Dixie Chicks New Album Debuts At #1......

[truthpusher]

Is this in anyway a statement on their political views?

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060531/nyw075.html?.v=52

Dixie Chicks New Album, Taking The Long Way, Debuts At #1 On Billboard Top 200

Wednesday May 31, 8:45 am ET

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.


With the #1 debut of Taking The Long Way, the Dixie Chicks have also become the first female group in chart history to have three studio albums occupy the #1 slot on the Top 200.

Taking The Long Way has achieved one of the year's Top 5 first week's sales tallies and has the best first week's sales for any female act on the Top 200 in 2006.

In addition to its chart-topping success in America, Taking The Long Way has just debuted at #2 in Australia.

Taking The Long Way arrives in the midst of an incredible media blitz surrounding the Dixie Chicks, who were honored with a profile on CBS's "60 Minutes" and appeared on the cover of Time magazine an unprecedented two times in May. The group was featured in a five-part series of interviews, culminating with an SRO live concert at New York's Bryant Park on Friday, May 26, on ABC's "Good Morning America." The Dixie Chicks will sit down for an in-depth interview on "Larry King Live" tonight, Wednesday, May 31.

(snip)

Taking The Long Way is produced by Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run-DMC) and features fourteen new songs co-written by the Dixie Chicks.

"Everything felt more personal this time," says the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines. "I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up."

link: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060531/nyw075.html?.v=52

[Love Bug]

1. It's a nice "fuck you" to Reba McIntyre!

Go, Chicks!

[SoFlaJet]

3. what did Reba say?

Oh yea congrats Marty,Emily and Natalie-we bought it last week and love it

[redqueen]

4. I'm curious to know, too...

posting here so I can find it later

[Jack from Charlotte]

9. At some country music awards she said....

something like, "If the Dixie Chicks can sing with a foot in their mouths, I should be able to MC this show."

[redqueen]

18. Thanks

Didn't know she was a freeper. Yuck.

[liberalmike27]

24. I personally didn't think

That Natalie ever put her foot in her mouth. Usually the statement implies some sort of regret by the person who says it. I suppose it is just another republican who is putting a spin on something that isn't true.

[idgiehkt]

29. well, that explains some things then.

Now I know why they said what they said about not wanting to have the kind of fans that put you in a CD changer with Reba McIytire and Toby Keith, because those people limit what you can do. Is this the country billboard chart or the whole shebang? If it's overall, that knocks my socks off. Wow. The girls did bangup music and tour sales last time as well. Good for them. I can't imagine having spent my whole career and made ever so many albums like Reba has without saying on godd*mn worthwhile thing, ever, except for that one song where the girl's mother turns her into a whore so she won't starve, 'frisky' or something like that.

And the Chicks can sleep at night. Go Chicks!

[faithnotgreed]

40. it indeed is "the whole shebang"

not just country charts..... though someone posted that its also # 1 on country charts but i dont know if thats true or not

all the better if so

[idgiehkt]

45. yes, it's true! WOOHOO!!!!!

And while country radio has remained cool to the group in the wake of a 2003 boycott following comments group member Natalie Maines made about President Bush, "Taking the Long Way" also nabs the No. 1 spot on the Country Albums chart, bumping Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" (Lyric Street/Hollywood) down to No. 2 after seven weeks at the top.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002610727

MONEY TALKS...now lets see if the bullshit walks!

lol, happy day.

[LostinVA]

16. She made a snide comment at the awards last week --

about the Chicks singing with their foot in their mouths... she got ana auditorium full of approval... I threw away every CD of hers a few years ago when I found out she was quite a Freeper...

[951-Riverside]

20. Twisted mouth bitch

She either twists her mouth to the side of her face because she had a stroke or she's trying really hard to fake that southern accent, her hair is probably brown with grey seeping in and WHERE THE HELL IS HER UPPER LIP?



"Imma decider survivor"

[Love Bug]

27. Reba said this at last week's CMA awards:

"I don't know why I was so nervous about hosting this show this year," she said. "If the Dixie Chicks can sing with their foot in their mouths, surely I can host this sucker."

