Country Is The New Rap
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With the exception of Kanye West, sales of hip hop records have been on the decline these last twelve months. Country, on the other hand, is experiencing a boom in sales!
This week, country trio Rascal Flatts sold 547,000 copies of their new album, Still Feels Good, which easily put them them in first place on the Billboard 200.
This is the band's third straight #1 album!
Last week, Reba McEntire was #1 with her Duets album.
Country is huge!
Other notable debuts this week include the latest offerings from Joni Mitchell, Queen Latifah and Chaka Khan, and Keyshia Cole.
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that's because country is awesome and so is rascal flatts.. they just did a show in nashville and raised almost 1 million dollars for the vanderbilt childrens hospital..
First! perezito whats up wit ur eye dude?
I LOVE rascall flatts. they're so awesome! fuck hiphop, it's disgusting, misogynist, and dated.
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Country is on the rise? So isnt Aids…..but that doesnt make it cool!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS COUNTRY ANYMORE. NOWADAYS COUNTRY MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE POP AND ROCK AND ROLL AND COUNTRY STARS DRESS LIKE ROCKERS. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS COUNTRY> I ALWAYS THINK OF JOHNNY CASH AND OTHERS, BUT APPARENTLY NOT.
FIRST?! Hate country music..
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country has sold out. no country stars sound like country anymore because they are too ashamed to.
First? Country will never be cool.
I'm Over Counrty Music
country music is still pretty lame though.
FIRST BITCHEZZ!!
Go Country!!!!
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Haha, lame.
Something Something…. Something Something just ain't right….
COUNTRY rules LUV RF's
That's right country music rules! Country music is sung with pain & dignity.
oh god, someone kill me. the only thing worse than country music is… damn, i can't think of anything. oh, here's one. people who say "first." asses.
Rascal Fatts.
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well, that's kinda good, but not this traditional and new country crap. GO ALT-COUNTRY! go d/l some Todd Snider. you can thank me later.
I love country music!!!
i love country yayayayayayayayayayayayaya
I hate country music. It is a piss poor excuse for music! Also racist homophobes listen to that SHIT!!
It's because the trailer trash that buy country still don't have computers or internet connections to download with. Not crazy about most hip-hop either, but most country is tripe.
perezilla has a black eye? maybe hank williams sr. rose from the grave and socked it to him? hmmmm…….
The Hip Hop / Rap scene has self destructed.
People are sick of ghetto playa fabulous idiots.
Re: carmela – Agreed.
Country is something I will NEVER like. It is too twangy, and just gives me the creeps!
First of all, this crap doesn't count as country. Secondly, I would pay at least ten dollars to never hear the voice of this band's lead singer again. He constantly sounds like he's just been kicked in the nuts. Choads, all of them.
McDonald's sells more hamburgers but that still doesn't make them any good. Country music sounds like rock that's why people buy it even that blond chick you won on american idol sounds more pop than country. That's the only reason country sells, because it sounds too much like rock.
GO COUNTRY!! COUNTRY GIRLS LOVE PEREZ TOO!
LeAnn Rimes will be releasing a new album next week, so expect a top 3 placing for her too!
Country music is and always has been amazing! True musical talent! Rap? WTF is that?
Rascal Flatts is amazing. See them live once and you'll get it…. They deserve all the success in the world!
Must be some smart rednecks considering country is the #1 genre in music… God, we're dumb….
Re: Gringo – Jackass, pretty much everyone has a computer, and not everyone who listens to country music is trailer trash. I download country and other musical genres almost every day and I would be willing to be my house, car, and computer are nicer than yours. Ya' know why? Because you wouldn't have to hate on people if you weren't insecure yourself.
It's because people who listen to country don't know how 2 torrent
Ali - They also did a pivate concert the night before their recent concert (that I attended for the second year in a row) that also benefits the Vanderbilt Children's hospital…not to mention the personal contributions they have made. They are really great guys and deserve all the success they have had and more! : )
Re: Brian – That is a really ignorant comment. You can't possibly believe that!
