Chart history stats for Muse

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It is likely that over 90% of the $49 million earned by Muse this past year according to Forbes' estimates was generated by live touring performances and concert merchandise sales and less than 10% by recorded music (mechanical, performance and synch royalties from albums, downloads, radio airplay, and streaming) and publishing.

http://www.forbes.com/profile/muse/?list=celebrities

Attendance (Estimated) at Muse Concerts in Europe during the Drones era (2015-16):

1,216,000 Festivals (38 headlining shows x 32,000 avg including an est 75,000 at Glastonbury gig and an est 50,000 at Eiffel Tower/Champ de Mars UEFA gig)
728,000 Arenas (52 shows x 14,000 avg)
13,500 Clubs (9 shows x 1,500 avg)

1,957,500 Total Attendance in Europe (plus 580,000 in Asia and the Americas from 38 arena shows, 3 festivals and 3 club dates)

Other superstar artists' box office 2016 touring attendance by comparison (Europe only):

1,400,000 Bruce Springsteen (25 stadium dates x 50,000 avg + 3 festival gigs x 50,000 avg)

1,286,000 Coldplay (20 stadium dates x 59,300 avg + 1 Glastonbury festival gig x 100,000 est)

867,000 Beyoncé (17 stadium dates x 51,000 avg)

860,500 Adele (49 arena dates x 14,500 avg + 1 Glastonbury festival gig x 135,000 est)

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Muse have played to over 11 million people worldwide at shows during the past five album cycles since 2003 and grossed close to $400 million in concert ticket sales and festival headliner artist booking fees:

2.5 million Drones Tour - 143 shows
2.2 million The 2nd Law Tour - 125 shows
3.1 million The Resistance Tour - 161 shows including 16 supporting U2 on their 360° tour in the USA and South America
1.9 million Black Holes and Revelations Tour - 195 shows
1.4 million Absolution Tour - 196 shows

Muse have also now sold 20 million albums worldwide and over 12 million digital track downloads.

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27 August & 3 September 2016 Dutch Album Charts (Impact of Lowlands Festival Gig):

#49(+43) Drones 62 Weeks; #89(-40) 63 Weeks

12 August 2016 France Album Chart (SNEP):

#80 Drones - (#47 Physical Album Sales; #151 Download Album Sales) - 61 Weeks

Rare February 2000 UK Live TV Interview with Muse and 4/5 of 'N Sync sans JT promoting new singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ud2kTY96Y

In March 2000 'Sunburn' debuted at #22 and 'Bye Bye Bye' debuted at #3 on the British Official Singles Chart.

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I cannot vouch for its accuracy but somebody appears to have experienced a 150% increase in his net worth over the past five years:

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ric...amy-net-worth/

Chart Trivia: Frontmen of three British rock bands influenced by Jeff Buckley had their albums appear concurrently for the first time on the France album chart dated 23/06/2001:

#2 (Debut) Origin of Symmetry - Muse
#6 Amnesiac - Radiohead
#22 Live À L'Olympia - Jeff Buckley
#43 Parachutes - Coldplay
#117 Showbiz (Re-entry) - Muse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqJFpfwFqBk

Fifteen years later, new albums from these three bands also appear concurrently on the France album chart dated 23/09/2016:

#52 A Head Full of Dreams - Coldplay
#86 A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
#167 Grace - Jeff Buckley
#184 Drones - Muse

Notable Career Album Stats in France:

Muse have a current streak of nine consecutive Top 10 albums including four #1's, two #2's and one #3.

Muse have spent 923 (and counting) cumulative weeks on the French Top Albums Chart with their ten studio and live albums from September 1999 to September 2016. By comparison, Coldplay have a total of 754 cumulative weeks and Radiohead have 266 weeks as of September 2016. Muse and Coldplay have each sold over 3.7 million albums in France while Radiohead have sold over 2.2 million.

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Muse have topped 1 billion views on YouTube during the past two years...

Total Views: 1,016,944,865 (1 September 2014 - 1 September 2016)

Muse Fanbase Overview - Top 100 Countries Ranked by Total YouTube Views

1 Mexico 114,981,034
2 United States 97,516,826
3 France 70,570,829
4 United Kingdom 54,821,220
5 Italy 47,185,613
6 Brazil 41,196,895
7 Indonesia 39,534,150
8 Spain 31,541,508
9 Argentina 23,928,197
10 Russia 23,462,201

