Oh I'm not dillusional enough to think that the Chix won't make money touring.. but I would definately bet you they make less this tour than on their last one.
Many Entertainers are idiots.. you are paid to step and fetch for the audience... when you open your mouth and start espousing BS you are just alienating your audience...
These guys made it even worse by saying "we are through with country music"... but here they are a few years later begging country music fans to pay them...
Their idiocy is going to hurt them.. no they won't be destitute, but they won't be making as much as they used to.
No sellouts so far for the new tour. They sold out 51 venues on their last tour on the first day. The silence from the MSM is deafening...
Flashback: Dixie Chicks Hatch Concert Record
Mar 6, 2003, 1:15 PM PT
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,11385,00.html?newsrellink
The Dixie Chicks can do some major clucking now.
After winning three Grammys last month, including Best Country Album for Home, the hit-making trio winged their way to a record over the weekend, selling an unprecedented 867,000 tickets for their upcoming Top of the World arena tour in just one day.
All told, the Chicks--Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire--sold out an astonishing 51 of 59 venues for the North American leg of the tour on Saturday.
"That's awesome business. There are very few tours that actually go up on sale with all their dates at once and to have that kind of response across the country is a huge compliment to their career," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor