Among the diverse 2023 inductees announced today are Willie Nelson, George Michael, Kate Bush and Rage Against The Machine while Iron Maiden and Soundgarden missed out even though they ranked in the Top 5 in the fan voting. Coldplay and MUSE were both eligible this year but could be nominated in 2024. IMO Iron Maiden and Motörhead also deserve to be inducted. In a message shared on their social media, RATM wrote: "It is a surprising trajectory for us to be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1991, four people in Los Angeles formed a musical group to stand where sound and solidarity intersect. We called ourselves Rage Against the Machine. "A band who is as well known for our albums as we are for our fierce opposition to the U.S. war machine, white supremacy and exploitation... "A band whose experimentation in fusing punk, rock and hip-hop became a genre of its own. "Many thanks to the Hall of Fame for recognizing the music and the mission of Rage Against the Machine. We are grateful to all of the passionate fans, the many talented co-conspirators we've worked with and all the activists, organizers, rebels and revolutionaries past, present and future who have inspired our art."

MUSE Top Venues Ranked by Total Career Estimated Grosses and Attendance: 1. Stade de France/Saint-Denis ($42 Million and 502,000 concert-goers at 7 shows from 2010-2023) 2. Wembley Stadium/London ($20.9 Million and 280,000 concert-goers at 4 shows in 2007 and 2010) 3. O2 Arena/London ($20.7 Million and 226,000 concert-goers at 13 shows from 2009-2023) 4. Foro Sol/Mexico City ($14.2 Million and 257,000 concert-goers at 4 shows from 2010-2023) 5. Stadio San Siro/Milano ($12.5 Million and 190,000 concert-goers at 4 shows from 2010-2023) 6. Bercy Arena/Paris ($12 Million and 190,000 concert-goers at 11 shows from 2003-2016) 7. Stadio Olimpico/Roma ($10.5 Million and 152,000 concert-goers at 3 shows from 2013-2023) 8. Stade Orange Velodrome/Marseille ($9.5 Million and 110,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2019 and 2023 9. Palacio de los Deportes/Mexico City ($9.4 Million and 188,000 concert-goers at 8 shows from 2007-2015) 10. AO Arena/Manchester ($8.9 Million and 118,000 concert-goers at 7 shows from 2003-2023) 11. Staples Center/Crypto.com Arena ($8.1 Million from 122,500 concert-goers at 8 shows from 2010-2023 12. Rod Laver Arena/Melbourne (US$7.7 Million from 76,000 concert-goers at 6 shows from 2007-2017) 13. Emirates Stadium/London ($7.4 Million from 89,500 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2013) 14. Stade de Suisse-Wankdorf/Berne ($7.3 Million from 76,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2010 and 2013 15. Goffertpark/Nijmegen ($7.1 Million from 115,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2010 and 2019) 16. Etihad Stadium/Manchester ($7.0 Million from 84,500 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2013 and 2019) 17. London Stadium/London ($6.65 Million from 72,700 concert-goers at 1 show in 2019) 18. Stade Matmut Atlantique/Bordeaux ($6.5 Million from 76,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2019 and 2023 19. Centre Bell/Montreal (US$6.4 Million from 109,000 concert-goers at 8 shows from 2010-2023) 20. Qudos Bank Arena/Sydney (US$6.35 Million from 60,000 concert-goers at 4 shows from 2010-2017) 21. RheinEnergie Stadion/Köln ($6.3 Million from 78,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2019 and 2023) 22. Bukit Jalil National Stadium'/Kuala Lumpur ($6 Million from 53,000 concert-goers at 1 show in 2023) 22. Hallenstadion/Zurich ($5.8 Million from 52,000 concert-goers at 4 shows from 2009-2019) 23. National Bowl/Milton Keynes ($5.6 Million from 50,000 concert-goers at 1 show in 2023) 24. Malieveld/The Hague ($5.5 Million from 67,000 concert-goers at 1 show in 2023) 25. Groupama Stadium-Parc OL/Décines-Charpieu near Lyon ($5.4 Million from 59,000 concert-goers at one show in 2023) 26. Ziggo Dome/Amsterdam ($5.3 Million from 83,000 concert-goers at 5 shows from 2012-2019) 27. Madison Square Garden/New York City ($5.2 Million from 82,500 concert-goers at six shows from 2007-2023) 28. United Center/Chicago ($4.6 Million from 67,000 concert-goers at 5 shows from 2010-2023) 29. Scotiabank Arena-Air Canada Centre/Toronto (US$4.6 Million from 81,000 concert-goers at 6 shows from 2010-2023) 30. Stadio Olimpico Grande/Torino ($4.4 Million from 63,000 concert-goers at 2 shows in 2013) 31. WiZink Center-Palacio de Deportes/Madrid ($4.3 Million from 79,000 concert-goers at 5 shows from 2006-2016) 32. Oracle Arena/Oakland ($4.3 Million from 63,000 concert-goers at 5 shows from 2010 to 2023) 33. Estadio Metropolitano/Madrid ($4.1 Million from 51,000 concert-goers at 1 show in 2019) 34. Mediolanum Forum di Assago/Milano ($4 Million from 75,000 concert-goers at 6 shows from 2006-2016)

