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Concert Tickets Sold Comparison - Tours

>11 Million  Coldpay - Music Of The Spheres (2022-25) - 195 shows (inc. 2 festival dates)  - Est. Avg Ticket Price $110+ - Est. Gross $1.2 Billion+   Note: 10% of ticket sales/net profits from this sustainable eco-friendly tour reportedly donated to various charitable causes

>9 Million  Taylor Swift - Eras Tour (2023-24) - 152 scheduled shows - Est. Avg Ticket Price $200+ - Est. Gross $1.8-$2.0 Billion and $300 Million Merchandise Sales   Note:  Three shows in Austria were unfortunately cancelled.

>8.5 Million  MUSE - 9 Album Tours (1999-2023) - 1,200+ shows - Est. Avg Ticket Price $65 - Est. Gross $550 Million (Excludes 200+ festival gigs and non-headlining shows)

France Tour Stats:

475K Tickets Sold  Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres Tour - 7 shows

300K Tickets Sold  MUSE - WOTP Tour - 9 shows

270K Tickets Sold  Taylor Swift - Eras Tour - 6 shows

UK Tour Stats

900K+ Est. Tickets Sold  Taylor Swift - 15 shows

880K+ Est. Tickets Sold  Coldplay - 14 shows

225K Est. Tickets Sold  MUSE - 10 shows including 1 festival headlining gig at Isle of Wight

Spain Tour Stats:

225K  Tickets Sold  Coldplay - 4 stadium gigs in Barcelona

160K  Tickets Sold  MUSE - 5 festival gigs including 1 in Madrid

130K-140K  Est. Tickets Sold  Taylor Swift - 2 shows at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid

Germany Tour Stats

700K  Est. Tickets Sold  Coldplay - 12 stadium shows

450K  Est. Tickets Sold  Taylor Swift - 7 stadium shows

350K  Est. Tickets Sold  MUSE - 8 shows including 6 festivals

Malaysia Tour Stats

81K+ Tickets Sold   Coldplay - 1 stadium show

53K  Tickets Sold  MUSE - 1 stadium show

 

On A Personal Note:

12  MUSE gigs attended (10 arenas and 2 stadiums)

11  Real Madrid C.F matches attended (1 UCL, 1 LaLiga and 9 friendlies)

Edited September 19 by muse samuse

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MUSE will headline the Soundstorm festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in December 2024, the first British rock band to play in that Middle Eastern country.  Metallica became the first American heavy metal band to play at this festival a year ago in front of over 50,000 concert-goers on the main stage.  The festival accommodated 730,000 attendees over three days.

Career MUSE gigs:

118  London

101 Devon*

79 California

50 Paris

*Breakdown by Town (1994-2023):

52 Exeter

19 Plymouth

11 Torquay

6 Teignmouth

3 Tiverton

2 Ashburton

2 Totnes

1 Budleigh Salterton

1  Dawlish

1 Great Torrington

1 Newton Abbot

1 Newton St Cyres

1 Exmouth

Congrats to La Roja and La Albiceleste for their recent victories and trophies won.  Well-deserved Champions of Europe and the Americas respectively!

Edited July 20 by muse samuse

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Updated 20 July 2024

MUSE Career Shows - 1,681 Total at Notable Venues by Market from 1994-2024:    

United Kingdom (430)  [England 385; Scotland 29; Wales 11; and Northern Ireland 5]

36  Cavern Club - Exeter, Devon

14  O2 Arena - North Greenwich, London [Includes 1 BRIT Awards performance]

10  Top of the Pops (BBC) - London

8  The Cooperage - Plymouth, Devon 

7  AO Arena - Manchester

6  Leeds Festival - Leeds

6  Reading Festival - Reading

6  Astoria - London

6  Later...with Jools Holland (BBC) - London

5  Glastonbury Festival - Pilton

5  T in the Park - Kinross, Scotland

5  Bull & Gate - London

4  Wembley Stadium  - London

4  Wembley Arena - London

4  O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire - London

3  Earls Court - London  [Includes BRIT Awards performance in 2004]

2  Emirates Stadium - London

2  Etihad Stadium - Manchester

2  London Stadium - London [Includes 2012 Summer Olympics performance]

2  The Den - Teignmouth, Devon

1  Old Trafford Cricket Ground - Manchester

1  Broadmeadow Sports Centre - Teignmouth  [Battle of the Bands Contest - Played under the name Rocket Baby Dolls on 27 Feb 1994]

