The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 184

Yeah seriously, if you just think bud US billboard chart success you’ll cut your legs off of some of the most successful bands internationally… e.g. gang of youths, the tragically hip, etc

 

I just think they're extremely polarizing to the general masses, and this Taylor Swift debacle was probably the most "high-profile" situation any member of this band has been involved in. Their popularity is essentially unchanged, but the people who don't like them were just louder about it for a couple weeks.

More of a general complaint, but bands need to stop teasing/announcing things so god damn far in advance. Between the teasing of tours and the releasing 4 singles 3 months before your album comes out it's genuinely so annoying.

 

It’s a winning strategy. Unless you drive the market in some sense (Beyoncé, etc), it’s the most effective strategy that’s beneficial for the label and the band. Sometimes these decisions are driven by more than just the band. It may be annoying but it works

 

Monthly listens on Spotify seem to be the best metric for how popular a band is currently, at least for me. Seems fairly accurate when ranking the bands I listen to.

 

But I don’t have Spotify.

 

That’s not really how engagement works on social media, particularly Twitter. That’s 12 likes for every 1k views, which is decent.

The band are huge. Not Coldplay huge though, if that’s what you were thinking..

 

They’re big but they haven’t like, fully broke in America the way say Dua Lipa has or Coldplay did all those years ago. That doesn’t mean they aren’t popular though, and as mentioned above they sell more tickets than a lot of artists talked about on here. I think they’re similar in popularity to Charli XCX in the states, or maybe a smidge more popular.

 

They’re one of the biggest bands going. The problem is there aren’t very many mainstream bands anymore.

 

According to the About section on Spotify the band is currently the 409th biggest artist worldwide - I’d say they’re pretty big.

 

You're right but it bothers me specifically so they should all stop anyway

 

Some big boy venues on this upcoming tour

 

deets? Source?

 

Give me anything but MGM fenway please

 

Metlife or bust

 

Think hockey/nba arenas. Philly is going to be about 10k more than the last show here

 

They’re playing Wells Fargo huh? I saw Radiohead there back in 2018. Pretty sick opportunity for The 1975

 

I’m hearing they’re playing the Candlelight Theater, opening for Richard Brecky’s “Jellybean.”

 

Dang I didn’t really want LCA. Oh well it’ll be good

 

Hmm, wonder if they’ll do United Center or Allstate then.

 

I presume Lollapalooza is considered the Chicago date of the tour.

 

I don’t consider this the case, actually. There are festival and other flyover dates around it. This tour seems likely to be fall/winter.

They just won’t be able to announce it until after, of course.

 

Red rocks plz

 

Most fests have some kind of radius clause, and black out dates so I would assume that a) yes or b) the non-fest chicago date would have to be pretty out from lolla.