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Headliners 2016


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Just now, Icewulf said:

Better, no, that's purely down to opinion. But Muse being bigger you almost certainly could justify, due to the sheer volume of album sales and the size of their tours and international appeal. You have to be delusional to think Radiohead are bigger in that respect. How big you are has nothing to do with how long in the tooth you are or, alas, music quality.

According to Wikipedia Radiohead have sold 30 million records, Muse 20 million.  Radiohead have been going slightly longer and have sold slightly more records.  Ergo, they're about the same size.  It's not daft or laughable to suggest one is bigger than the other, just pointless.

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6 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

According to Wikipedia Radiohead have sold 30 million records, Muse 20 million.  Radiohead have been going slightly longer and have sold slightly more records.  Ergo, they're about the same size.  It's not daft or laughable to suggest one is bigger than the other, just pointless.

Surely it's not pointless, any headliner has to be 'big enough' to attract enough people to reasonably fill the Pyramid stage, so size is as ever important. 

Not sure either act would guarantee a huge crowd, Muse because they put on an amazing show but their newer music is awful, Radiohead because they're absolute quality, however is there a danger they won't play a crowd-pleasing set, being more self-indulgent.

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Just now, Avalon_Fields said:

Surely it's not pointless, any headliner has to be 'big enough' to attract enough people to reasonably fill the Pyramid stage, so size is as ever important. 

It's pointless debating which is bigger, not that either is big enough.

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11 minutes ago, Honeybane said:

Radiohead are bigger. I shouldn't even need to back this up really. Creep was absolutely massive.. Apart from supermassive black hole I couldn't even name a Snuse song.

I think bringing up a 23-year-old song that the band have disowned in a discussion about which band is bigger today says it all.

And Creep wasn't absolutely massive. It made no. 7 and got a lot of radio / MTV play, but even in 1994, Radiohead were still only mid-afternoon on the NME stage.

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