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MUSE debuts on the Billboard charts in the States for the first time on the two tallies below both dated 10 April 2004:
Alternative Airplay
#38 'Time Is Running Out'
Heatseekers Albums [Ranking below Billboard 200]
#13 Absolution
Which MUSE song written in 3/4 time with synth arpeggios ascends by fourths anti-clockwise on the circle of fifths moving through every key except for E and A and features 10 augmented triad chords and 36 unique chords in total and was influenced by Philip Glass? Answer below
Multiple Instruments Played:
Harpsichord, Organ and Violin by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at age 8 in April 1764 at the Buckingham House in Westminster, London for King George III and Queen Charlotte
Harpsichord, Piano, Keyboards, and Guitar by Matt Bellamy at age 22 in early 2001 at Real World Studios in Box, Wiltshire, England during the recording of Origin Of Symmety
Organ by Matt in 2001 at St. Mary's Church in Bathwick, Somerset, England during the recording of 'Megalomania' for OOS and at The Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London playing 'Megalomania' at a charity concert there in April 2008
'Take A Bow' Indictment of corrupt world leaders and politicians
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“April the 4th, 1984
To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - Greetings!”
- George Orwell, 1984 [Diary Entry by Winston Smith]
'...Kill your prayers for love and peace
You'll wake the thought police..."- Matt Bellamy, 'Resistance'
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United Kingdom
BRIT Certified/BPI - 22.03.2024
MUSE Black Holes & Revelations Helium 3/Warner Records Platinum 4x Album 1.2 Million EQ Units SoldFrance
SNEP Certified - 29.02.2024
L’album Will Of The People de MUSE est certifié Platine 100 000 équivalents ventes
Bravo!!
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Over two million people have watched MUSE perform at headlining concert and festival gigs in 2022-23:
1.2 million at stadiums and open air fields/arenas/theatres (60 x 20K rounded avg attendance)
1.1 million at festivals (27 x 40K rounded avg attendance including five massive festivals in Germany)
Estimated Breakdown by Region:
1.450 million - Continental Europe (300K+ in both France and Germany and 100K+ each in Spain and Italy)
550K - North America (Including four festivals in the US and Mexico)
250K - British Isles (England, Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Wight)
50K+ - Asia (Malaysia)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!
Hiatus for the band presumably but Matt has been in the studio recording new music possibly a score/theme for a video game or a movie soundtrack. In the past Matt collaborated on The International movie end title in 2009 and he composed 'Pray' for the Game of Thrones.
Tumult and uncertainty in geopolitics
Best Wishes
Peace and Joy
Cheers
السلام عليكم
Fin
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Christmas Day No. 1 Songs in the USA
Billboard Charts
Madness / MUSE (2012) - Alternative Airplay - 19 weeks at the summit
Uprising / MUSE (2009) - Alternative Airplay - 17 weeks topping the chart
Telstar / Tornados (1962) - Hot 100 - 3 weeks leading the pop chart
Will Of The People re-enters the Top 200 Albums chart in France at #194 in the week before Christmas. It has spent a total of 49 weeks on this tally. The album has also now spent the past 70+ consecutive weeks on the Top 200 Albums Physiques list in France according to SNEP. Its current position is #126.
The most played MUSE tracks on the SiriusXM satellite radio/streaming platform in North America in the past month are:
Starlight
TIRO
SMBH
Uprising
Madness
Hysteria
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First MUSE headlining arena concert in the UK took place where?
Which album world tour did the Devon trio play the most number of shows?
In which calendar year did the band perform the most gigs?
Answers below.
Career MUSE Touring Stats
Top Venue: Stade de France (7 shows) 498K Estimated Tickets Sold US$40.5 Million [€33.8 Million] Gross
Number of different countries/nations/markets by continent where the band has played gigs:
34 in Europe [Including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; Ukraine; and Russia]
10 in Asia [Including Mainland China, Hong Kong S.A.R and Taiwan; Japan; Republic of Korea; Singapore, Malaysia; Indonesia; Thailand; and the UAE]
5 in South America
3 in North America
2 in Oceania
1 in Africa55 in total
London Docklands Arena on 13 November 2001
Black Holes and Revelations Tour - 195 shows from 2006-2008
2000 - 149 gigs
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Pollstar reported their top 2023 year-end tours today. Their tracking period runs from mid-November 2022 thru mid-November 2023.
35. MUSE $64.9 Million Gross 676K Tickets Sold Reported Shows 39 Unreported Stadium Shows 10 (France, Italy, Netherlands, Malaysia, Spain) $40 Million Est. Gross 450K Est. Tickets Sold
Note: Pollstar made estimates for Taylor Swift since her team has not reported stats from any of her 60+ shows she has performed in 2023.
