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The Chicks
Band Dallas United States Formed 1989 US country trio, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks
The Chicks formed in 1989 in Dallas, United States. The Chicks has 29 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Not Ready To Make Nice”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #59. The station that charted The Chicks most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
The Chicks started out as the Dixie Chicks in Dallas in 1989, a bluegrass and country band that spent six years busking and working the festival circuit. Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily founded it with Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy; Macy left in 1992, and in 1995 Monument signed them and Natalie Maines took over the microphone. Maines's voice, all flinty twang, over Martie's fiddle and Emily's banjo and Dobro, turned out to be the missing piece.
Wide Open Spaces in 1998 and Fly in 1999 both went diamond, and they did it without sanding down the edges, from the wide-sky title track to the pitch-black comedy of "Goodbye Earl". In 2003, on stage in London, they criticized President George W. Bush and the looming Iraq War, and the backlash hit sales of their album Home hard.
They answered with Taking the Long Way in 2006 and "Not Ready to Make Nice", and then went quiet in 2008 while Martie and Emily recorded as Court Yard Hounds. Back on the road from 2016, they dropped "Dixie" from the name in 2020 and came back with Gaslighter, which ended a 14-year wait for a new album and whose title track and "March March" sounded angrier than ever. They have won 13 Grammys, and since US sales tracking began they have outsold every other all-woman band and every other country group.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Chicks on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not Ready To Make Nice | 6 | #59 | – | – | |
| 2 | Wide Open Spaces | 6 | #84 | – | – | |
| 3 | March March | 4 | #27 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Gaslighter | 2 | #28 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Landslide | 3 | #50 | – | – | |
| 6 | Goodbye Earl | 3 | #237 | – | – | |
| 7 | Sleep At Night | 2 | #81 | – | 2020 | |
| 8 | The Long Way Around | 2 | #749 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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