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Posted February 13, 2007 — in Music News
The White Stripes are close to inking a multi-million dollar deal with Warner Bros. A million dollar Deal for the White Stripes? Definitely a leap of faith here.
MTV is set to cut 250 jobs. They are facing the challenges of society and the digital age.
David Goldberg and Robert Roback who lead Yahoo’s music division, are leaving the company. The resignations are due to personal reasons.
Grammy Sweep by Dixie Chicks Is Seen as a Vindication? Country Broadcasters call the Recording Academy ‘Out-of-Touch’.
The Dixie Chicks’ big win at the Grammy Awards exposed ideological tensions between the music industry’s Nashville establishment and the members of the Recording Academy.
Although we don’t know, many insiders have some serious doubts about this years Grammys. Even though the Dixie Chicks album “Taking the Long Way Home” sold 1.9 million copies, it still fell short compared with albums by Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts which were supported by country radio.
As for as the Grammy voters were concerned, the Dixie Chicks “made a great album this year, and their music and their commentary resonated with our membership, as it did with the entire nation,� said Neil Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
But……
Mr. Ayeroff, who founded the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, said a man sitting behind him in the Grammy audience snickered each time the Dixie Chicks received another trophy.
And………
Even though the Dixie Chicks owned the Grammys, it still wont convince Nashville. Country radio still won’t make nice with the chicks.
“Most country stations aren’t playing the Chicks, and they aren’t going to start now,” said Jim Jacobs, owner of WTDR-FM, a country radio station in Talladega, Ala.
Country broadcasters said that the group’s five Grammys show how out of touch the Recording Academy is from the average country fan.
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“but the Grammy runaway suggests that a significant portion of the rest of the country has come around to their way of thinking.”i was a member of N.A.R.A.S.and got tired of the far left attitude and the political points of veiw.grammys are voted by n.a.r.a.s.members only.there is a ton of lobbying and phone calls and wheeling and dealing that goes on.politics and music is not new anyone remember the 60’s?had a band in 2001 called Quickchange that made the top 100 in best “new metal artist”n.a.r.a.s.has forgotten the new artist and is just another tv show with a political point of veiw.i was a member of the chicago chapter.
Comment by larry anderson — February 14, 2007 @ 5:13 am
“Country broadcasters said that the group’s five Grammys show how out of touch the Recording Academy is from the average country fan.”
meanwhile, i’d say that the average country fan is out of touch. sorry, couldn’t resist!
Comment by vegard — February 14, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
A million dollar Deal for the White Stripes?why are major labels like the chicago cubs?cause they spend tons of money on players and still lose.ok K.O.A.R….here’s your chance to shine.how about a story on warner bros and the white stripes and with slumping cd sales how the label recoups this investment.
Comment by larry anderson — February 15, 2007 @ 3:48 am
I would like to know how the Grammy’s, an award given out for excellence in performance and recording quality, became a platform for agendas. I read your post on sales increases post-grammys, and frankly, 800% tells me no one was buying the record, currently. I felt embarrassed after watching the grammys; there were a few great performances but two of those were put on a bill with 3 people, John Mayer and John Legend. Corinne Bailey Rae…. dude, I was sleeping. The Dixie Chicks still anger many americans; thus why their last tour was lackluster at best. They still will not get played on country radio, and despite agendas from either side of the country, country’s listeners STILL do not want to hear them. And to my last recollection, I dont remember hearing them all that much on HOT AC or CHR; maybe they were big in Canada…
Comment by frustrated — February 15, 2007 @ 6:00 am
Politics and Vindication controlled this years Grammys. Quite shameless. Whats even more shameless is some people ranting and wanting country stations to begin playing Dixie Chicks because they won 5 grammys. The Grammys ingored the artists that resonated with the public like Carrie Underwood. The Dixie Chicks resonated with the Recording Academy. How bias and how cute!!!
You have to realize that the Grammys are controlled by the left wing media. George Soros a left wing nut pumps alot money into the media so they can support his ideology and agenda. Thats a fact.
Comment by koar — February 15, 2007 @ 9:56 am