IM #1 RASCAL FLATTS FAN
Country is Huge because it's WHITE. White America is sick of RACIST, talentless black rappers cluttering up our airwaves. Take your Ignorance and Narcissism elsewhere blacks. No one's interested anymore. Whites have been pushed around for too long and we're not taking it anymore. We did nothing to you people.
It's because country music fans are too stupid to download for free.
THATS CAUSE RASCAL FLATTS IS AMAZING!!!!!
IVE SEEN THEM TWICE NOW…..AND THEY ARE THE BEST LIVE SHOW IVE EVER SEEN….AND YES THEY ARE STIL COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY'RE NOT….SO THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE FUN OF COUNTRY MUSIC ….THAT ITS STILL THE BEST AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the album is fantastic! even jamie foxx is on it!
That's because most country singers actually have talent and actually work for their fame. Unlike a bunch of wannabe gangsters using their stupid, diva-esque actions to get their fifteen minutes!
I mean think about it. Carrie Underwood was the only Idol winner to ever really make it big - because she's a country singer with actual talent, not some machine-produced, overly made-up pop "singer!"
Country FTW!
"put them them in first place on the Billboard 200."
Can you spell darling ? Or you only have dislexia ?
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I don't care what you call it, pop, rock, country, WHATEVER, it's great to her that other shit music is dying a fast death. I mean shit that people have called music.
ROCK is about to make a huge comeback. Hip Hop/rap is DEAD. People want real TALENT….people who can write their own music, play their own instruments and sing LIVE. Imagine that! It takes ZERO talent to rap, any idiot on the street can do it. Rappers don't write their own music they just steal beats from old rock/disco songs. All this shit sounds the same. Bye Bye P.Duddy and Kayne! Your egos are about to get a big KNOCK DOWN. HAHAHAHAHAHA
These dumb white kids are finally wising up to the fact that their rap heros are losers who hate whites, treat women like shit and are tacky low lifes selling narcissism and greed. Rappers do not "speak for the people" they sell the people a LIE while they get rich off it.
Talk about an insult to Country MUSIC, rap is literally crap put out by illiterate retards who like to exploit women and get drunk.
Talk about an insult to Country MUSIC, rap is literally crap put out by illiterate retards who like to exploit women and get drunk.
Talk about an insult to Country MUSIC, rap is literally crap put out by illiterate retards who like to exploit women and get drunk.
Talk about an insult to Country MUSIC, rap is literally crap put out by illiterate retards who like to exploit women and get drunk.
Talk about an insult to Country MUSIC, rap is literally crap put out by illiterate retards who like to exploit women and get drunk.
There is some horrid country music out there, but there are a select few artists and bands that are really amazing. People that just dismiss all country music because it's country are really missing out.
Won't it be HILARIOUS to laugh at Kayne on the unemployment line? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA He's probably too stupid to even invest his money, he'll end up broke like MC hammer! Hey Kayne, I got a pair of parachute pants I can send ya! LMAO! Can't touch this!
#45 SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID TROLL> NOBODY PUSHED ANYBODY AROUND AND FORCED THEM TO BUY RAP THEY DID IT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TOO BITCH!! COUNTRY GETS HOT FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND ALL THE COUNTRY FANS GET HAPPY, BUT BELIEVE ME IT WON'T LAST. RAP NEEDS TO DIE BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY NOW. JUST SO PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHAT GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC IS: BLUES, JAZZ, GOSPEL, RHYHMN & BLUES, SOUL, ROCK & ROLL. COUNTRY WILL NEVER BE COOL AND THEY KNOW IT AND THEY ALL TRY TO ACT, DRESS AND SING LIKE ROCK STARS.
that's because COUNTRY and especially RASCAL FLATTS ROCKS!!!! I went to their concert and was invited backstage and made out with Jay all night… and they gave us free tickets for the next night. and i got to go back to jason aldean's tour bus and he sang for me and my friends…
i love them…. and i am a groupie… haha
Us older folks are really excited about the new Springsteen CD MAGIC. Please don't forget us Rock n Roll geezers Perez!!!
COUNTRY ROCKS!
That cuz poor white trash don't know how to download free music. Stupid red-staters!
