Glen Campbell Tribute Planned for Americana Music Festival

The $75 deluxe packages I think are soon to come:

Montgomery Gentry: Dead bear, multiple empty bottles of Jack, temporary tatoo of 5 o’clock shadow.

Buddy Jewell: Klan Hood, desperation, rejection letter from “Gone Country 3″

the shattered remnants of Garth’s artistic credibility

aren’t the jokes supposed to be in the mailbag?

Good point…that’s gotta be easier to package than Jewell’s depseration….

Craig Wiseman’s wife is called KK?

Yes - and she is a minister. She officiated at the wedding of fellow songwriter Tony Mullins and his lovely wife Kimberly — and at the funeral of Jeffrey Steele’s son Alex.

Well, leave it to me to accidentally poke fun at a minister. Do you know if KK is her full name or initials or something? It just strikes me as odd.

Her initials.

If I haven’t said it before, Vince is the man!

Rick, I disagree with all.Taylor Swift is all about teenageer now,she has no mass appeal.
In a year or 2 the fad will be over.
Thats they way it always happens.
She isn’t a marketing genius at all, any celeb can have clothes lines or market themselves anyway they want. She will barely see any of the money anyway.
The difference here also is that Taylor Swift’s audience is very teenage and young, she doesn’t have the wide range of mass appeal big stars and in a year or 2 it all ends so she needs to cash in while she can.
People say that she will grow with her fans, b.s., it never works that way. She is having good success now as a teenager and then it vanishes in a year or 2 until the next young teenager comes along.

To be truly big and massive and to truly last you need to be a huge icon like Shania who has massive fan base who are very young-very old and Shania is global and worldwide. Shania never made it big until she was in her late 20’s. Garth also didn’t hit it big till later. These are the type of artists that rake in the massive cash decades in the future, because they have a legacy of songs and massive sales that last a lifetime.

Thats why I laugh at everyone gets caught up in these teenagers who are hot at the moment and people think they make lots of money.
I bet these young acts dont’ make one tenth of what you think or what is in the media.

Rick, you are going way overboard here. She is just one of many young teenagers doing well and she is not a media pop icon. She is just hot at the moment.
Just because someone wants to star a fashion line or whatever doesn’t mean it will be successful and into the future. Any celeb can have perfume or fashion line but it takes a special celeb to have loyal fans into the future who will buy your product.
LIke Shania’s 2 massive selling perfumes that are huge successes for her. Shania built up a loyal massive fan base over 14 years and she can count on those fans to buy whatever she sells.

You are going way overboard on this celeb stuff. Miley Cyrus who was also the most successful teenageer had her cd only sell 300,00 the first week. The jonas brothers who are the hottest young act today sold 500,000 the first week.
These are very good numberrs but I bet an older icon like Shania could come out with a new cd and scan 800,000 in the very first week of sales.

What I am saying is the media makes them out to be more than they actually are. These are all fads that come and go every year.

Matt, you are dead wrong. Shania will easily sell over 700,000 to 800,000 the first week.
Shania is a music icon with most loyal fans in the world. Todays market has nothing to do with first week sales, you need a reality check. Todays’ market effects the long term sales of a cd.
But big stars and icons like Shania can come out with a new highly anticated cd and sell huge in the first week. Shania,U2 and Emminem could all sell over 700,000 the first week of sales.
If you think that a highly antipated album from one of the biggest sellers of alltime won’t sell that much in the first week then you are dreaming.
It won’t sell 38 million worldwide like Shania’s Come on over album but in the first week of sales I will bet it does huge numbers.

Is Paul really Jake or George? Jake’s been hitting CU lately. Or is there another one out there. God help us all! And I’m not taking the Lord’s name in vain; I mean it. I’m praying for patience. I swear, I’ve always liked Shenia, but I’m starting to get annoyed just by the mention of her name. By the time her next CD comes people like Paul/George/Jake will guarantee that I stay away. Is that what the Shenai fanatics want? Okay, God hasn’t granted me patience just yet…

Leean, then it is your problem not mine if my comments make you not like an artist.
Either you like someone or you don’t and nothing somebody says should change that.
I am a fan of many artists but I state the facts that nobody wants to hear.
If you don’t like my comments then pass over them.
If somebody keeps on talking about Elvis presley it isn’t going to make me stop buying his music.
I buy music from the icons and big stars that make impact like a Shania,Elvis,Garth Brooks,U2 and Bruce Springsteen.