UPDATE
Highest-Grossing Concert Tours of all time:
$2.2 Billion (Est.) - Taylor Swift - Eras Tour (2023-24) - Assuming USD 14.5 million avg gross per show x 151 10 Million Tickets Sold
$1.1 Billion (Est.) - Coldplay - Music of the Spheres Tour (2022-24) - Assuming USD 6.5 million avg gross per show x 175 10 Million Tickets Sold
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Billboard Boxscore Top 2023 Tours
MUSE WOTP World Tour $92.7 Million Gross 1 Million Tickets Sold 45 Reported Shows
Tracking Period November 2022 thru September 2023
Note: The earnings from the two O2 arena gigs ($4M) in London and from two other shows ($7.5M) during the summer were not reported. Billboard does not make estimates for unreported shows.
The top six British artists in the Top 20 sold 13 million tickets and generated over $1.4 billion in ticket sales revenue during this period: 2. Coldplay; 3. Harry Styles; 5. Ed Sheeran; 9. Depeche Mode; and 20. MUSE.
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WOTP Tour Estimated Box Office by Year
2023
$104 Million Gross - 1.1 Million+ Tickets Sold - 49 Shows (Arenas, Stadiums, Open Air Parks in North America, Europe and Asia)
2022
$4 Million Gross - 46K Tickets Sold - 11 Shows (Theatres in North America and Europe + Stadium in Vigo, Spain)
Avg Ticket Price: $93
Number of Festival Headliner Shows in 2022-23
27
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Below is a break-down of attendance and ticket sales revenue for MUSE shows at the AO arena in Manchester, England by year:
2003 14,663 $366,076 £219,945 (1 show)
2006 29,053 $1,561,258 £798,957 (2 shows)
2012 18,754 $1,500,368 £931,888 (1 show)
2016 37,777 $3,276,303 £2,280,325 (2 shows)
2023 14,584 $1,637,472 £1,298,460 (1 show)
Total 114,831 $8,341,477 £5,529,575 (7 shows)
Sources: Pollstar and various promoters
TOP BRITISH VENUES FOR MUSE SHOWS RANKED BY CAREER ESTIMATED USD GROSSES
$20.9M Wembley Stadium London [#2 £12M] - 4 shows
$20.7M O2 Arena London [#1 £14.8M] - 13 shows
$8.3M AO Arena Manchester - 7 shows
$7.4M Emirates Stadium London - 2 shows
$7.0M Etihad Stadium London - 2 shows
$6.7M Olympic Stadium London - 1 show
$5.8M National Bowl Milton Keynes - 1 show
$3.4M Old Trafford Cricket Grounds Manchester - 1 show
$3.2M John Smith's Stadium Huddersfield - 1 show
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Updated Sales in the UK:
Black Holes & Revelations - 1,194,410 units (Approaching Quadruple Platinum)
Absolution - 994,137 units (Triple Platinum)Sources: Official Charts Company, Music Week and BPI
Album Chart Positions in other Markets:
Absolution XX Anniversary*
#16 Spain (Top Vinyl Albums) - Reentry
#27 Belgium Wallonia (Top 200 Albums) - Reentry
#31 Netherlands (Top Vinyl Albums) - Reentry
#53 Germany (Midweek Album Top 100) - Reentry
*Limited Quantities Deluxe Box Set Remastered
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Supermassive Black Hole becomes the 2nd single to surpass 500 million streams on Spotify. Uprising currently has over 550 million on this platform.
MUSE, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, Blondie, and Dolly Parton are among the artists who have recorded iconic songs and albums at this recording studio located at 6000 W Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, California. Details below:
Absolution (Overdubbing/Mixing album and finish recording tracks Intro, Endlessly and Falling Away With You)
Pet Sounds
Good Vibrations and California Girls
Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'
The Tide Is High and Rapture
9 to 5 Soundtrack
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Recorded at Studios Three and Five at Cello Studios (Current Name EastWest Studios and Former Name United Western Recorders from 1961-1984)
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Absolution (XX Anniversary + OG)
UK Album Chart Positions per the Official Charts Company
#2 Rock & Metal Albums
#5 Vinyl Albums
#20 Physical Albums (CDs+Vinyl)
#21 Album Sales, Downloads
#26 Scottish Albums (Highest chart position since February 2004)
#27 Albums Top 100 - Midweek Update
#74 Albums Top 100 - Full Week (Matches its last chart appearance position in July 2010)
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I purchased the box set and enjoyed the very informative interview with the band and the producer, the photos, and the extras and demos especially B&H, RBS, and the live versions of SfA and Blackout recorded at the Ancient Theatre of Vienne in France in 2004. That venue was constructed by the Romans in Gaul between 40-50 A.D.