United States (385):

9  Staples Center/Crypto.com Arena - Los Angeles  [Includes 1 GRAMMY Awards performance)

6  Madison Square Garden - New York City

6  Oracle Arena - Oakland, CA  [Includes 1 Christmas holiday radio station show]

5  Pechanga Arena - San Diego  [Includes 1 public dress rehearsal performance]

5  United Center - Chicago, IL

5  Well Fargo Center - Philadelphia

5  KeyArena/Climate Pledge Arena - Seattle

5  Toyota Center - Houston

5  The Forum - Inglewood, CA  (Includes three radio station sponsored shows)

4  Coachella Festival - Indio, CA

4  Target Center - Minneapolis, MN

4  Moda Center/Rose Garden Arena - Portland, OR

4  TD Garden -  Boston, MA

France (147):

12  Bercy Arena - Paris  [Includes one 1999 gig supporting RHCP and Foo Fighters]

7  Stade de France - Saint Denis/Paris

5  Festival des Vieilles - Carhaix

4  Halle Tony Garnier - Lyon

4  Festival de Nîmes -  Nîmes

3  La Cigale - Paris

2  Le Zenith - Paris

1  Le Bataclan - Paris

1  La Tour Eiffel - Paris

1  Parc des Princes - Paris

2  Stade Velodrome - Marseille

2  Matmut Atlantique - Bordeaux

1  Parc Olympique Lyonnais (Groupama) - Lyon

1  Stade Charles-Ehrmann - Nice

Germany (113):

7  Rock Am Ring Festival - Nürburg   [Another headlining show is scheduled in 2022]

7 Rock Im Park - Nürnberg  [Another headlining show is scheduled in 2022]

5  Große Freiheit 36 - Hamburg

4  Columbiahalle - Berlin

3  Mercedes-Benz Arena - Berlin

3  Barclaycard Arena - Hamburg

3  Lanxess Arena - Köln

3  Olympiahalle - München

2  RheinEnergieStadion - Köln

Australia (61):

17  Big Day Out Festival - Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Gold Coast and Perth

6  Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne

4  Qudos Arena - Sydney

3  Festival Hall - Melbourne

3  Hordern Pavilion - Sydney

Italy (54):

7  Mediolanum Forum di Assago - Milan  [Including 1 X Factor Italia Finale performance]

4  Stadio San Siro - Milan

3  Stadio Olimpico - Rome

2  Stadio Olimpico di Torino - Turin

2 Arena di Verona - Verona

Canada (50)

8  Bell Centre - Montreal

6  Scotiabank Arena - Toronto

5 Centre Videotron - Quebec City

2 Colisee Pepsi - Quebec City

Japan (48):

4  Fuji Festival - Naeba Ski Resort Yuzawa

3  Zepp - Tokyo

2  Yokohama Arena - Yokohama

2  Super Arena - Saitama

2 Summer Sonic Festival - Osaka

Spain (38):

5  Palacio de Los Deportes - Madrid

3  Benicassim Festival - Valencia

3  Xacobeo Festival - Santiago de Compostela (2) and Vigo (1)

1  Estadio Wanda Metropolitano - Madrid

1  Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys - Barcelona

1  Estadio Vicente Calderon - Madrid

1  Estadio San Mames - Bilbao

Switzerland (34):

4  Paleo Festival - Nyon

3  Hallenstadion - Zurich

2  Stade de Suisse Wankdorf - Bern

Netherlands (32):

5  Ziggo Dome - Amsterdam

5  Pinkpop Festival - Landgraaf

2  Goffertpark - Nijmegen

Belgium (26):

10  Rock Werchter Festival Park - Werchter

4  Palais 12 Laeken - Brussels

3  Sportpaleis Merksem - Antwerp

Mexico (22)

8  Palacio de los Deportes

5  Foro Sol

Denmark (21)

Ireland (21)

Norway (19)

Austria (19)  

Portugal (16) 

Sweden (14)

Finland (13)

Brazil (12)

Russia (11) - Россия    "нет войне"  "да, мир"

Argentina (9)

Hungary (7)  

Poland (6)

New Zealand (6)

South Korea (6)

Latvia (5)

Greece (5)  

Czechia (5)

Chile (4)

Luxembourg (4)

Singapore (4)

Hong Kong SAR China (3)

Türkiye (3)

Ukraine (3)   "слава Українi"

