I was able to chose top tier 02 seats for the offspring tour.
I'm looking at it purely for what it is, you've got bands that are not headlining major festivals doing arenas shows. An arena show isn't a pure definition of a bands top status. I've just got a ticket to sum 41 and if I went to see say Offspring, I'm not going because their latest outputs are their best, I'm going because they still play 75% of old classics from their best time. There is absolutely no denying with BMTH that Sempiternal took them further but TTS made them huge. Download also dropped the bollock by not having them earlier as verified by everyone on here and had they have done that debate wouldn't be there. Download is also potentially the only festival apart from maybe R&L though I don't think so now who will give them the absolute top spot so they had a chance to take their time while still booking the oldies.
Fair whole back, as soon as a market appeared really.
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The Offspring did a bigger tour in 2021 in terms of venues and they haven't opened the top tier of either the o2 or AO either. Obviously still a big tour. Fall Out Boy have also been doing arena dates ever since they reformed in 2013. They have done 4 arena tours - getting bigger every time - and headlined both R+L and Download. Bring Me have also done bigger and bigger arena tours since TTTS in 2016.
I think you are looking at a bands peak in quite a binary way there is a commercial peak in terms of their biggest album in terms of streams/sales and then there is their peak as a live artist and in general popularity.
For example Metallica's commercial peak was in the early 90's, but their peak in terms of popularity, ticket sales and the number of people listening to them is now. Same is true for Maiden, AC/DC, GNR, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, MCR and loads of other big bands. You also have to remember that some of these acts actually declined before growing again after their commercial success.
The reason for that is that they are all multi-generational artists (and nostalgia acts) now who were first big 20 years ago and the kids and younger family members of those are now listening to those bands. I'd also say that Bring Me are a little different to the others as they are always ahead of the curve musically - Sempiternal was ahead of the curve, TTTS was ahead of the curve, PH:SH was ahead of the curve and the singles that made PH:NG were ahead of the curve.
Where to stay if difficult to say as totally depends on your budget, plenty of hotels just outside the forum , but expensive, eixample is a nice area not far from the tram line that runs all night if the festival
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