It’s cool to promote your favorite artist, but it’s annoying when one is ridiculous about it. It’s impossible to take that person seriously at all. Your comments don’t make me not like Shenia, I just get annoyed when I stumble across her name now. There’s a difference. Id’ love to skip over your comments, but they’re everywhere…if not under Paul, under Jake, George or any other name you decide to hide behind. You’re not hiding though, because you’re rhetoric is extremely obvious.

I’m done with this conversation though, because it’s not worth my time or fuse.

Agreed, Matt. I love Vince Gill and everyone knows it, but if a thread is about RF, for example, I’m not gonna just start talking about how RF sucks and Vince Gill is the king. All roads do not lead to Shenia. At CU no matter how complimentary someone was of Shenia, this guy still felt that we were disrespecting her. That’s when you know you’re just talking to a radical. So, I’ll just talk to you, Matt.:)

“I predict it sells 700-800 thousand the first week in sales in late 2009. And I predicet it goes tripple platinum in the first 3 months during the holliday season. Trust me, I know how it works.”

Wow. Mindboggling how sure of yourself you are Paul. I will cook those words into a nice humble pie for you to consume the week the album comes out. It’s one thing to be an arrogant know-it-all if one actually does know something; quite another when it’s coming from an illiterate fool

I may well apologize for getting personal but I think (and perhaps others will back me up here), the days of ANYONE selling 7-8 hundred thousand in their first week are long gone. And I love Ms. Twain’s music for what that’s worth.

aargh,

They’re not long gone but increasingly rare. Lil’ Wayne’s most recent album sold 1 million units it’s first week and The Recent Coldplay and Jonas Brothers albums sold 500-600K their first weeks. Still, it takes the right market, artist and other factors.

I just don’t think an artist who has been gone from the market this long (like Shania) can expect to sell that many records in the first week. They’d need to really promote the album along with having massive immediate success. Shania prbably has the fan base to sell 300K or so a first week but 800K? I doubt it.

I don’t expect Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts or Taylor Swift to even sell 800K. They’re all in the 400-500K range. Selling Gold the first week is still mighty impressive.

Leeann,

I’m sure he’ll disagree with my ‘level headed’ approaches to this whole sales debate…

Hey Matt, I would like you to repeat what you said to industry insiders so they could get a good laugh. That part about Cold Play having mroe mass appeal than the biggest selling artist in the last decade should make them laugh really hard.
If you are level headed like you claim then look at all the facts. The fact that Shania’s album has been highly anticated for a long time and it only makes fans want more. The fact that any new album by Shania will get huge hype and promotion and the fact that she is the biggest selling act in the last decade.
And you are trying to tell everyone that she will only sell 300,000 at the most first week lol!!!
Come on, place your bet, I and thousands of industry insiders will take your bet.

dude, you like Shania, you think she’ll sell a whole heap of records, we get it.

Ever notice how you can gauge the extent of someone’s insanity by looking at the number of times he’ll reply to the same exact comment before anyone else has a chance to jump back into the conversation?

@John
“People say that she will grow with her fans, b.s., it never works that way. She is having good success now as a teenager and then it vanishes in a year or 2 until the next young teenager comes along.”

It worked that way for Lauren Conrad her fans have stayed with her from Laguna Beach to the Hills.

John,

Those posts just prove his insanity. Just to let Paul know, I am not a “Shania-basher.” I just think things through logically. I also WORK in the industry and Chesney’s last record sold around 400K the first week it was out. Whatever the case, I’m done trying to be rational with someone who clearly isn’t.

Paul,

It’s not personal w/r/t you personally, just this particular instance.

Hahaha….
Truer words haven’t been spoken about the subject Leeann!

Matt, just the fact you said ha,ha shows your maturity level. And just the fact that many of your posts here are negative against Shania shows your motive. You even mentioned once that Shania and Mutt was a business relationship only and that their marriage meant nothing or their child.
You have no credibility and just the fact that you can’t respond to the facts above prove that.