United Arab Emirates (3) - Abu Dhabi and Dubai      حب و سلام

China Mainland (2)    中国大陆

Malaysia (2)

Iceland (2)

Romania (2)

Colombia (2)

South Africa (2)

Croatia (1)

Serbia (1)

Estonia (1)

Lithuania (1)

Monaco (1)

Peru (1)

Indonesia (1)

Saudi Arabia (1)     السلام الاستقلال الاستقرار

Thailand (1)

Taiwan (1)

Israel (0)   הפסקת אש עכשיו

Palestine (0)   حرية لفلسطين

Sources:  setlist.fm and musewiki and muse.mu

 

Edited August 12 by muse samuse

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MOTP enters the Shazam song identification charts below and also the iTunes Alternative Digital Songs sales chart in several markets.

"The Umbrella Academy was adapted from the comic book series of the same name created and written by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. The singer also served as an executive producer on the Netflix series, so it shouldn’t be surprising that music is such a big part of the series...The Umbrella Academy season four series finale which debuted on 8 August 2024 starts with the song Map of the Problematique by MUSE. It’s the song Jean and Gene use to call all the Keepers together for the Cleanse. The group is much larger than the Hargreeves had initially assumed, with masses of people grabbing weapons, ready to fight to return to the timeline they believe they belong in."   -  Screenrant.com

Map of the Problematique

Shazam Peak Chart Positions:

#20 United Kingdom

#29 United States

#30 Ireland

#31 Australia

#32 New Zealand

#41 Canada

#41 Norway

#43 Switzerland

#46 Worldwide

#47 Mexico

#52 Singapore

#54 Finland

#55 Argentina

#56 Chile

#56 Hungary

#58 Sweden

#59 France

#59 Germany

#61 Belgium

#62 Spain

#65 Israel

#69 Brazil

#86 Uruguay

#88 Italy

#90 Peru

#90 Poland

#94 Austria

#95 Greece

#97 Denmark

#98 Czechia

#110 Netherlands

#119 Portugal

#120 Colombia

#123 United Arab Emirates

#134 Croatia

#139 Costa Rica

#157 Philippines

#186 Romania

#200 Ukraine

Edited August 25 by muse samuse

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US Billboard  Hot 100 and Bubbling Under Hot 100 Songs 

Bingham's Dad and Grandads - Number of charted singles ranked by highest chart position reached

7 - Matt Bellamy w/ MUSE (2005-2015)  #37 Uprising, #45 Madness, #77 Neutron Star Collision, #101 Starlight, #111 Dead Inside, #114 Resistance and #118 Hysteria 

6 - Bill Hudson w/ The Hudson Brothers (1972-76)   #21 So You Are A Star, #26 Rendezvous and 4 others

2 - George Bellamy w/ The Tornados (1962-63)  #1 Telstar and #63 Ridin' The Wind

 

Chart-Topping UK Pop Songs on the MUSE Bandmates' Birthdays:

Dom (December 1977)  #1 Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney w /Wings

Matt (June 1978)  #1(+1) You're The One That I Want - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John   #2(-1) Rivers of Babylon - Boney M.

Chris (December 1978)  #1 Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord - Boney M.

Edited August 18 by muse samuse

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Notable Biopics, Musicals, Ballet

Tommy - The Who (Rock Opera Film 1975)

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Film)

A Complete Unknown - Bob Dylan (Released December 2024)

Purple Rain -Prince (Film 1984 and Stage Musical 2025)

LOVE - The Beatles (Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas)

The Who's Tommy -  Pete Townshend/The Who (Rock Opera Stage Musical 1993-2025)

MAMMA MIA! - ABBA  (Screen and Stage Musical)

American Idiot - Green Day (Stage Musical)

MJ The Musical - Michael Jackson 

The Jersey Boys - The Four Seasons (Film and Stage Musical)

American Utopia - David Byrne w/ The Talking Heads (Stage Musical)

Hell's Kitchen - Alicia Keys

The System - MUSE  (Russian Ballet in Moscow 2015) -  Promo Video Linked Below:

Edited August 16 by muse samuse

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The musicians separated by a brick wall and 200 years on Brook Street in Mayfair, London UK.  Details below.