MUSE Box Office Report from Pollstar 17 March 2023 - Madison Square Garden in New York, NY $1,414,150 Gross 13,099 Attendees Avg Ticket Price $107.96 [Compared with $79.22 for the MUSE gig at MSG in 2019 and $227.93 for the 15 shows Harry Styles performed at the same venue in 2022] Source: AEG Presents (Promoter) Updated audio and video streaming stats as of 25 June 2023: 5,885,161,822 plays for 255 tracks on Spotify 2,857,033,218 views for 296 videos on YouTube What MUSE song shares the same complex time signature as the iconic jazz standard Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet? What MUSE song with 20.3 million Spotify audio streams was first performed live in Salt Lake City in the USA n 2004? It features a highly chromatic chorus and a relative minor to major modulation with the following chords: E G♯m F♯ C♯m B Answers at the bottom of this post Most streamed MUSE B-sides on Spotify: 6.2 million - Eternally Missed 2.9 million - Easily 2.9 million - The Groove 2.8 million - Crying Shame Most streamed MUSE cover song by other artists on Spotify: 2 million - Soaked (by Adam Lambert) Animals with a 5/4 time signature and the first song Matt composed in E-Flat minor. Most MUSE songs are 4/4 with a few at 6/8 and 3/4. Animals and Hoodoo however both feature polymeters/polyrythms while Micro Cuts, Assassin and Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 2 have alternating/compound time signatures. Glorious. It resolves to B Major at the end. This beautiful track ranks in my personal Top 10 list.

The first MUSE album to be certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) in the USA by RIAA was Absolution in 2007 and the first single to be certified Gold was Starlight in 2009. The past six studio albums released by MUSE have all debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Album Sales chart in the USA: #4 Will Of The People* #6 Simulation Theory #1 Drones #2 The 2nd Law #3 The Resistance #9 Black Holes and Revelations #15 Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX [New Peak in July 2021] *It was the top selling new release on the Vinyl Albums sales chart in the USA with 8,000 copies sold on wax. It ranked at #3 behind previously released albums by Silk Sonic and Kendrick Lamar Career MUSE Global Album Sales: 20 million - Pure Album Sales 11 million - Streaming Equivalent Album Units [11 billion audio and video streams divided by 1,000 - UK chart rule] 1 million - Track Equivalent Album Units [10 million physical single/digital track sales divided by 10 - USA chart rule] 32 million - Total Estimated Equivalent Album Units