An overview/synopsis below of the album and why it deserves to be considered one of the magnum opuses of the MUSE repertoire:
https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/absolution-muse-album-story/
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Discussing the themes of Absolution and the album cover
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UK Albums Chart Update
"Muse’s Absolution looks to return to the Top 40 for the first time since 2004 thanks to a 20th anniversary reissue."
It currently occupies position #27 based on weekend sales and streams. It sold several hundred copies at the Amazon retailers in the UK and the States.
Source: Official Charts Company
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Absolution XX Anniversary
First Days of Release Album Peak Chart Positions
Apple Music - Streaming
#22 Lithuania
#25 Latvia
#26 Netherlands
#35 Luxembourg
#35 Switzerland
#36 Norway
#37 Finland
#37 Laos
#39 Oman
#39 Tajikistan
#42 Bolivia
#47 Ireland
#47 Malta
#49 Portugal
#53 United Kingdom
#57 Maldives
#58 Spain
#58 Indonesia
#60 Austria
#61 Ukraine
#62 Malaysia
#62 Sweden
#64 Mexico
#65 Qatar
#70 Italy
#76 Turkey
#77 Serbia
#78 France
#78 Bulgaria
#80 Greece
#81 Belgium
#90 Estonia
#93 Poland
#93 Ecuador
#94 Peru
#95 Singapore
#96 South Korea
#97 Chile
#97 Croatia
#98 Israel
#107 Argentina
#108 Denmark
#126 Germany
#131 Colombia
#139 Australia
#146 Romania
#177 Thailand
#188 Brazil
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Absolution XX Anniversary
First Days of Release Album Peak Chart Positions
Apple iTunes Digital Downloads
#1 Chile
#2 Netherlands
#2 Romania
#4 Singapore
#4 South Africa
#7 United Kingdom (#3 Rock Genre)
#9 France
#10 Thailand
#11 Mexico
#12 Turkey
#12 Uzbekistan
#16 Australia
#17 Belgium
#26 Italy
#48 Canada
#49 Germany
#63 United States (#11 Rock Genre) - $29.00
#65 Romania
#93 Japan
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Your post on 20 June in the Gigs thread
"It was almost sold out I think, 20.000 people were there."
You made a very good estimate of the number of concertgoers at this venue. The Wiener Neustadt show was the highest-attended and highest-grossing gig for MUSE in Austria surpassing the number of fans who attended arena shows in Graz (14,365)and Vienna (15,304) in 2019 and 2016 respectively.
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More 2023 WOTP Tour Box Office reported by promoters to Pollstar:
24,952 Attendance at Bernexpo, Bern, Switzerland $4,181,971/CHF 3,672,156 Gross - Gadget ABC Entertainment Group AG - Avg Ticket Price $167.56
19,217 Attendance at Stadion Wiener Neustadt, Austria $1,704,436/€1,590,921 Gross - Barracuda Music GmBH - Kudos to Claudia!!
11,959 Attendance at 3Arena, Dublin, Republic of Ireland $1,145,774/€1,058,384 Gross - Live Nation / Gaiety Investments (MCD Productions)
Some Notable Socio-Political Songs by MUSE, Green Day and RATM:
Collateral Damage (A cold term used by politicians and the media to trivialise the killing of completely innocent people in war)*
Drones
Intro + Apocalypse Please
Take A Bow
Uprising
Resistance
Animals
Thought Contagion
Propaganda
Will Of The People
Compliance
American Idiot
Holiday
The American Dream Is Killing Me
Township Rebellion
Sleep Now In The Fire
Bulls On Parade
*This outro features a somewhat altered rendition of Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb by Frédéric Chopin and additional sounds such as children laughing, sounds of machine guns, explosions, and ending with the sound of a jet fighter flying overhead. In an interview with Absolute Radio, Matt said during the recording of United States of Eurasia + Collateral Damage, they wanted to have a lot of warfare-type sound effects in addition to the kids playing and the jet taking off. "We wanted to go record sounds of real warfare... we wanted to go to the Middle East but it turns out that's not a good idea is it?".