Fun Facts about Matt Bellamy and  Polish opera countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński

Mezzo-Soprano and Soprano Arias by French Composers sung by:

Matt:  "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" (last two lines) : Samson and Delilah - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns  [MUSE Album The Resistance]

Notes: "I Belong To You" including the above excerpts performed three times in France (Casino de Paris and Stade de France in 2010). Before the song he reportedly said 'Eh, we'll need your help to sing the next one for me because, perché, perché no parle... no fucking... parle francais non... eh, I can't speak French so you'll have to sing for me. Excuse my pronunciation.' After the song he said 'Eh! I didn't fuck it up! A little bit.'

Jakub:  "Viens, Hymen" :  Les Indes Galantes - Jean-Philippe Rameau  [Performed at the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony]

Grammy Nominations Received:

8  Matt/MUSE including wins for The Resistance and Drones

2  Jakub - Opera Albums including Agrippina by George Frideric Handel

Baroque Era:

Matt:  "Micro Cuts" (XX Anniversary RemiXX) - Harpsichord intro and verses and high-pitched falsetto vocal range spanning from D4 to A♭5. This track and "Plug In Baby" possibly influenced/inspired by Prelude in C minor (BWV 999) for lute/keyboard/lautenwerck and Toccato and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) by JS Bach respectively.  

Jakub:  Favourite Repertoire including Handel (Messiah)  and Vivaldi ("Vedrò con mio diletto" aria with over 15 million views on YouTube)

Edited out of NBC prime time evening broadcast of the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies shown in the United States:

Matt:  'Survival' performance by MUSE from London 2012 closing ceremony along with "Waterloo Sunset" by Ray Davies and "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush

Jakub:  'Viens, Hymen" as noted above at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony.  Performance was shown live during the afternoon broadcast but neither his name nor the song were identified. Commentators were nonplussed.

Jimi Hendrix - Flat on 23 Brook Street (1968-69)

GF Handel - House on 25 Brook Street (1723-1759)

Matt:  Hendrix is one of his favourite guitarists. He has played riffs from several of his songs including "Voodoo Child" and "Foxey Lady" at multiple MUSE gigs from 2001 to the present.

Jakub:  He took a tour of the Hendrix-Handel House in the video linked below.  He plays the intro to the popular "Sarabande" on the harpsichord.

 

 

Edited August 25 by muse samuse

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Keyboard Instrumental Pieces

Matt's Concerto in C Major - Recorded in 2001 at age 22

Wolfgang's Harpsichord Work in F Major - Composed in 1766 at age 10

 

Edited August 25 by muse samuse

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Grammy-winning German music producer/DJ Zedd has co-written a song '1685' with Matt for his new album Telos which is scheduled for release on 30 August. The collaboration started in late 2017.  The track is credited to Zedd [born Anton Zaslavski in Russia] featuring MUSE.  Other featured artists on the album include John Mayer and Jeff Buckley covering his Grace track Dream Brother. 

Baroque composers Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born in 1685. 

Quote from Zedd's interview with Zane Lowe at Apple Music:

“Matt is a complete legend to me and massive inspiration. I wouldn’t be making the same music if his band wasn’t around.”  

Zedd's recent interview with the Associated Press in August 2024 excerpted below:

AP: "You’ve always wanted to work with Matt Bellamy, and MUSE is featured on the closing track, '1685,' which references Bach’s 'The Well Tempered Clavier'.

ZEDD: They’re amongst the most influential people ever to me. So, for me to get to work with Matt Bellamy was a dream — and the entire band, really. And we have tried multiple times in the past... we both tried twice with two different songs. And they felt awesome, but not perfect and not forever. So luckily, he’s very similar to me, musically, in the regard that we’re not going to force anything.

I had this vision (for '1685'), and I told my manager, 'This one is going to be the instrumental track or with Muse, but with nobody else.' There’s nobody I would consider, because Muse is an artist who works music this way. They oftentimes will take classical pieces and re-interpret them and make it their own. And to me, it was like, 'Well, if I’m going to reinterpret my favorite classical piece of all time, I’m only going to do it with somebody who does that as well — and who inspired me to do that to begin with'."