11 Poland
12 Colombia
13 Germany
14 Canada
15 Turkey
16 South Korea
17 Netherlands
18 Portugal
19 Chile
20 Greece
21 Malaysia
22 Japan
23 Peru
24 Thailand
25 Australia
26 Belgium
27 Ukraine
28 Switzerland
29 Czech Republic
30 Romania
31 Hungary
32 Taiwan
33 Austria
34 Israel
35 Finland
36 India
37 Philippines
38 Venezuela
39 Ecuador
40 Vietnam
41 Georgia
42 Denmark
43 Sweden
44 Singapore
45 Ireland
46 Slovakia
47 Norway
48 Serbia
49 Bulgaria
50 Kazakhstan
51 Croatia
52 Saudi Arabia
53 Lithuania
54 New Zealand
55 Hong Kong
56 Latvia
57 Morocco
58 Egypt
59 Belarus
60 Costa Rica
61 Algeria
62 Slovenia
63 South Africa
64 United Arab Emirates
65 Bolivia
66 Guatemala
67 Iraq
68 Uruguay
69 Tunisia
70 Macedonia (FYROM)
71 El Salvador
72 Iceland
73 Estonia
74 Armenia
75 Cyprus
76 Azerbaijan
77 Dominican Republic
78 Moldova
79 Malta
80 Bosnia and Herzegovina
81 Bangladesh
82 Reunion (FR)
83 Paraguay
84 Panama
85 Honduras
86 Puerto Rico (US)
87 Albania
88 Pakistan
89 Luxembourg
90 Cambodia
91 Nicaragua
92 Kuwait
93 Jordan
94 Kyrgyzstan
95 Qatar
96 Lebanon
97 Trinidad and Tobago
98 Mauritius
99 Mongolia
100 Nepal

Source: https://www.youtube.com/yt/artists/i...rtistname=Muse

[Finn.]

Deifinitely they should vote for Pedro.

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Muse and Coldplay have remarkably shared the bill on at least 14 occasions at various club dates and festival gigs over the course of their careers:

13 September 1998 - Manchester, UK http://timeline.coldplay.com/manchester-in-the-city/

June 1999 - Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK

29 May 2000 - Portsmouth, UK http://timeline.coldplay.com/supporting-muse/
30 May 2000 - Liverpool, UK
31 May 2000 - Newcastle, UK
02 June 2000 - Glasgow, UK
03 June 2000 - Sheffield, UK
04 June 2000 - Wolverhampton, UK
06 June 2000 - London, UK
07 June 2000 - London, UK

June 2000 - Glastonbury Festival

02 July 2005 - Live 8 in London, UK & Versailles, France

05 August 2011 - Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago, IL USA

June 2016 - Glastonbury Festival

Coldplay and Muse Combined Est. Net Worth: $400 million in 2016; $500 million in 2017

Note: Coldplay reportedly donate 10% of their earnings to charity while Muse donate to various charities including MSF, War Child, and THF.

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Box Office Stat:

Muse, Phantogram
Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, NV USA
9 January 2016
$459,897 Gross Ticket Sales
9,112 / 11,755 Attendance / Capacity
$69.95, $39.95 Ticket Prices
AEG Live - Promoter

How much do artists earn from 1 billion audio streams on Spotify and 1 billion views on YouTube?

Muse royalty income estimates (65% Matt; 35% Dom & Chris) based on 1 million streams:

$500,000 Spotify
$200,000 YouTube

http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...treaming-money

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Muse have just won the "Best Act in the World Today" Award at the Q Awards.

Good for them.

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Originally Posted by forevermusic

Muse have just won the "Best Act in the World Today" Award at the Q Awards.

Good for them.

Muse beat Coldplay, U2, Biffy Clyro and The 1975 to win the Best Act in the World Today award. Accepting the award, frontman Matt Bellamy reportedly told the crowd: “Thank you; we are the best act in the world today. We don’t deserve it; let’s be honest. Shout out to U2 – we owe so much to them. We toured with them in 2009 and learned so much from them.”

Drummer Dominic Howard added: “I agree with Matt. It’s a ridiculous title but we’ll take it. As with all these things, we’re accepting that on behalf of our fans. Thank you.”

This is the sixth Q award Muse have won surpassed only by 17 NME awards the band have received.

Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/music/q-awar...slt2O9pIEv4.99

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Given some of the stuff from 10+ years ago that Mr. Bellamy was on about, I wonder if Alex Jones is now tearing his hair out at photos of Matt meeting the woman he considers the literal devil.

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SIGN OF THE TIMES

'Fear and panic in the air...'

'Paranoia is in bloom...'

'...And how can we win when fools can be kings...'