I’m too lazy to look this up now, but as a chart fanatic, I think that I recall that Shania didn’t even have any major hit singles off of her last studio album, did she? Perhaps she still has worldwide popularity, but the Billboard album charts only measure American sales. Worldwide, maybe she would sell 900,000 in a week. In the states alone, she will not. Her popularity is comparable to Garth Brooks — her biggest days are behind her, just as his are. To sell in those numbers, you generally have to appeal to young people — like Coldplay does, like Li’l Wayne does, and like the Jonas Brothers do. Teenagers don’t even know who Shania Twain is. Can she still sell out arenas? Probably. Nostalgia acts do very well. The public demand for a new Guns ‘n Roses album is overestimated, the public demand for a new AC DC album is likely overestimated, and, Paul, you overestimate the demand of the general public - not rabid Shania fans, but the general public — for a new Shania album. I’m sure my many years of studying the charts counts for nothing, though, Paul, and I, along with everyone else on this thread who dares to disagree with you, am just a know-nothing buffoon.

Way to change the subject, Troy! Thank you.:) My answer is, somewhat.

Pselby, nice try about the teenage comments lmao!!!!
I guess you haven’t checked her message boards and people who go to her concerts all over the world.
Oh and the Jonas brothers are teenagers right? They are covering Shania’s I’M GONNA GETCHA GOOD song on their burning up tour. And all the kids knew the song and the words to Shania’s song.
In fact Shania’s cover song is the most popular song on the Jonas brothers tour.
Don’t you worry, shania’s next album will be massive in the States and worldwide with teenagers and older people.

Hey stormy, it is quite sad you resort to saying the word dumped when there is a 14 year marriage and a child envloved.You know nothing at all about the facts of their marriage.
But I do know this, Shania is one of the richest and most successful entertainers in the world and can do as she wants.
She has access to one of her many studios all over the world and access to any producer or engineer she wants to plus she lived with the greatest producer of alltime and probably can produce her own album fully if she wants to.
Bottom line is that all of you nobodies can talk all you want but Shania is the one with all the money and resources and status to do what she wants with her life on her own time,
Shania is a global megastar and you little country bumkins are jealous of that.

Paul: I guess I should have said traded in?
Does she have access to studios? I would imagine without a pre-nup most of those would skew towards the producer.

Does she have access to the studios? lmao!!! They are half in her name. My guess is that she may buy a couple more studios in Canada too since she has one in Switzerland,London,New York,New Zealand and los Angelas.
Shania knows how to produce an album now from top to bottom and she will need to use her studios around the world.
And remember Mutt realizes what a fool he was and Shania and him are just seperated. Who knows this may of all been a ploy because they didn’t have the new album ready this year.
Nobody knows the truth about anything or the split.
All I know is that they are getting along and Shania has Eja but Mutt spent some time in Canada as Shania let him have eja for a couple days.
Shania now back in Switzerland for Eja’s school.

Stormy, once again you fail to look at the facts. Shania and Mutt will work out everything peacefully. They are both massively rich and successful and they are just seperated.
they may just agree to share the studios or Shania may buy 4 of her own studios. It doesn’t really matter because they can have the resources and money to do what they each want.

k can we stop talking bout Mutt and Shaina yes the are very successful people and they have money yay for them.

I’ve never understood why people get so angry when it comes to Shania.

Another stupid remark by Matt B lmao!!!!
You better tell that to all the magazines,industry insiders and others who have been trying to get the goods on Shania’s next project for years lol!!!
Its friggen Shania Twain, the biggest selling country female artist of alltime and the biggest selling act in the last decade, thats why many care what and when she does it.
You may live in your little Nashville bubble but Nashville is a small place in the big music world.
And the secrecy behind Shania’s next project makes millions around the world want to know when it will come out.
Matt B., you have proven to be a Shania basher and hater.Maybe its the jealousy that she is rich,successful and did her own thing far beyond little Nashville. But even Nashville can’t wait to see what Shania comes up with.It will be a breath of fresh air again to see the one and only Shania with new music.

Is Rihanna and global icon then and she is yay! love her

Shania has never made a sucessful album without Nashville so she is about as much an “outsider” as Obama is. She has also never been played anywhere that most other country singers don’t get played.