 

The longest MUSE songs updated:

The Globalist 10:07 · Citizen Erased 7:21 · Unnatural Selection 6:54 · Space Dementia 6:20 · 1685 6:11 - Knights of Cydonia 6:06 - Eternally Missed 6:06

Edited August 30 by muse samuse

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First Week of Release - Peak Chart Positions Reached So Far 

'1685'  Zedd & Muse

Apple iTunes Digital Song Sales (All Genres):

#1 Cyprus

#8 Israel

#37 Mexico

#47 France

#88 Canada

#135 Italy

#144 United Kingdom

#174 Netherlands

#185 Thailand

Album: Telos  Zedd & Featured Artists

Apple Music Streaming (All Genres):

#5 Oman

#5 Kyrgyzstan

#7 Fiji

#8 Myanmar

#10 Cyprus

#12 Singapore

#12 Jordan

#13 Indonesia

#13 Azerbaijan

#16 Sri Lanka

#17 Malaysia

#17 Bolivia

#24 Bulgaria

#25 Japan

#25 Maldives

#26 Hong Kong

#28 Switzerland

#28 Vietnam

#28 Taiwan

#29 Dominican Republic

#29 Guatemala

#30 Norway

#32 Macau

#35 Philippines

#35 Thailand

#37 Argentina

#37 South Korea

#37 Lithuania

#37 El Salvador

#38 Netherlands

#43 Tajikistan

#44 Honduras

#45 Kenya

#46 Mexico

#47 Saudi Arabia

#49 United Arab Emirates

#50 Peru

#51 Germany

#52 Laos

#56 Bahrain

#57 New Zealand

#58 Austria

#58 Panama

#59 Cambodia

#62 Australia

#63 Uruguay

#64 Egypt

#65 Madagascar

#68 China

#68 Chile

#69 Ecuador

#70 Serbia

#70 Moldova

#72 Spain

#73 Canada

#74 Brazil

#76 India

#76 Cayman Islands

#77 United States

#81 Belize

#86 Mauritius

#88 Sweden

#88 Costa Rica

#89 Estonia

#90 Portugal

#91 Colombia

#94 Italy

#98 Croatia

#100 Slovenia

#105 Belgium

#128 Ireland

#128 Poland

#133 Finland

#135 Denmark

#149 United Kingdom

#160 Türkiye

#168 France

Apple iTunes Album Sales (All Genres):

#1 Dominica

#3 Mexico

#4 Türkiye

#6 Japan

#16 United States

#24 Canada

#24 Italy

#29 Australia

#36 Egypt

#37 Germany

#40 Namibia

Edited September 6 by muse samuse

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'1685' - ZEDD (feat. Muse)

First day of release

>160K Spotify global streams 

First ten days of release

> 750K Spotify global streams

> 200K YouTube global views for the official lyric video and the OG UMG video

TELOS 

Album Chart Debuts

#8  US Top Dance/Electronic Albums

#14 UK Official Dance Albums

#18 Japan Digital Albums  

#49 Japan Hot Albums

Sources:  Billboard, Official Charts Company, Oricon

 

Most Rachmaninoff riffs and songs inspired by this Russian composer played by Muse at a gig:

15 August 2002

Arène d'Avenches (Festival Rock Oz), Switzerland

Space Dementia

Prelude in C-Sharp Minor Op. 3, No. 2 (short) + Prelude in G-Minor Op. 23, No. 5 + Butterflies & Hurricanes (solo) + Screenager + Prelude in B-Flat Major Op. 23, No.2

 

Notable artists who have played Prelude in C-Sharp Minor Op. 3:

Elliott Smith (1998) - Clip from the Strange Parallel documentary on the making of his XO album - You can find it on YouTube

Matt Bellamy (2001, 2002, 2007)  Gigs w/ Muse  https://www.musewiki.org/images/PreludeCsharp.mp3

Harpo Marx (1931, 1937) - Former played on the harp at Garden of Allah in his bungalow on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, CA which enraged Rachmaninoff who was living in an adjoining bungalow at the time and the latter played a spoof Wreckmaninoff version on the piano in a sequence in the Day At The Races movie 

Edited September 10 by muse samuse

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SPAIN

Song Certifications in 2024  (Sales + Streaming)

Time Is Running Out - Gold 

Supermassive Black Hole - Gold 

Starlight - Gold

Uprising - Platinum 

Album Certifications in 2015 and 2011  (Sales)

The 2nd Law - Gold 

The Resistance - Gold

Songs:  30,000 Gold, 60,000 Platinum    Albums:  Gold 20,000  Platinum 40,000

Sources: PROMUSICAE, EPDM

Edited September 6 by muse samuse

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The Resistance released 15 years ago this month.  It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide.

Read the backstory and commentary of the band's GRAMMY-winning 5th studio album which was recently posted on the web in the link below.

https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/the-resistance-muse-album-story/

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