2024 Headliners

[Drinky]

30 minutes ago, crumbler said:

Music of the Spheres wasn't their best but it did contain one of their greatest ever songs in Coloratura

The closed the show they did to open the Climate Pledge Arena with it, right at the start of the tour. The setlist for that was several cuts above the stadium set this summer imo:

[GrumpyRaver]

15 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Kendrick, The Cure and Arcade Fire had  zero uk number 1 songs yet they all headlined. So whats the argument there on the "you have to have hits to headline".  

My point entirely.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Imagine you were a journalist as your vocation and you hadn't figured out that that Churnups account was run by just some random.

[MEGABOWL]

4 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

If I want to listen to something adventurous then Coldplay are pretty low down the list.

Everyday Life is surprisingly quirky for them. Pretty good too.

[Crazyfool01]

@chuckles07

 

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[Suprefan]

8 hours ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Please, that last album was so bloody bad, why are they touring it for longer than anything else they’ve ever done 

The money hasnt stopped so they wont stop

 

 

here comes Dua

 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Suprefan

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

The money hasnt stopped so they wont stop

 

 

here comes Dua

 

 

she's gonna be the one surely 

[nikkic]

Has Dua headlined any other UK festivals yet? 

[FloorFiller]

16 minutes ago, nikkic said:

Has Dua headlined any other UK festivals yet? 

Nope. COVID killed any plans she might’ve had off the back of Future Nostalgia and she just did the arena tour in the U.K. last year whilst doing festivals around the rest of the world. 

[fraybentos1]

4 minutes ago, nikkic said:

Has Dua headlined any other UK festivals yet? 

Don't think so. Wasn't big enough off of album one and then album 2 was covid times. Plus she doesn't really fit in anywhere else

[FloorFiller]

24 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

Don't think so. Wasn't big enough off of album one and then album 2 was covid times. Plus she doesn't really fit in anywhere else

Think in a COVIDless time she could’ve ended up co-headlining Reading/Leeds in ‘21 if they had still gone ahead with the two main stage thing.

[WhoOdyssey]

11 hours ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Please, that last album was so bloody bad, why are they touring it for longer than anything else they’ve ever done 

They’ve been teasing Music Of The Spheres Vol. 2 for a while, so I assume that will be out sometime next year.

[nikkic]

1 hour ago, FloorFiller said:

Nope. COVID killed any plans she might’ve had off the back of Future Nostalgia and she just did the arena tour in the U.K. last year whilst doing festivals around the rest of the world. 

 

1 hour ago, fraybentos1 said:

Don't think so. Wasn't big enough off of album one and then album 2 was covid times. Plus she doesn't really fit in anywhere else

Cheers both.

So would be considered a bump up then?

Here for it, not a fan by any stretch, but she certainly deserves it. 

[foolee]

I’d take Coldplay. My partner hasn’t seen them and they’re a massive act. 

[northernangel]

14 hours ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Please, that last album was so bloody bad, why are they touring it for longer than anything else they’ve ever done 

Hasn't stopped Arctic Monkeys doing their biggest selling tour easily off of the back of two crazy poor outputs. 

[Superscally]

1 minute ago, northernangel said:

Hasn't stopped Arctic Monkeys doing their biggest selling tour easily off of the back of two crazy poor outputs. 

They weren't poor though. You just didn't like them.

[northernangel]

3 minutes ago, Superscally said:

They weren't poor though. You just didn't like them.

Come on now, even the sales suggest I'm correct. They reached Gold certification from one accreditor for both and comfortably the lowest selling of any of theirs. 247k and 120k on the most recent. Half the sales of the two previous worst and over 1200k less than AM. Even Sonic Highways beat that. Battle Born beat that. Wonderful Wonderful beat The Car, as did Imagine Dragons' Smoke and Mirrors and that was when you had to make an effort to buy and not just Spotify everything. Arctic Monkeys would have sold their tours now easily had they not made another album after AM without a doubt as there would be a setlist comprising better material for one. The fact they only play one song from TBH&C ever now probably shows that however much of an ego Turner has now isn't high enough not to realize it is shite. I'm actually shocked that every set of the tour bar Glastonbury they played The View From the Afternoon. I guess that shows though was it wasn't overall a great set. As Many described it, it was good when it was good, it was very forgettable for the rest as shown by the people waling away.

[thatTFBguy]

2 hours ago, Superscally said:

They weren't poor though. You just didn't like them.

