, or at least coerced, into promoting an event by a trio of political hacks that wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the asses?

Apparently it “bothers” them that the Dixie Chicks even dare show their faces around town. And that is their right. I mean Heaven for-freaking-bid that they not support the white trash that turned their backs on the industry and fans that made them millionares right?

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