MUSE - WOTP World Tour Box Office Stats: North America Leg from January-April 2023 (28 shows) $35.5 million Est. Gross - 402,500 Est. Tickets Sold [Actual 137K+ Mexico; 58K Canada; and 207K USA] Avg Ticket Price: Ranging from $63 at Foro Sol in Mexico City to $75-$130 at arenas in Canada and the USA Theatre Tour Leg from October 2022 (8 shows in North America and Europe) $2 million Est. Gross - 19,000 Est. Tickets Sold 1st Quarter 2023 Box Office Update Top Tours by British artists for concerts held from January thru March 2023* Ed Sheeran - $94 million Gross (12 massive stadium shows in Oceania and six shows in the UK and Ireland) Harry Styles - $79 million Gross (18 shows in California, Oceania and Asia) Coldplay - $65.4 million Gross (11 massive March stadium shows in Brazil) Elton John - $51 million Gross (14 shows in Australia and the UK and Ireland) MUSE - $19 million Gross (18 shows in North America) The 1975 - $16 million Gross (18 shows in the UK, Ireland and Mexico) Depeche Mode - $13 million Gross (4 shows in North America) Florence + The Machine - $12 million Gross (14 shows in the UK, Ireland and Oceania) *All grosses are based on reported ticket sales and estimates for those dates not yet reported to Pollstar and Billboard Boxscore

During Matt's speech accepting Best Rock at the 2022 MTV EMAs in Düsseldorf, Germany in November 2022 he thanked the European fans for their support and dedicated the award to the people of Ukraine and the women of Iran who are fighting for their freedom Quotes from Matt at the Climate Pledge Arena gig in Seattle, WA on 18 April: "This song [Stockholm Syndrome] is 20 years old this year, wish I was..." "Two of my favourite guitarists [Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix] are from here..." All Apologies riff was played as an intro to WAFF - its second appearance on the WOTP tour after the Toronto theatre gig in October 2022 Other Nirvana jams or songs played by the band at various concerts in their career: Lithium - [MUSE, Rocket Baby Dolls and Gothic Plague] Endless Nameless Negative Creep School tourette's [In the early 90's at various venues in Devon]

'...It takes a leap of faith To awake from these delusions...' Propaganda, false narratives, conspiracy theories, demagoguery, gaslighting, psychological projection, fascism, jingoism, megalomania, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, malignant narcissism, sociopathy, schizophrenic paranoia, greed, corruption, kleptocracy, bullyism, intolerance et al Gig on 28 June 2016 at the Field of Mars* BHaR songs on the setlist at this venue: Knights of Cydonia MotP 'Fear and Panic [Phobos and Deimos] in the air...' Starlight SMBH TR songs: Uprising Resistance *MUSE played this show at the Parc du Champ de Mars in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower during the UEFA Euro 2016 football championship with around 50,000 fans in attendance. This large public park is named after the Roman god of war and has held military drills and parades in the past. A massacre took place here on 17 July 1791 against a crowd of republican protesters amid the French Revolution. Relationship Songs: Verona (Romeo & Juliet) I Belong To You (Samson & Delilah) Resistance (Winston & Julia) Unintended, Uno, Sunburn, Cave, Hate This & I'll Love You, Bliss, Feeling Good, Hyper Music, Endlessly, Falling Away With You, Eternally Missed, Starlight, Easily, Hoodoo, Undisclosed Desires, Guiding Light, Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever), Madness, Follow Me, Dead Inside, Something Human, Ghosts, Halloween, et al This polyphonic song recorded at Shangri La Studios in Malibu, CA in the back of Bob Dylan's tour bus is a rearranged version of 'Sanctus and Benedictus' by Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina to which Matt added the lyrics. Answer appears at the end of this post. British Bands and Flocks: A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Birds (Coldplay) A Flock of Sheep (MUSE - Matt's farm in Devon) Groovy songs: The Groove - MUSE [Inspired SMBH] Into the Groove - Madonna A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders and later covered by Phil Collins Groovin' - The Young Rascals Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic Darwin: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection MUSE: Origin of Symmetry, 'Unnatural Selection' Answer: 'Drones'

