The "Muse" is fading...

[Guest Heero yuy]

I remember The Muse..and how they used to be so popular...

What happened to them?

[Semjaza]

I'm not sure if you mean Muse the British rock band or something else.

If you mean Muse, Absolution came out two years ago and all the singles were released. Once a group stops putting out "new" material to the radio, they're going to begin to fade a bit. Muse hasn't sent anything new out to the radio in awhile... which makes sense, since the US release of Absolution was about a year after the original release. So , obviously, that will affect their overall popularity because most people are understandably fickle with music. It's likely that when a new album or single is released they'll be up there again... but who can really say.

The nice thing about that album coming out here and doing well is that Origin of Symmetry finally came out here. For a long time, the only release of theirs that was easy to find in the US was Showbiz. Everything else was a $30 import. They're certainly more popular in their downtime now than they were back after Showbiz... because I don't remember any one that talked about them here at all back in 1999 or so lol.

[Guest Heero yuy]

[QUOTE=Generic NPC #3]I'm not sure if you mean Muse the British rock band or something else.

If you mean Muse, Absolution came out two years ago and all the singles were released. Once a group stops putting out "new" material to the radio, they're going to begin to fade a bit. Muse hasn't sent anything new out to the radio in awhile... which makes sense, since the US release of Absolution was about a year after the original release. So , obviously, that will affect their overall popularity because most people are understandably fickle with music. It's likely that when a new album or single is released they'll be up there again... but who can really say.

The nice thing about that album coming out here and doing well is that Origin of Symmetry finally came out here. For a long time, the only release of theirs that was easy to find in the US was Showbiz. Everything else was a $30 import. They're certainly more popular in their downtime now than they were back after Showbiz... because I don't remember any one that talked about them here at all back in 1999 or so lol.[/QUOTE]
Technically, not true. Brand New hasn't released anything new since 2003. And they haven't been on tour at all, yet, their fanbase is growing bigger and bigger. The haven't released any singles on the radio...either.

They were supposed to release a new cd last year, but nothing...

[Semjaza]

It technically is true because I'm talking about general situations. It's not like we have stats to compare either of their albums and how large the fanbases really are. Muse's fanbase is likely growing all the time because every day new people will find out about them. I'm simply stating why you perhaps aren't noticing it and why it would seem that in every day life it has slowed down. It has. Brand New would likely be gaining far more interest right now if they had some brand new release as well, but they don't. That doesn't mean they're making much more headway than Muse all around the world.

Brand New also has had singles and they're a comparitively newer band. They've also had music videos from both albums on MTV. They also have the benefit of being able to tour in the past with some immensely popular pop punk and emo groups, which in turn helps sales and interest... that's one of the biggest trends in music right now.

I'm speaking of world wide interest and why it might have been affected. Muse doesn't seem any more or less popular around me, but I can't just include the general attitude for the band that I assume people have in Chicago... I have to gauge the interest I see every where. What I said before is what I feel is attributed to that.