Country radio is still holding a grudge against the Dixie Chicks for their criticism of President Bush. On next week's Billboard country singles chart, the Chicks' Travelin' Soldier drops from No. 3 to No. 23, losing nearly two-thirds of the previous week's airplay total. Darryl Worley's pro-war Have You Forgotten is up 20% and hits No. 1 after only five weeks in release.
Sales of Home dropped 42.3%, from 123,952 two weeks ago to 71,732 last week. The Chicks were outpacing other country albums by so much that they retained the No. 1 spot on Billboard's country album chart. (No. 2 was Shania Twain's Up! with 23,000 units.) The Chicks dropped from No. 4 to No. 6 on the Top 200 chart, and had the third-largest percentage drop among albums in the previous week's Top 10. On the catalog side, sales of both Fly and Wide Open Spaces fell by more than 25%, but they were still the two top-selling albums on Billboard's Top Catalog Country Albums chart.