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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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]
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'...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'
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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
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'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...
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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.
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Podcast interview with Chris. Life on the road and touring.
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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
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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
Rock‘n Roll Hall of fame
in Muse In the Media
Posted
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."