Re: Bonzer – So we are stupid for not downloading stuff for free, which is illegal unless the artist okays it? Guess us rednecks must have good jobs since we can afford all those country CD's and "yes we paid for them" downloads. Also interesting, the Tim McGraw/Faith Hill concert in 2006 was one of Los Angeles' biggest concerts of the year, all nights sold out.
Saw Mick Jagger on an interview recently and he got really insulted when the host suggested that his song sounded like country. I'm from the south and believe you me, not all of us listen to country music. The blues and rock and roll is still big down here and always will be. Country fans are some of the most insecure folks you will ever meet. easily insulted if you don't like their music, which is just sad to be so insecure about yourselves. Just look at the way they treated the Dixie Chicks.
Re: GERALDO – You've never heard REAL country, have you ? Try growing some class before you go knocking down on one of the greatest, most well-established genres of music this world has ever seen.
Re: GERALDO – You've never heard REAL country, have you ? Try growing some class before you go knocking down on one of the greatest, most well-established genres of music this world has ever seen.
I think country is getting bigger cause most other radio is going DOWN THE SHITTER.
REGULAR RADIO SUCKS.
I don't think people know what music is anymore.
I think country is getting bigger cause most other radio is going DOWN THE SHITTER.
REGULAR RADIO SUCKS.
I don't think people know what music is anymore.
I think country is getting bigger cause most other radio is going DOWN THE SHITTER.
REGULAR RADIO SUCKS.
I don't think people know what music is anymore.
The golden age for American music was indeed during the 1960's when Motown, Rock and Roll ruled!! Rhyhmn & blues is still huge in Europe.
YEAH AND THE SKY IS BLUE?! THANKS FOR REGURGITATING INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PUBLIC FOR TWO DAYS NOW.
AGAIN, YOU ARE NOT A MUSIC RAG, STOP TRYING TO BE.
COUNTRY IS THE LARGEST IN SALES RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE MOST CUNTRY BUMPKINS DONT KNOW HOW TO OPERATE A COMPUTER AND ARE PRACTICALLY THE ONLY BREED STILL BUYING CDs. WHY DONT YOU TELL US ABOUT THE CASSETTE TOP 100? MAYBE COUNTRY IS HUGE THERE AS WELL?
AND TO THE IDIOT THAT SAYS THAT COUNTRY MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE ROCK AND ROLL… YOU MUST BE INBRED
#68 Are you talking about twangy hank williams, tennesse earnie ford and the rest of those yodeling hillbillies? No thanks, I've seen those commercials selling that shit with those awfulsingers.. Country music today simply tries to be more like rock and roll and pop and that is the only reason some folks are buying that trailer trash billy bob, face the facts dude.
Country fans buy music because they don't have computers to download it for free.
#70,71,72, You hit the nail right on the head!!! You are more correct than anybody else making comments!!
Oh please, just because a couple acts in country music are successful does not mean country is huge. If anything their sales have been down since the hicks in the South went ballistic and started telling people what they could and couldn't say(Dixie Chicks). I love how Rush Limbaugh can literally insult the soldiers in Iraq by calling them fake, but if Natalie Maines says she is embarassed to be from the same state as George W., she is the one who is unpatriotic. Hypocrisy in action folks.
LOL nUMBERS 68,69, are you shittin me? The greatest music form?? On what fucking planet?? Number 67 I see what you mean, these poor inbred fools are delusional. They sell a few more records for a short time and they whoop and holler, clap themselves on the back and all. Sad and insecure much?
EXACTLY. The Dixie Chicks are great and look what the hillbilly's did to them. Three, talented women with a brain who spoke the truth and the country fans tried to destroy them. Now the chicks are moving to California where people are not penalize for telling the truth.
wiggers are going back to their hillbilly roots.
Country CD's are still selling big because the fucking hayseeds who buy them are too stupid to figure out what an mp3 is. Most of these hicks just stopped buying cassettes!
That's because the rednecks who listen to country are to stupid to figure out how to download the music for free!!!
Re: KAYNE YOU ASSHOLE! – You dumb ass….learn how to spell his name! It's KANYE!!! You dumb ass idiot!