MUSE Box Office Report from Pollstar 6 April 2023 - Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA $1,568,543 Gross 12,811 Attendees Avg Ticket Price $122.43 [Inflation and Dynamic Ticket Pricing] Comparisons: Depeche Mode $235 and Harry Styles $186 at recent LA concerts at the Forum Source: AEG Presents (Promoter) UPDATE TOP CITIES RANKED BY ESTIMATED CAREER MUSE CONCERT TICKET SALES AT STADIUMS, ARENAS, THEATRES AND CLUBS Paris - Over 800,000 [Includes Saint-Denis] London- Over 780,000 Mexico City - Over 440,000 Milano - Over 275,000 [Includes Assago] Manchester - Over 255,000 Los Angeles - Over 200,000 [Includes Los Angeles and Orange counties] Madrid - Over 175,000 Roma - Over 150,000 New York City - Over 150,000 [Includes Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island and northern New Jersey suburbs] Moskva - Over 130,000 Köln - Over 120,000 Amsterdam - Over 120,000 Montreal - Over 110,000 Helsinki - Over 110,000 Marseille - Over 110,000 Nijmegen - Over 110,000 Lyon - Over 105,000 [Incudes Décines-Charpieu] Bern - Over 100,000 Lisboa - Over 100,000 Toronto - Over 100,000 [Includes Mississauga] San Francisco Bay Area - Over 100,000 [Includes Oakland and Mountain View] Melbourne - Over 90,000 Birmingham - Over 90,000 Glasgow - Over 80,000 Bordeaux - Over 80,000 Torino - Over 80,000 Sydney - Over 80,000 Berlin - Over 70,000 Quebec City - Over 70,000 Chicago - Over 67,000

'KOBK' has peaked at #14 on the latest Billboard rock airplay chart in America in its 12th week of release having received over 125 daily spins and a radio audience of 1 millon. WOTP has also now spent 34 consecutive weeks on the French albums chart compiled by SNEP. MUSE Career Gigs in the USA Top 3 Arena Venues: 122,500 tickets sold at Crypto.com Arena/Staples Center in Los Angeles at 8 shows (2010-2023) - Gross $8.1 million 82,500 tickets sold at Madison Square Garden in New York City at 6 shows (2007-2023) - Gross $5.2 million 67,000 tickets sold at United Center in Chicago at 5 shows (2010-2023) - Gross $4.6 million MUSE Career Estimated Concert Tickets Sold in the USA as Headliners (Excluding Festivals): 215,000 Will Of The People World Tour (2022-23) - Shows at 19 arenas and 3 theatres 160,000 Simulation Theory World Tour (2018-2019) - 21 shows at arenas and clubs 170,000 North American Tour w/ Thirty Seconds To Mars (2017) - 15 shows at amphitheatres 195,000 Drones World Tour (2015-16) - Shows at 23 arenas and 3 clubs (Psycho Tour) 370,000 The 2nd Law World Tour (2013) - 43 shows at arenas 330,000 The Resistance World Tour (2010) - 39 shows at arenas 140,000 Black Holes and Revelations World Tour (2006-2007) - 37 shows at clubs, arenas and amphitheatres 35,000 MTV Campus Invasion Tour w/ Razorlight (2005) - 22 shows at colleges 30,000 Absolution World Tour (2004) - 22 shows at clubs and theatres 0 Origin of Symmetry World Tour (2001-03) - Club show in NYC on 10 September 2001 apparently did not take place after the 8 September Reading USA festival w/ Eminem and Linkin Park in Camden NJ with MUSE as an opening act was cancelled 1,000 Showbiz World Tour (1999-2000) - 5 shows in 1999 at clubs and 8 shows at clubs after supporting RHCP and Foo Fighters on 14 dates of their arena tour in the spring of 2000 Over 1.6 million concert tickets sold in the USA and Approaching 9 million concert tickets sold worldwide...

