Dixie Chicks Soar To The Top - Today In Country Music History

2002 Dixie Chicks Soar

The Dixie Chicks’ album Home debuted at the top of both the Country Albums chart and the Top 200 all formats chart with first week sales of 779,828 copies, besting the numbers of their previous CD, Fly, which earned first week sales of just over 341,000.

Home was the sixth studio album by the trio and featured the singles "Long Time Gone," "Landslide", "Travelin' Soldier" and "Top of the World". The group was promoting the album when lead singer Natalie Maines made controversial comments about U.S. President George W. Bush. The album's third single, "Travelin' Soldier", was #1 on the Billboard Country Chart the week that Maines' comments hit the press. The following week, as many stations started a still-standing boycott of the Chicks' music, the song collapsed. None of their following singles gained traction with country radio.

Despite these events, the album was certified 6× Multi-platinum status by the RIAA and has sold 5,979,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008. The album was nominated at the 45th Grammy Awards for 6 awards, including Album of the Year. The group went home with 4, including Best Country Album, Best Recording Package, Best Country Instrumental Performance and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Long Time Gone". Additionally, they were nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Darrell Scott was nominated for Best Country Song for Long Time Gone. Two years later, they were nominated and won Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, this time for "Top of the World".

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