It really could be that country music fans in general aren't tech-savy enough to download pirated copies?
HIP HOP IS SO OVER….I USED TO LOVE IT, BUT NOW…BAAAAAAARFFFF! BARF!
if that lead singer waxes his eyebrows any more he's gunna have to start drawing them on, i'm glad to see the gays are going into other ranges of music like country.
right don't mention 50 cent who had higher sales than rascal flatts you biased fucker
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
#85 The Blues Is and had always been the music of the people, the original genre and the best. You are very delusional because R & B has always been huge since the 1950's, it has waxed and waned, but has always been a top seller. Jimi Hendrix was originally in Blues not country dumb ass. All of the great rock bands of the 1960's in England and America were rooted in the Blues, so get your facts straight. Rock and rhymn and blues has always been in a higher category than country. And for the idiot who said that wiggers were going back to their roots in country, dream on. I am white but I hate that stupid term because white america as europe has always been in love with black american music. From jazz to gospel to blues to doo-wop- to rock and roll to r& b to hip hop and whatever comes next.
Rap died because it deserved it. When it first came out it was meaningful and political now it's all about the money, so Nas is right.
That's cause Kayne West is a racist piece of crap & I wouldn't buy his album with a gun pointed at my head. That being said, bought Rascal Flatts the day it came out. Met them too, they are wonderful guys!
I just polled 10 total strangers on the street and NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HEARD OF RASCAL FLATTS OR COULD NAME A SINGLE SONG HE'S RECORDED.
I just polled 10 total strangers on the street and NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HEARD OF RASCAL FLATTS OR COULD NAME A SINGLE SONG HE'S RECORDED.
Well hip hop has reigned for how long now? Who cares if the crap they play on MTV and the radio dies out? True hip hop fans don't listen to that crap anyway, so nobody cares. Most real fans wanted that shit to go the way of the dinosaurs. Country will always be crap music. I mean look at what ruled the charts from 98-01, Britney, N'sync, BSB…VOMIT. Americans have terrible taste in music and any thing that has ruled the charts has always been garbage since the disco era. Real good music never sells.
I just polled 10 total strangers on the street and NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HEARD OF RASCAL FLATTS OR COULD NAME A SONG HE'S RECORDED. I'm convinced the only people who but that redneck twangy shit live in log cabins in the Ozarks, fuck their sisters and smoke corncob pipes.
Perez is such a racist ass-hole Keyshia Cole came in #2 she should not have been related as other notables I have the soundscan in front of me I work in the music inductry get off Kangay's DICK Perez!!
1. RASCALL FLATS
2. KEYSHIA COLE
3. FOO FIGHTERS
4.JILL SCOTT
5. KANGAY WEST
The only reason country is still selling records is because country music fans don't know how to download from the internet.
Chumps are still paying for it!
The Dixie Chicks were the best thing to ever happen to country dumb ass music and those hicks were too stupid to appreciate them. Now they don't want anything to do with you Beverly Hillbillies because you wouldn't know good musicans from bad to save your life. All of this country stuff just tries to sound like rock and roll to try to trick people into buying it. Country music really doesn't exist anymore, just ask Dolly parton, Randy Travis, and all the other true country stars.
I think it's pretty awesome that they supported Virginia Tech (check out the guitar on the far left).
IS THE LEAD SINGER REALLY GAY??? SOMEONE ON THIS POST IS SPREADING THAT NASTY RUMOR.
NASHVILLE IS ASHAMED OF REAL COUNTRY MUSIC LIKE LORETTA LYNN, DOLLY PARTON, RANDY TRAVIS, TRAVIS TRITT,MERLE HAGGARD AND OTHERS AND DON'T ENDORSE THEM. COUNTRY FANS ARE INSECURE AND HAVE A CHIP ON THEIR SHOULDERS IF YOU DON'T LIKE COUNTRY, NOW THEY ALL WANT TO BE ROCK STARS. THEY ALL SOLD OUT TO NASHVILLE INTEREST. i STILL DON'T THINK COUNTRY IS THE MOST DOWNLOADED MUSIC THOUGH.