They should play Absolution in its entirety later this year at a UK venue or at a festival next year to celebrate its 20th anniversary! Comparing the two-night MUSE stadium concerts in the UK and France in 2010 during The Resistance world tour: 146,931 attendees - Stade de France in June - Gross $9,446,491 (€7,679,824) 145,358 attendees -Wembley Stadium in September - Gross $10,776,892 (£7,003,348) MUSE have never played a gig in Slovenia but the wind orchestra in Ravne are fans. Their covers of SfA and KoC are especially good.

WOTP World Tour (91 gigs scheduled so far thru October 2023) Countries Ranked by Revenue* $25 Million - France (9 shows) $25 Million - USA (27) $20 Million - UK (11) Note: $1.1 million donated to various charities from the two Apollo shows at Hammersmith in May 2022 $12 Million - Germany (9) $10.5 Million - Mexico (5) $8 Million - Italy (4) $6 Million - Spain (5) $5.5 Million - Netherlands (2) $5.5 Million - Malaysia (1) $5 Million - Switzerland (2) $4.7 Million - Canada (5) $3 Million - Denmark (2) $3 Million - Austria (2) $1.5 Million - Belgium (1) $1.5 Million - Portugal (1) $1.5 Million - Czech Republic (1) $1.5 Million - Hungary (1) $1 Million - Greece (1) $1 Million - Ireland (1) *Unofficial estimated concert grosses from ticket sales and festival headliner artist fees

Absolution has also recently been certified Gold in Germany by BVMI for sales of 100,000 units. The last track on this album (Ruled By Secrecy) was last performed live on stage in Glasgow in October 2012. It is possibly the only song Matt has composed in the key of F minor and has some beautiful and unique chord progressions: Chorus: D♭ - B♭ - E♭ - C7 - Fm - E♭7 - A♭ - D7 Solo: Fm - C / E - Cm / E♭ - C Watch the awesome performance of this song at Glastonbury in 2004:

MUSE will likely have earned their highest grossing one-night concert of all time on 8 July 2023 with an estimated 7 million-plus euros (US$7.7 million) in box office revenue at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis as part of the WOTP World Tour surpassing the US$6.7 million earned for the band's one-night gig at London Stadium in June 2019. Career revenue at SDF for seven MUSE shows will total over US$40 million with just over 500,000 tickets sold. For gigs taking place in the first quarter of 2023, MUSE will have grossed an estimated US$19 million from 18 shows in Mexico, Canada and the USA with around 265,000 tickets sold. This will rank them in the Top 5 tours by British artists during the past three months: Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles each with around US$80-US$90 million for shows in Oceania and California/Oceania/Asia respectively and Coldplay and Elton John each with over US$50 million for shows in Brazil and Oceania/Europe respectively. American artist Taylor Swift will have grossed about $65 million from just 5 stadium shows in late March. She is on track to earn approx US$700 million from 52 stadium shows in the USA and perhaps US$1 billion for the entire calendar year 2023 from possible not yet announced legs in Europe and elsewhere. Song Trivia: This early MUSE track was originally titled Nova Scotia and was last played at a gig in Latvia features the following: Three modulations (Verses and main riff in D minor; the chorus in G minor; and the outro in D Major) Diminished fifth D Locrian scale What MUSE track in E minor with multiple chord progressions including a sample from Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and a reference to the H8 microcomputer is considered to be one ot the Top 3 most complex compositions in Matt's discography along with TaB and KoC? Answers: Cave Space Dementia