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Absolution era tracks by key:
Apocalypse Please - F♯ minor
Time is Running Out - A minor
Sing For Absolution - D minor [i VI II i - Dm B♭ E Dm - Classical Chord Progression] Shout-out to David Bennett Piano on YT
Stockholm Syndrome - D minor
Falling Away With You - C Major
Interlude - A minor
Hysteria - A minor
Blackout - B♭ Major
Butterflies & Hurricanes - D minor
The Small Print - B minor
Fury - A minor
Endlessly - A minor
Thoughts Of a Dying Atheist - G minor
Ruled By Secrecy - F minor
The Groove - F♯ minor
Eternally Missed - A minor
Soldier's Poem - D Major (Moved to BHaR)
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UPDATE
Below is a break-down of attendance and ticket sales revenue for MUSE shows at the O2 arena in London by year:
2009 38,130 $2,143,494 £1,303,012 (2 shows)
2012 34,200 $2,854,786 £1,766,335 (2 shows)
2016 92,167 $8,202,360 £5,708,895 (5 shows)
2019 30,600 $3,566,648 £2,934,040 (2 shows)
2023 31,233 $3,871,691 £3,070,120 (2 shows)
Total 226,330 $20,638,979 £14,782,402 (13 shows)
Sources: Pollstar and promoters
Universal Melodies was reportedly the first proposed title of the band's third studio album Absolution. Some of the songs were written at a loft in Hackney in northeast London. The first two tracks recorded for the album were Butterflies and Hurricanes and Blackout.
Apocalypse from the Greek means to reveal or uncover. It is often associated with biblical end times.
Early versions of six Abso tracks (Hysteria, AP, TSP, B&H, SS, and Fury) made their live debut at two gigs in Russia in May 2002.
Several promo videos directed by Tom Kirk were made for track Apocalypse Please: A live performance from the 2004 Glastonbury gig and this one below
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TOP TOURING ARTISTS OF ALL TIME RANKED BY CAREER HEADLINING CONCERT TICKETS SOLD*
BRITISH BANDS
The Rolling Stones > 29 Million
Coldplay > 22 Million
Def Leppard > 11 Million
Depeche Mode > 10 Million
Iron Maiden > 9 Million
MUSE > 8.5 Million
Fleetwood Mac > 8 Million
One Direction > 7 Million
The Who > 7 Million
Pink Floyd > 6 Million
Genesis > 6 Million
The Police > 5 Million
The Moody Blues > 4 Million
Take That > 4 Million
Queen > 3 Million
The Cure > 3 Million
Mumford & Sons > 3 Million
Arctic Monkeys > 2 Million
*Sources: Pollstar and Wikipedia
# of MUSE Career Supporting Gigs for the Bands below:
18 Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999-2000, 2002) - 14 in the USA and 4 in France, Germany, and Italy - Foo Fighters were also on the bill at most of these shows
16 U2 (2009, 2011) - 9 in the USA and 7 in South America
14 LIVE (1999) - Europe
13 Bush (2000) - Europe
11 Skunk Anansie (1999) - UK
10 The Cure (2004) - Curiosa Tour in the USA - 2nd stage - An additional 3 shows were cancelled due to a wrist injury suffered by Chris
10 My Chemical Romance (2007) - USA - An additional 8 scheduled shows were cancelled due to food poisoning affecting some of the crew
9 Feeder (1999) - UK
9 Gene (1999) - UK
1 Rage Against The Machine (2011) - USA - L.A. Rising in the USA
1 Depeche Mode (2006) - Sweden
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Taylor Swift and MUSE - Have they seen each other perform in concert?
Attendance For The 4 MUSE UK Gigs In May and June 2023
52,964 Milton Keynes
30,188 Huddersfield
26,485 Glasgow
24,711 Plymouth
Total Tickets Sold: 134,348
Total Gross: £10,962,103 ($13,883,383)
Avg Ticket Price: £81.59 ($103.34)
Source: SJM Concerts and DEAG/Kilimanjaro Live as reported to Pollstar
Taylor Swift watched MUSE perform track 'WOTP' in Düsseldorf, Germany in November 2022 at the MTV EMAs. Matt attended one of Taylor Swift's 1989 tour concerts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in August 2015. Taylor Swift and MUSE both also performed at the 2012 MTV EMAs in Frankfurt, Germany. When the Eras Tour concludes, Taylor Swift will have likely grossed about $3 billion dollars in ticket sales revenue from all of her six concert tours from 2009-2024 which may rank her as the Greatest Touring Artist of All Time possibly surpassing the Rolling Stones which have generated over $2.6 billion in concert grosses in their legendary career since the 1960s to the present.
Audible book „1984“ - music by Matt
in Songs & Releases
Posted · Edited by muse samuse
https://matthewbellamy-ilaneshkeri.probitymerch.com/bundles/1984-exclusive-box-set-na
Box set includes the OST on vinyl and cassette, an art booklet, a signed lithograph, and a T-shirt. The album contains over 45 minutes of the score.
The 1984 audiobook has been the #1 best selling dystopian book at Amazon this past week ranking in the Top 30 among all audible books and originals in the UK and in the Top 150 in the USA.