Troy, what a load of bull. Shania has had 10 global hits worldwide and 20 songs on the global charts.
You guys are so full of garbage.
Troy, why do you come on here and lie like that.
Maybe check your facts. Taylor Swift is not even in the same league as Shania who has had tons of global hits and her come on over album alone sold 38 million worlwide.
Tear drops on my guitar? lmao!!!!!
Shania’s YOUR STILL THE ONE, FROM THIS MOMENT ON, MAN I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN, THAT DON’T IMPRESS ME MUCH were all tens times bigger global hits and were in the top 3 on the global charts all over the world when they came out.

Done of them were as big as umbrella

Troy, you are so dumb. Umbrella was just a pop hit. Shania’s songs are played on all formats worldwide and are played to more people.
For example,YOu still the one, was a massive global hit and classic that is way bigger than Umbrella because it was played to more people on tons of formats and it is a classic love song played at weddings worldwide. Just like FROM THIS MOMENT ONE. Shania has tons of these global mega hits and thats why she holds the record for biggest female album of alltime.

Bring it
For your still the one
Australian ARIA Charts[14] 1
Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles Chart[15] 16
Canadian Singles Chart 2
Canada RPM Country Singles 1
Dutch Singles Chart[16] 10
French Singles Chart[17] 51
German Singles Chart 68
Japan Tokyo Hot 100 16
Swiss Singles Chart[18] 26
Taiwanese Singles Chart 4
UK Singles Chart 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales 3
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 3
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 6
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 20
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks 37
U.S. Billboard Latin Pop Airplay 12
U.S. Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay 15

Rihanna umbrella
Australian ARIA Singles[32] 1
Austrian Singles Chart[32] 1
Belgian Ultratop 50 Chart[32] 1
Canadian Hot 100[32] 1
Danish Top 20[33] 1
Dutch Top 40 1
Finnish Singles Top 20[34] 1
French Top 100[35] 1
German Singles Chart[32] 1
Irish Singles Chart[32] 1
Italian Singles Chart[32][36] 1
Israeli Singles Chart 1
Italian Singles Chart[32][37] 1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[32] 1
Norwegian Singles Chart[32] 1
Polish National Top 50[38] 1
Portugal Singles Chart[32] 1
Romanian Top 100 1
Swedish Singles Chart[39] 1
Swiss Chart[32][40] 1
Turkish Top 20 Chart[41] 1
UK Singles Chart[32] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[32] 1
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[42] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs[32] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[43] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[44] 1

Now lets compare sales lmao!!!
Shania had one album that sold more than Rhianna will in her whole career.
Learn the difference between mass appeal and just pop charts.
Many,many countries were left your list.

Paul: To be fair, other artists don’t re-mix their songs to be pop. That doesn’t mean they don’t get played in those countries.
As for top selling artist–Shania was a top selling artist. Was. Past tense. How many albums has she sold in 2008.

Rihanna song Umbrella was the highest charting song of 2007 look up how long it was number one on the world chart. Also, sales have decreased with people now downloading the song. Lets look at some digital sales.

Also if u put it up against a cd that came out around the same time the backstreet boys millennium Cd sold over 40 million in the world.

Also how many number one has Shaina had on the US hot 100 on billboard compared to Rihanna

“I warned you to stop this already. Drop this whole subject.”

Sounds like a threat, “Paul.”

Troy, you sound like such a real fool. Singles are counted differently now and they chart different with digital downloads.
And once again you tell a bold faced lie. The back street boys biggest album didn’t even come close to Shania’s bigges album.
Go and check the best selling albums of alltime worldwide. Shania has the 6th biggest global selling album of alltime and the Back street boys arent’ even in the top 10.
You need a serious reality check, Rianna is just a pop singer who has her singles chart high because of the way charts work now. But Rhianni would be a small time seller of albums in any era. For all the radio airplay she gets on pop radio she sells very little.
Big global icons are people like Shania who don’t concentrate on one chart and are on all formats. Thats why all of Shania’s huge singles straddle different charts without going #1 on a specific pop chart.
Shania’s songs are so more well known because they are classics known worldwide.
It doesn’t matter what era you talk in, Shania has the biggest female album of alltime and no female in history in any era has sold as much with an album as Shania did with Come on over.

What about contemporary album sales. From this decade?

I love that Toby Keith is not only a wonderful American but a Democrat!

Check this out:

http://www.reportell.com/index.php?view=article&catid=40%3Amusic&id=124&option=com_content&Itemid=66