Kill Or Be Killed climbed to #20 on the latest published Mediabase Active Rock Airplay chart with over 500 weekly spins at that radio format in America. On the latest Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart it also jumped to #20 to become the band's sixth Top 20 track on that survey. WOTP occupies position #43 on the latest published France Top Albums Physiques chart by SNEP in its 27th consecutive week on that tally Plug In Baby will likely surpass 1,100 live career performances at the end of their WOTP worldwide tour which is by far the most played track in their discography with the first performance taking place at a club in Amterdam in January 2000. It was also played a couple times in America during their Showbiz tour including Brownies in New York City Fun facts: The early demo versions of PiB date back to 1997 with the final version with the JS Bach intro guitar riff completed in late 1999 and early 2000 when Matt was 19-21 years old. Some scholars believe Bach may also have composed his famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor in his late teens/early 20's circa 1703-1707. Bach was born in 1685. The three alternate versions of tracks from WOTP have now all surpassed 1 million streams on Spotify: Ghosts (featuring Elisa) - English/Italian version over 3 million streams Ghosts (featuring Mylène Farmer) - English/French version over 1.1 million streams KOBK (Felsmann and Tiley Reinterpretation) - Over 1.2 million streams The three MUSE covers with the most plays on Spotify: 126 million - Feeling Good 26 million - Can't Take My Eyes Off You 15 million - Hungry Like The Wolf The most viewed HAARP Live at Wembley tracks on YouTube: 29 million - Knights of Cydonia 24 million - Time Is Running Out 23 million - Hysteria The most viewed Live at Rome Olympic Stadium tracks on YouTube: 19 million - Plug in Baby 14 million - Starlight 11 million - Madness

O Canada! 50 career MUSE gigs in Canada including the two shows this week at Centre Bell in Montreal 18 April 2004 - First show in Canada at Le Spectrum in Montreal with a ticket price of $15 and attendance of 1,168 at the 1,200 capacity venue which was demolished in 2008 Gig Breakdown by Province: 21 Quebec; 17 Ontario; 6 Alberta; 5 British Columbia; and 1 Manitoba Certifications of MUSE albums and singles by Music Canada: 6 Platinum or Gold albums including Double Platinum The Resistance and 4 Platinum and Gold Digital Downloads including Double Platinum Madness Two rarities played at Montreal venues: Microcuts (2013) and Glorious (2004) Of the reportedly only 11 times my favourite bonus track Glorious has been performed on tour, 6 took place at various venues and cities in Canada in 2004, 3 were in the USA and 2 in the UK (O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2017 and Earls Court in 2004) ...Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux! ...God keep our land glorious and free! Fun facts: The Canadian national anthem interpolates the first few bars from Mozart's March of the Priests from The Magic Flute; the German national anthem's melody comes from Haydn's String Quartet in C Major; the Russian national anthem has a chord progression similar to Pachelbel's popular Canon in D; and the UEFA Champions League anthem is based on Händel's Zadok The Priest. Matt of course has also been influenced/inspired by several classical pieces by Rachmaninov, Chopin, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, and Elgar

2023 Mexico Gigs - Box Office Grosses $6.8 million and 107,270 attendance for the two shows at Foro Sol in Mexico City [Compared with $5 million and 94K+ attendance for the two shows at the same venue in 2019 and $5 million and 95K+ attendance for the four shows at the Palacio de los Deportes in 2013] $1.5 million and 16,485 attendance at Estadio Banorte in Monterrey $1.1 million and 13,000+ estimated attendance at Arena VFG in Guadalajara Sources: OCESA and Pollstar

What MUSE track has the same chord progression (I ii vi IV) as Halo by Beyonce [Composed by Ryan Tedder]; Delicate by Taylor Swift; and Adam's Song by blink-182? See answer below. Origin of Symmetry has just been certified Gold in Germany for sales of 150,000 units joining BHaR, TR, and T2L as the other certified MUSE albums in that market by the BVMI. Check out the orchestral version of a track from that album by Oliver Hodge: Starlight Chords: B, C♯m, G♯m, E Credit: David Bennett Piano on YouTube

The Minneapolis gig was awesome! I especially enjoyed the live versions of the seven songs they played from WOTP. The rotation song MotP is also one of my favourites and The Dark Side instrumental was a pleasant surprise. I even felt the heat sitting in Row X during the pyro. Matt played some snippets from Bach (Halloween) and Chopin (Prelude) on the piano which I appreciated. Perhaps a medley of some songs (Stockholm Syndrome, New Born, Assassin, Reapers, The Handler) or the Houston Jam like the band did during the ST tour would be welcome later in this tour too. Another audio-visual spectacle not to be missed! MUSE gigs I have attended over the years: 3 Minneapolis 3 London 3 Los Angeles 3 Washington DC/Baltimore