An American Tragedy: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...y-donald-trump

Final Popular Vote (Est.) 2016 US Presidential General Election Results:

65,845,000 for Hillary Clinton (48.05%)
62,980,000 for Donald Trump (45.95%)

http://www.nme.com/news/music/muses-...-evans-1822566

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/n...=0&elect=0&f=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...le=true#gid=19

Common Methods of Demagogues:

Scapegoating
Fear-mongering
Lying
Personal insults and ridicule
Accusing opponents of weakness and disloyalty
Violence and physical intimidation
Gross oversimplification
Attacking the news media

Characteristics of a Sociopath: http://www.naturalnews.com/036112_so...influence.html

Sociopaths are charming. Sociopaths have high charisma and tend to attract a following just because people want to be around them. They have a glow about them that attracts people who typically seek guidance or direction. They often appear to be sexy or have a strong sexual attraction. Not all sexy people are sociopaths, obviously, but watch out for over-the-top sexual appetites and weird fetishes.

Sociopaths are more spontaneous and intense than other people. They tend to do bizarre, sometimes erratic things that most regular people wouldn't do. They are unbound by normal social contracts. Their behavior often seems irrational or extremely risky.

Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought. They pursue any action that serves their own self interest even if it seriously harms others. This is why you will find many very successful sociopaths in high levels of government, in any nation.

Sociopaths invent outrageous lies about their experiences. They wildly exaggerate things to the point of absurdity, but when they describe it to you in a storytelling format, for some reason it sounds believable at the time.

Sociopaths seek to dominate others and win at all costs. They hate to lose any argument or fight and will viciously defend their web of lies, even to the point of logical absurdity.

Sociopaths tend to be highly intelligent, but they use their brainpower to deceive others rather than empower them.

Sociopaths are incapable of love and are entirely self-serving. They may feign love or compassion in order to get what they want, but they don't actually FEEL love in the way that you or I do.

Sociopaths speak poetically. They are master wordsmiths, able to deliver a running stream of consciousness monologue that is both intriguing and hypnotic.

Sociopaths never apologize. They are never wrong. They never feel guilt. They can never apologize. Even if shown proof that they were wrong, they will refuse to apologize and instead go on the attack.

Sociopaths are delusional and literally believe that what they say becomes truth merely because they say it!

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'Reapers' hovering at #31 on the latest UK vinyl singles tally dated 11 November 2016 in its 18th week on the chart:

http://www.officialcharts.com/charts...singles-chart/

Meanwhile, Drones has spent the longest number of charted weeks on the album charts in Belgium (86 in Wallonia and 77 weeks in Flanders) followed by France with 68, the Netherlands with 64 weeks, Switzerland with 51, Spain with 50, Italy with 45, Portugal with 38, and the UK with 35.

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Muse, X Ambassadors
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Jan. 16, 2016
$890,261 Gross
17,852 Attendance
$58.82, $31.14 Ticket Prices
Live Nation Promoter

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Chart Trivia: 'Apocalypse Please' was released as a digital download single on 23 August 2004, from which approximately 70% of all proceeds were donated to Oxfam. The song reached #10 on the 1st edition of the UK Official Download Chart announced on 1 September 2004 by the Official Charts Company.

1 Flying Without Wings - Westlife
2 Blazin' Day - Blazin' Squad
3 She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
4 Lola's Theme - Shapeshifters
5 American Idiot - Green Day
6 This Love - Maroon 5
7 Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
8 Bedshaped - Keane
9 Laura - Scissor Sisters
10 Apocalypse Please - Muse

What songs would describe the state of the world today?

Muse: Take a Bow #apocalypseplease #TheGlobalist

https://twitter.com/MattBellamy
http://www.nme.com/news/music/muse-m...ection-1860434

R.E.M. #itstheendoftheworld "...team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped..."

President Barack Obama on election aftermath: http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama...he-apocalypse/

"David Remnick writes in The New Yorker that Obama literally consoled staffers the morning after the election by saying, 'This is not the apocalypse.' The president himself told Remnick, 'I don’t believe in apocalyptic—until the apocalypse comes. I think nothing is the end of the world until the end of the world.' ”

Peter Beinart in The Atlantic: "The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President. The founders envisioned electors as people who could prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office."

"It is 'desirable,' Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Papers No. 68 published on 12 March 1788, 'that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of' president. But is 'equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station.' These 'men'—the electors––would be 'most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.' And because of their discernment—because they possessed wisdom that the people as a whole might not—'the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.' "

"As Michael Signer explains, the framers were particularly afraid of the people choosing a demagogue. The electors, Hamilton believed, would prevent someone with 'talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity' from becoming president. And they would combat 'the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.' They would prevent America’s adversaries from meddling in its elections. The founders created the Electoral College, in other words, in part to prevent the election of someone like Donald Trump."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...sident/508310/