[cboy4]

6. No, it's a nice fuck you to the wingnuts who have tried to destroy

these women.

Those ugly bastards who boycotted radio stations and concerts are POWERLESS in stopping all of us from supporting the chicks.

And you know they hate that!

[ladjf]

13. Let's hope we can expand this into election politics.

[ladjf]

7. Reba said that the Chicks should appoligize.

[951-Riverside]

23. Video HERE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_Qd8OeRFA

[ladjf]

34. Hmm. That was worse than I had thought. thanks for the video.

[LSK]

43. i never really liked her

Thanks for the reminder of why I never listen to country radio anymore.

[acmejack]

2. Haha!

Vindication, I would say! Natalie has to be feeling mighty good right about now. Lloyd raised his little girl right.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. HA! Take THAT you psycho loving, RW wacko nut jobs! It's a GREAT CD!

I LOVE it! Not just the song, "Not Ready To Make Nice", but the WHOLE CD is GREAT!

WTG, Chicks!

[ladjf]

8. Does this suggest that maybe the country radio stations don't

really rule the world as they think they do?

[cboy4]

11. I believe this is sales...not radio play

I think if enough freeper-types complain about this latest album and threaten a boycott, a lot of country stations will again lose their spine.

[ladjf]

12. Yes, it is sales. However, the radio idiots find themselves in the

position of refusing to play the best selling album.

[Mr_Spock]

15. How can they not play the best-selling album?

These idiots in the country music scene are ass holes.

[ladjf]

21. Right wing political "war lords" own the country radio stations.

All of the hullabaloo about the Dixie Chicks was a political strategy to further the right wing agenda by rallying the country listeners against anyone who criticizes the administration. It worked when the first did it. However, times are changing as the realities of the administrations policies are beginning to sink in with more and more people. The tide is indeed turning. That's why leaders like Gore, Feingold, Conyers, Boxer, and Murtha seem to be climbing in popularity. Those that have been speaking the truth are being listened to.

[Mr_Spock]

26. Please, let it be so.

Let's hope the rising swell of support for the people doing the right thing will lift the entire country from the current Bush induced funk that it's in.

[ladjf]

33. I think that there is a close parallel between the political dynamics

in Germany during the rise and fall of the Third Reich and the rise and fall of the Republican administration beginning with Nixon. Hitler's rush into war caused their situation of go totally out of control before there was time to stop Hitler from within. There were several unsuccessful assassination attempts. But, the Germans were inexorably swept up into the consequences of Hitler's madness.

The sequence of Republican caused consequences is unfolding at a slower rate. There may still be time for the American people to wake up an overthrow the corrupt Republican regime. Step one would be to legitimize the election process, at least to a level that would negate most of the rigged systems. If the Democrats can mount enough of a majority in November to take over the House and possibly the Senate, the overthrow task would be very doable.

On the other hand, if the election process is hopelessly rigged and the Republicans maintain all of the majorities, we likely will never see another Democratic election held in the U.S. during our lifetimes. The U.S. will sink to third world status and will be vulnerable to a number of nasty possibilities of outside.

[Mr_Spock]

35. So far the repukes are at least pretending to play by most of the rules

I think you would have rioting in the streets if pre-election polls showed a sizable lead for the Democrat and suddenly the repuke won on election night. We haven't yet seen an election with a huge poll margin overturned on election day. We (Dems) have only ourselves to blame if the repukes are still close enough in the polls by election day where they can steal it. This entire RW episode in our history is just as much the fault of the Dems as it is the result of an orchestrated campaign by the RW ass holes. If we fall, it's because we as a nation don't deserve to survive and have a suicide wish.

[gatorboy]

19. Radio doesn't have the pull it use to though.

With the power of the internet and especially iTunes, the Dixie Chicks won't have to appease the country right for airplay like they might have had done years ago.

[ladjf]

22. You are correct. And, it's likely that the general political "juice"

of the administration is going away rapidly. More and more Americans are realizing what is going on.

[idgiehkt]

30. thanks for posting that.

I find alot of comfort in that. People go searching for music now, they don't have to wait for a radio to play it. I can't wait for the day when all artists sell directly to listeners through the internet and the labels are gone.