1. What BHaR song, one of Matt's most complex compositions, features the following musical theory elements: Three key changes: Em - Cm - G♯m - Em Classical pivot-chord and parallel key modulations E Dorian minor mode 2. What do Supermassive Black Hole, Resistance, Explorers, Paranoid Android, God Only Knows and Blackbird have in common with many works composed by JS Bach? 3. What are seven of the most common musical theory elements used by Matt in composing his songs? 4. What BHaR song is in the key of H (Germany and Scandinavia) and in the key of Si (France, Italy, and Spain)? 5. What ST track features harmonic minor, natural minor and melodic minor? 6. In what key is Showbiz track Unintended? 7. What are two MUSE songs with the most key changes/modulations? 8. What popular OoS track written mostly in C minor shifts to its parallel C Major key in the chorus? 9. What popular OoS track can be played in both Am and its relative C Major key? 10. What song from TR was promoted in early 2009 by a short video clip which featured a band member playing to some animals near a river? Answers below 2023 WOTP World Tour Sold-out gigs so far at venues in the following cities: Mexico City (Night 1) Chicago New York City Lyon Saint-Denis/Paris Bordeaux Nancy The Hague Plymouth Huddersfield Knights of Cydonia Counterpoint Chromatic Mediants; Harmonic Minor; Arpeggios; Key Changes/Modulations/Modal Interchange; Secondary Dominants; Augmented/Diminished Chords; and Triads Starlight in B Major (US and UK) The Dark Side Em although it begins and ends in E Major - It may employ modal interchange/borrowed chords and/or a Picardy Third Take A Bow and Exogenesis Symphony (Parts 1, 2, 3) - Take A Bow also is a good example of the Circle Of Fifths Bliss Citizen Erased Guiding Light with Dom playing a snare drum to sheep grazing on a grassy meadow in the countryside

KOBK climbs a few spots to #28 at rock radio in America in its second chart week on the latest weekly airplay tallies compiled by both Billboard and Mediabase even though they have different tracking weeks and may have a different panel of radio stations which report their monitored airplay to them January 2023 Box Office - Top Six Grossing Tours Elton John - Over $40 million at 8 stadium shows in Australia and New Zealand with 242K attendance Red Hot Chili Peppers - Over $15 million at 3 stadium shows in Australia and New Zealand with 116K attendance Harry Styles - Over $12 million at 4 shows in southern California with 62K attendance ENHYPEN - Over $10 million at 4 shows in Asia with 100K attendance [South Korean boy band] MUSE - $9.4 million at 4 shows in Mexico with 137K attendance Backstreet Boys - $8.5 million at 4 shows in Brazil with 120K attendance Sources: Pollstar and Billboard Boxscore

16-20 inches of snow fell this week in the Minneapolis metro area. The plows have now cleared the snow from Interstate highways 90, 94 and 35 in Wisconsin and Minnesota before Sunday's concert at Target Center. Saturday's gig at United Center in Chicago is officially sold out and next week's shows in Texas are also selling well especially in Austin and Dallas/Fort Worth. Looking forward to hearing Bring Me To Life from Evanescence and WSD, KOBK and possibly the debut of Verona from WOTP and perhaps even a cover or medley. My last concert at this venue in 2013 we got MOTP, Stockholm Syndrome, and Sunburn on the setlist.

