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Over the last twenty or so years there's probably only been three different 'Biggest Bands In The World' - REM, U2 and The Rolling Stones (maybe Metallica I guess), and that accolade would have been passed amongst them year on year depending on which one was currently in the middle of a massive two year long world tour that shifted eye-watering amounts of tickets, merchandise and records that they were able to reproduce every time they had a new album out (obviously REM dropped out of that category over their last few years).

The term 'Biggest Band In The World' is banded about without much consideration. Nirvana were never the biggest band in the world, Oasis were never the biggest band in the world, Muse have never been the biggest band in the world and Mumford certainly aren't the biggest band in the world. No matter how impressive their album or ticket sales are they still aren't anywhere near the likes of U2 or The Rolling Stones regarding their popularity and profile across every nation on the planet and even though they may not be particulalry active if they decided to head out on one of their monsterous world tours it would blow whatever Mumford could do out of the water.

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Over the last twenty or so years there's probably only been three different 'Biggest Bands In The World' - REM, U2 and The Rolling Stones (maybe Metallica I guess), and that accolade would have been passed amongst them year on year depending on which one was currently in the middle of a massive two year long world tour that shifted eye-watering amounts of tickets, merchandise and records that they were able to reproduce every time they had a new album out (obviously REM dropped out of that category over their last few years).

The term 'Biggest Band In The World' is banded about without much consideration. Nirvana were never the biggest band in the world, Oasis were never the biggest band in the world, Muse have never been the biggest band in the world and Mumford certainly aren't the biggest band in the world. No matter how impressive their album or ticket sales are they still aren't anywhere near the likes of U2 or The Rolling Stones regarding their popularity and profile across every nation on the planet and even though they may not be particulalry active if they decided to head out on one of their monsterous world tours it would blow whatever Mumford could do out of the water.

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It is an interesting one alright.

In the 1990's it was certainly more linked towards album sales than touring. At one stage I thought it was column inches/magazine covers that meant you had achieved that title. You know, the ol' Springsteen on the front of Time and Newsweek at the same moment thang.

Think I'd put the Chili's in the same bracket as REM on your above list. Also it is difficult to ignore Nirvana and Oasis. For a short period of time (1992? / 1996?) they were indeed "bigger" than everybody else.

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It is an interesting one alright.

In the 1990's it was certainly more linked towards album sales than touring. At one stage I thought it was column inches/magazine covers that meant you had achieved that title. You know, the ol' Springsteen on the front of Time and Newsweek at the same moment thang.

Think I'd put the Chili's in the same bracket as REM on your above list. Also it is difficult to ignore Nirvana and Oasis. For a short period of time (1992? / 1996?) they were indeed "bigger" than everybody else.

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