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- Feb 11, 200790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Dixie Chicks Sweep the Big Three With Five Grammys for "Not Ready to Make Nice"
- The Dixie Chicks were the biggest winners of the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 February 2007 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, winning all five categories they were nominated in[2][4]
- Record of the Year and Song of the Year went to "Not Ready to Make Nice" and Album of the Year to Taking the Long Way, completing a sweep of the big three[1]
- The song answered the backlash after Natalie Maines's 2003 comment about President Bush, which had cost the group fan and radio support[3]
- "For the first time in my life I'm speechless," Maines said, then quoted The Simpsons; Martie Maguire said what happened "drove us to make an album that said a lot"[4]
- Carrie Underwood won Best New Artist over James Blunt, Chris Brown, Imogen Heap and Corinne Bailey Rae[1]
- Mary J. Blige led the nominations with eight and won three, including Best R&B Album for The Breakthrough[2][4]
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- [1]90%grammy.com/awards/49th-annual-grammy-awardsgrammy.com· Posted Oct 3, 2026· Starts Feb 11, 2007 ✓· 50% of score
Wikipedia[2] says the 49th Annual Grammy[3] Awards 'were handed out on Sunday, February 11, 2007, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles'; NPR's[4] report is dated 12 February 2007.
- [2]75%49th Annual Grammy Awardsen.wikipedia.org· Added Oct 3, 2026· 50% of score
Gives the date, venue, the Dixie Chicks as biggest winners with five and Mary J. Blige's eight nominations.[1]
- [3]85%GRAMMY Rewind: 49th Annual GRAMMY Awardsgrammy.com· Published Oct 23, 2021· 0% of score
Grammy.com[1]: the Album of the Year win was vindication after singer Natalie Maines's 2003 remark cost the group fan and radio support; Carrie Underwood won Best New Artist.
- [4]90%'Nice' Reward: Five Grammies for Dixie Chicksnpr.org· Published Feb 12, 2007· Starts Feb 11, 2007· 0% of score
NPR, 12 Feb 2007: the Dixie Chicks took all five Grammys for which they were nominated, including Song of the Year; Mary J. Blige won three of eight.
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