[givemebackmycountry]

10. This album has been out about five minutes and...

It's sold a half a million copies.

I hope it sells twenty times that.
I hope it's the best selling album of all time.
World Wide.

I hope that Toby Keith is puking up beer and chewing tobacco juice in a trailer in Kentucky thirty years from now.

I hope that Reba gets gout and has to undergo surgery to get Toby Keith's boot out of her ass.

I hope everyone who said these girls should shut up and sing, choke on their words.

I'm ashamed that the President is from freaking America, never mind Texas.

I'm ashamed his fat Quaker Oats looking mother, and his murderous father are still sucking oxygen.

Fuck all three of them

The Chicks rock.

[LostinVA]

17. But props to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

The only mainstream Country I still listen to because of the Chicks' blacklisting.

[idgiehkt]

32. *cough* Willie Nelson

he's a good guy...most of the time anyway.

[951-Riverside]

44. *cough* *cough* *cough* *puff* *cough*

He's the Snoop dog of country :D

[LostinVA]

46. But, NOT considered "mainstream" anymore...

I mean the crop of artists that get played on CMT alot, etc.

[Mr_Spock]

14. It's nice to read some good news today!

With all the bad news in Iraq and this murderous administration now looking to murder more innocents in Iran, I'm happy to see that good people still can still win in the end.

[lebkuchen]

25. I saw the Dixie Chicks perform on Okinawa sometime in the late 90's

It was at the NCO club. I'd never heard of "The Dixie Chicks" before, but they got everyone dancing.

The fiddleplayer went into the audience to play on soldiers' laps. It was good fun!

The Dixie Chicks were supporting the troops while Bush was chasing the dragon. No context in that arena.

[earth mom]

28. I don't like Country music, but the Dixie Chicks ROCK!

I will buy their CD! :applause:

[Mr_Spock]

36. Same boat here - I bought it and like 4 songs quite a lot...

That's a pretty good number of songs that I want to listen to repeatedly from ANY album, never mind a country band (of which I am usually not a fan). It's a good album.

[Beaverhausen]

31. They are on Larry King tonight

taking your phone calls!

[Ron Green]

37. Breaking away from the right-wing tilt of the "Country" market

was a good strategy that worked like a charm. They stand alone now as a musically-friendly pop group with lots of publicity who bet on the winning side of the political momentum. I like to think that, as one of the working musicians who let Martie and Emily Erwin sit in with our band 25 years ago, our "hippie" consciousness in a string-band format may have rubbed off on them a little bit. In any case, even if they "sold out" musically, they're now on the cover of Time Magazine and in a position to lots and lots of good. I'm proud of how those little girls turned out.

[derby378]

38. In case you missed it, here's some of Natalie's hate mail from 2003

And to think that these people thought they could bring the Dixie Chicks down:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1274932

One more thing: One of these guys actually posted the private phone number for their producer so he could be FReeped. And no, I ain't giving it out - I never called it myself, and I have no idea if it even works.

:evilgrin:

[faithnotgreed]

39. listening to it right now - the title track is wonderful

it must be an amazing feeling to be the #1 album given how shaken they were (and still seem to be) by the backlash

im thrilled for them
i hope they feel the love far and wide

[johnnie]

41. It's interesting to note:

Toby Keith sold 329,831 copies of his new album in the first week of sales..lol.
I guess the Dixie Chicks put a boot in his ass.

[LostinVA]

47. GIGGLE

[dbt]

42. EAT it, Nashville!

How y'all fixin' to deal with the SHITLOAD of money that the Chicks are making off of your stinking, flag-waving corpse?

Ye Willing Slaves Of Mammon Who Bet The Wrong Horse, how WILL you reconcile the difference between your flag-sucking half-wit safe-as-milk COMMERCIAL "INSTINCTS" with what really happened?

You reckon we're about to see some of your patented carbon-copy, watered down PROTEST MUSIC now--with your "countrypolitan" STRING SECTIONS?

:evilgrin:
dbt
Eat My Shorts, Chet Atkins

PS: How come I ain't seen this on the "news?"