Tour was pretty lukewarm though. Would be curious if AM could sell the same amount of tickets again. Probably could I suppose. I'd buy a ticket for one, so am part of the problem. 

[Suprefan]

6 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

Don't think so. Wasn't big enough off of album one and then album 2 was covid times. Plus she doesn't really fit in anywhere else

Yeah well tell that to Reading and Leeds who book rappers when they dont really "fit" the festival? Times change. She probably couldve headlined Trnsmt, Reading/Leeds, BST, T In The Park. And probably will eventually?

If 2020 had happened Dua was an Other headliner so lets say album 3 was coming right now for 2024 then its a no brainer to headline her. Now she gets the payoff for waiting it out.

[WhoOdyssey]

8 hours ago, northernangel said:

Come on now, even the sales suggest I'm correct. They reached Gold certification from one accreditor for both and comfortably the lowest selling of any of theirs. 247k and 120k on the most recent. Half the sales of the two previous worst and over 1200k less than AM. Even Sonic Highways beat that. Battle Born beat that. Wonderful Wonderful beat The Car, as did Imagine Dragons' Smoke and Mirrors and that was when you had to make an effort to buy and not just Spotify everything. Arctic Monkeys would have sold their tours now easily had they not made another album after AM without a doubt as there would be a setlist comprising better material for one. The fact they only play one song from TBH&C ever now probably shows that however much of an ego Turner has now isn't high enough not to realize it is shite. I'm actually shocked that every set of the tour bar Glastonbury they played The View From the Afternoon. I guess that shows though was it wasn't overall a great set. As Many described it, it was good when it was good, it was very forgettable for the rest as shown by the people waling away.

You can’t really compare album sales from even 5 years ago to now, and especially those from 10+ years ago. Album sales across the board have completely fallen off a cliff in recent years, The Car did incredibly well to do over 100k.

J Hus, one of the biggest names in UK rap at the moment, has only sold 4k ‘copies’ of his new album as of the midweek charts. But that still means he can get the #1 album by the end of the week if he ends up with around 10k.

I imagine even if The Car was released 10 years ago it still wouldn’t be near to AM’s sales due to its uncommercial sound anyway, but their sales likely would be a lot closer. 

Edited July 18, 2023 by WhoOdyssey

[GrumpyRaver]

7 hours ago, Suprefan said:

She probably couldve headlined Trnsmt, Reading/Leeds, BST, T In The Park. And probably will eventually?

She’ll struggle to headline T

[charlierc]

44 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

You can’t really compare album sales from even 5 years ago to now, and especially those from 10+ years ago. Album sales across the board have completely fallen off a cliff in recent years, The Car did incredibly well to do over 100k.

J Hus, one of the biggest names in UK rap at the moment, has only sold 4k ‘copies’ of his new album as of the midweek charts. But that still means he can get the #1 album by the end of the week if he ends up with around 10k.

I imagine even if The Car was released 10 years ago it still wouldn’t be near to AM’s sales due to its uncommercial sound anyway, but their sales likely would be a lot closer. 

The Car came out in the same week as Taylor Swift's Midnights as well, so chances are it was going to be outperformed anyway. Release it a week earlier and it might be a little higher.

Plus, yeah, as noted, music sales are in the toilet compared to where they were even ten years ago, let alone the late 90s heyday.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

10 hours ago, northernangel said:

Hasn't stopped Arctic Monkeys doing their biggest selling tour easily off of the back of two crazy poor outputs. 

Literally not related to what I said, unless AM continue touring The Car for three summers in a row 

[northernangel]

2 hours ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Literally not related to what I said, unless AM continue touring The Car for three summers in a row 

It's the point that bands will sell tours off the back of poor outputs. People want to see older Coldplay on the tour and that's matched by how many over a period. If Arctics had announced a bigger run, it would have sold based off the previous, not this record.

3 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:

You can’t really compare album sales from even 5 years ago to now, and especially those from 10+ years ago. Album sales across the board have completely fallen off a cliff in recent years, The Car did incredibly well to do over 100k.

J Hus, one of the biggest names in UK rap at the moment, has only sold 4k ‘copies’ of his new album as of the midweek charts. But that still means he can get the #1 album by the end of the week if he ends up with around 10k.

I imagine even if The Car was released 10 years ago it still wouldn’t be near to AM’s sales due to its uncommercial sound anyway, but their sales likely would be a lot closer. 

He might be, but he's not about to sell our Finsbury etc and own outdoor shows. His fans are definitely your YouTube/streaming fans etc. Arctics are are another world bigger.