Mainstream Rock Airplay in America Top-40 Debuts #6 Lost - LINKIN PARK (#1 Rock & Alternative Airplay with over 10 million audience and #4 Alternative Airplay) #34 Kill Or Be Killed - MUSE Source: Billboard (Tracking Week Ending 16 February 2023) Active Rock Airplay in America Top-40 Debuts #17 Lost (684 plays) #37 Killed Or Be Killed (200 plays) Source: Mediabase (Tracking Week Ending 11 February 2023) Milestones Achieved This Week Uprising 250 Million Views on YouTube for the official video 500 Million Streams on Spotify Sign Of The Times - Global Drone Warfare Top downloaded MUSE album at Apple iTunes this week with the latest current chart positions in various markets: Drones #6 Ukraine #12 Moldova #19 Latvia #23 Kyrgyzstan #24 Belgium #28 Luxembourg #35 Portugal #43 Israel #45 Romania #46 Russia #48 Malta #51 Canada #78 Mexico #82 Argentina #84 Netherlands #87 Indonesia #92 Malaysia #95 Poland #98 Colombia #98 Switzerland #103 Hong Kong #107 Germany #110 Finland #112 Austria #124 Spain #138 Turkey #146 Italy #168 France

Podcast interview with Chris. Life on the road and touring. https://anchor.fm/meetatthehotelbar?fbclid=PAAabwPKCetLoHlNkfdec0iFEEK_1vuUhgE0JV5YY3qrd6aQs_4wrqot0FR3Q

Kill Or Be Killed Most added track at Active/Mainstream Rock radio in America this week. It could become the band's 13th charting song on that airplay tally and the third from the latest album following #1 WSD and #23 WOTP. By comparison, three tracks (WSD #3, Compliance #13 and Halloween #22) have charted at Alternative radio in America Inspired by the Wings song Live and Let Die composed by Paul and Linda McCartney for the James Bond film The fourth MUSE song to feature the Phrygian Dominant scale after Stockholm Syndrome, United States of Eurasia and Break It To Me The third MUSE song to feature a tapping solo after Invincible and Reapers 2023 Grammy Award-nominated Best Metal Performance (Won by Ozzy Osbourne) The WOTP album has now spent 22 consecutive weeks on the France Top Physical Album Sales chart (#58 current position and #130 on the Top Albums chart compiled by SNEP) surpassing the 21 weeks on the UK Official Album Sales tally (last position ranking was #89) What does Ghosts (How Can I Move On) have in common with Call Me by Blondie? English, Italian and French lyrics sung by Matt, Elisa and Mylene on the former and by Debbie Harry on the latter What song was covered by The Gothic Plague [Matt + Dom] 30 years ago on 5 February 1993 at the Meadow Centre in Teignmouth and by MUSE at two festivals (Lollapalooza and Coachella) in April 2014 in Brazil and California, respectively? Lithium by Nirvana

WOTP 2023 World Tour Estimated Box Office Attendance: 16.5K Monterrey 13K Guadalajara 136K CDMX (62K first night sold-out at Foro Sol) 20K Montreal (Two shows) 20K Quebec City (Two shows) 12K-14K Toronto 14K-16K Los Angeles 12K-14K Anaheim 10K-12K Oakland 11K-13K Seattle 11K-13K Chicago 12K-14K New York City 9K-11K Philadelphia 48K-52K Lyon (Sold-out) 38K-40K Bordeaux (Sold-out) 20K The Hague (Sold-out) 20K Plymouth 25K Huddersfield 25K Milton Keynes 30K Glasgow 25K Bern 20K Vienna 20K Santander 25K Nancy (Sold-out) 75K Saint-Denis/Paris (SDF sold-out) 50K-55K Marseille (Near sell-out) 35K-40K Köln 45K-50K Milano 45K-50K Roma Notable UK artists who have sold the most concert tickets in their careers during multiple tours (in approx descending order): Rolling Stones Elton John Coldplay Paul McCartney (Solo, w/ Wings and w/ The Beatles) Rod Stewart Ed Sheeran The Who Def Leppard Depeche Mode Iron Maiden Roger Waters Fleetwood Mac Eric Clapton One Direction MUSE Sting Ozzy Osbourne (Solo and w/ Black Sabbath) Robbie Williams Pink Floyd Queen (w/ Freddie Mercury and w/ Adam Lambert) Harry Styles Genesis Led Zeppelin The Police Phil Collins The Moody Blues Take That David Bowie Adele Arctic Monkeys Florence + The Machine Bastille The 1975