Comments on: Dixie Chicks New CD, Taking The Long Way, Breaks Records http://gone-hollywood.com/2006/05/dixie-chicks-new-cd-taking-the-long-way-breaks-records/ News and commentary on celebrities. Especially hot female celebrities. Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: yetanotherjohn http://gone-hollywood.com/2006/05/dixie-chicks-new-cd-taking-the-long-way-breaks-records/#comment-1638 yetanotherjohn Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:19:57 +0000 http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/2006/05/dixie-chicks-new-cd-taking-the-long-way-breaks-records/#comment-1638 Just to be clear, this is a press release. And having written more than one press release, I understand about emphasizing the positive and ignoring the negative. The "record breaking" third #1 debut by a female group is valid (though slice the definition fine enough and everyone is record breaking in something). But the number two album debuted at #1 with sales of 780,000 while this album debuted with 526,000. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002610727 Rascall Flatts showed that it was certainly possible to debut an album with higher sales in April of this year at 722,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_Flatts . So the record breaking is not at financially successful as their pre- foot insertion/speaking truth to power. The real question is the total sales of the album. The record company doesn't care if the DC are selling to country music fans or Kos Kids, but they do care about total sales. So if the DC drop like a stone in sales, expect this to be pointed out to artists who may think that insulting their fans is the way to stardom. If the sales remain strong, expect a string of similar episodes, but they likely won't be as successfull as the 'shock value' won't be as great. Just to be clear, this is a press release. And having written more than one press release, I understand about emphasizing the positive and ignoring the negative.

The “record breaking” third #1 debut by a female group is valid (though slice the definition fine enough and everyone is record breaking in something). But the number two album debuted at #1 with sales of 780,000 while this album debuted with 526,000. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002610727 Rascall Flatts showed that it was certainly possible to debut an album with higher sales in April of this year at 722,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_Flatts .

So the record breaking is not at financially successful as their pre- foot insertion/speaking truth to power. The real question is the total sales of the album. The record company doesn’t care if the DC are selling to country music fans or Kos Kids, but they do care about total sales. So if the DC drop like a stone in sales, expect this to be pointed out to artists who may think that insulting their fans is the way to stardom. If the sales remain strong, expect a string of similar episodes, but they likely won’t be as successfull as the ’shock value’ won’t be as great.

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