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Post by noelio883 on Sept 24, 2024 6:03:41 GMT -5
U2 has half the listeners on Spotify. Are Linkin Park bigger than U2? 5 billion people don't use Spotify. Fuck them.
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Post by standonit on Sept 24, 2024 6:12:50 GMT -5
It was time to add "wood to the fire" Why? What are they meant to be going after here? I get that fans want more information etc, I'd like to see/read an interview where a bit more comes out about the last few months, but people are talking like it's the job of Oasis to now stay in the headlines as much as possible. Like the window for announcing US gigs is closing fast and by not doing it when they were the main news headline is a disaster making the whole reunion pointless. It happened through the solo careers as well, they were releasing material too far in advance of albums, or not enough, or EPs when albums would have been bigger and more successful. People are never happy unless the whole campaign is following their armchair plan for world domination. Maybe a band doing happily what it wants is better than chasing every headline and promotional opportunity (and maybe an operation which has just sold about as many tickets as any UK tour in history and had a number 1 album is quite comfortable with how things are going and aren't panicking that they're about to be forgotten just yet).
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Post by His Royal Noelness on Sept 24, 2024 6:17:44 GMT -5
2025 is going to be massive for the lads.
Just assuming there isn’t a new album. There’s still a lot of work to go on next year. Noel doesn’t even own most of the gear he last used with oasis. He’s going to be trying guitars and amps and pedals and getting himself back into position of being a guitarist and not a front man. That will take a bit of practice.
There’ll be rehearsals. Next year and then there’s the massive tour.
Liam has just wrapped up his solo career. They’ll both want a bit of time off.
IF there is a new album than that makes 2025 even busier.
Give them the bit of time off if they want.
There’s also the possibility that they’ve genuinely mended their relationship and they’ve got shit to catch up on and family time. Liam and Noel barely know their nephews. Peggy isn’t getting any younger.
The tour is sold out, they’re human beings. Give em a break.
PS. Linkin Park are shit.
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Post by matt on Sept 24, 2024 6:45:30 GMT -5
Only a few weeks since the reunion. Did not expect this thread to be renamed "REUNION CONFIRMED: Or how I came to hate Linkin Park".
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Post by blaskiboo on Sept 24, 2024 6:49:28 GMT -5
I'd rather a horde of ravenous gerbils gnaw my cock and balls off than ever hear a Linkin Park song ever again. Ever. I'm on my lunch break and just almost choked on my yoghurt reading this. I don't think I'll be trying to explain to my colleageus why though.
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Post by surrealneil on Sept 24, 2024 6:55:25 GMT -5
Forget Linkin Park, can we get back to the conversation about Johnny Marr's wig if we're not discussing Oasis
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Post by surrealneil on Sept 24, 2024 6:56:54 GMT -5
Linkin Park not just a US phenomenon though. In fact, they were arguably playing to far larger audiences in the waning years of their career in the rest of the works than in America. 32,000 in Peru and Chile, 35,000 in Sweden, 40,000 in Italy, 41,000 in Poland, 81,000 in Germany 90,000 in Portugal, 100,000 in Austria, nearly 300,000 across a handful of dates in China, etc. Even Oasis wasn’t putting up those kind of numbers outside the UK. The larger point being, yeah Linkin Park a pretty big deal worldwide and I think their reunion probably has overshadowed Oasis’ outside the UK. Which means the brothers have got some work to do in terms of promo, hype, touring this whole thing outside of their home turf. Dates inside the UK were always going to sell out with no effort required. But internationally, they’ve never been on the same scale and I’d imagine we’re going to start seeing more press, probably out of necessity. They’re far from the only big reunion - much less the only big touring act - next year. Anyone stateside who’d seen them back in the day or Noel more recently knows how big a gamble they’re taking that if these supposed leaked US gigs are real. Linkin Park are more shite than Blur. Well yeah because Blur are phenomenal
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Post by surrealneil on Sept 24, 2024 7:04:57 GMT -5
Being bigger in the US defo pushes the amount of Spotify listeners as obviously the US has lots of inhabitants. And generally we should be careful to not overrate monthly Spotify listeners to much, think of someone like SZA who has lots, but she's still not well known in the UK and her headline set at Glastonbury fell completely flat. And there are also completely unknown artists who have one viral internet hit which pushes their monthly listeners to a few million yet no one knows them and they couldn't sell out small venues. True I have a track with half a million streams in the last month or two due it ending up on someone's instagram reel and people going to listen to it. I'm not in any way well known...YET;) But seriously, streaming numbers are all over the place. Of course you can get a good indication of popularity, but not in any kind of defined order. I had another song with pretty decent numbers simply because it was added to some fairly popular Spotify playlist in another country, so it's not like those people went out of their way to listen to it purposely, yet without context it would look like a good amount of people chose to search and listen.
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Post by Supersonic on Sept 24, 2024 7:06:43 GMT -5
To get the topic back onto Oasis, I wonder if the stage set going to be similar to 2008-2009?
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Post by headshrank on Sept 24, 2024 7:23:56 GMT -5
To get the topic back onto Oasis, I wonder if the stage set going to be similar to 2008-2009? i could see it being similar to what liam had for def maybe tour, potentially with wtsmg themed props if they decide to go down that route
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Post by Sadie on Sept 24, 2024 7:27:19 GMT -5
There’s also the possibility that they’ve genuinely mended their relationship and they’ve got shit to catch up on and family time The mere notion that we've reached a point where this is even a possibility, never mind extremely likely, is fucking mind-blowing
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Post by popeyebonaparte on Sept 24, 2024 8:02:12 GMT -5
I'd rather a horde of ravenous gerbils gnaw my cock and balls off than ever hear a Linkin Park song ever again. Ever. Wise words, good sir.
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Post by His Royal Noelness on Sept 24, 2024 8:26:51 GMT -5
To get the topic back onto Oasis, I wonder if the stage set going to be similar to 2008-2009? Stage set? Like a few wires and the amplifiers?
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