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The Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks don't need a plug from me. They're going to sell a lot of copies of their new CD Home. They had chart topping success with their last two efforts Fly in 1999 and Wide Open Spaces in 1998, selling more than 10 million copies, each. Even the dry spell resulting from their several year legal fight with Sony couldn't kill all the market momentum behind the Chicks. [read more]

Rhapsody has Wide Open Spaces and Fly. My Amazon Wish List now has Home in it.

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Joni Mitchell 'Ashamed' to Be in Music Business

"I just think it's a cesspool," the 58-year-old folk-rock icon said in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

"I hope it all goes down the crapper. I would never take another deal in the record business, which means I may not record again, or I have to figure out a way to sell over the Net or do something else. But I'll be damned if I'll line their pockets." [read more]

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Oblivion awaits

It's easy to fail in e-business; what's hard is failing magnificently. The Big Five music-recording companies have been transcendent in this respect. Their combined efforts have gone beyond killing their e- businesses and are close to destroying an entire industry.

Following are 10 rules of e-business failure, a list inspired by the recording industry's imaginative approach. [read more]

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