RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR (2025/2026)

damage_case said:
Yes, but I think if Maiden had to choose between the two songs (to give Jannick one of his songs), they would choose BQOBD, as it is a big stadium tour and in the end they want to appeal to the masses with the more well-known song.
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If we look at the numbers, wasting love is more well-known. on spotify it's 9th most listened Maiden song. the song has 107 million listens, be quick has 40 million. on youtube the video of Wasting Love has 64 million views, be quick's video has 12 million views. but I agree with you, these numbers mostly from the mainstream listeners who just love rock ballads. Be quick will make more people happy.
 
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If we look at the numbers, wasting love is more well-known. on spotify it's 9th most listened Maiden song. the song has 107 million listens, be quick has 40 million. on youtube the video of Wasting Love has 64 million views, be quick's video has 12 million views. but I agree with you, these numbers mostly from the mainstream listeners who just love rock ballads. Be quick will make more people happy.
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Wasting love 107 milions listens and 64 milions views ??? Wtf.
 
both of them (youtube and spotify) can't be wrong. and the song's live versions have similar good ratings.
wasting love's live version on "a real live/dead one" has 1.768.000 listens. fear has the most listenings on that album with 3,5 million listens (btw i think that helsinki performance is the best version of fear of the dark). afraid to shoot strangers has a little more than WL with 1,8 million listenings. and trooper has 1,2 million. so wasting love -on that live album- has more listenings than trooper has.
live at donnington's general numbers are much lower. (that was surprising to see)
but still wasting love is the most listened third song there again after fear and afraid.
people love love-songs! love sells.
 
Bruce can do this, no big problem, little oxygen from backstage tank before this track. There is more than enough room for breathing pause/s.
 
Funny enough, we got an extremely interesting hint right today that they probably WILL indeed play To Tame A Land. <3<3<3:wub::wub::wub:
There is a Tshirt update in the merch department, done today. I'm checking the store daily. It's the first new shirt in AGES yet, pretty unusual they don't update the store over a very long period of time anyway.

No one ever will seriously believe that these days (!) ANYTHING that happens would just happen out of the blue or due to whatever coincidence.

So, the TShirt is the Alien thing (an older Riggs design I think).
Check out the store. Eddie cruising another planet's surface with his vehicle.

The entire TTAL plot is based on the story of planet Dune. No other song comes to my mind that would make sense bringing a reference to some alien & outer space thing. And as it's not an "official TTAL design" yet (probably Mumford), they have put this one out as a FC item only, so they leave some space to come up with "the official" TTAL design later after the tour kicked off.

So wow, NOW I'm almost a 100% sure we will get TTAL (and yes, I myself have been one of the big doubters yet). However, they don't just come up with something like that out of context, and especially not just with a one (!) Tshirt store update. Not at this of time, just a moment ahead to the tour. And Bruno himself said the setlist is fixed yet, only a few days ago when interviewed in California. This is SO MUCH MORE than just a store update, this is a statement, mark my words.
 
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Dick Brucinson said:
Funny enough, we got an extremely interesting hint right today that they probably WILL indeed play To Tame A Land. <3<3<3:wub::wub::wub:
There is a Tshirt update in the merch department, done today. I'm checking the store daily. It's the first new shirt in AGES yet, pretty unusual they don't update the store over a very long period of time anyway.

No one ever will seriously believe that these days (!) ANYTHING that happens would just happen out of the blue or due to whatever coincidence.

So, the TShirt is the Alien thing (an older Derek Riggs design from the 1980s).
Check out the store. Eddie cruising another planet's surface with his vehicle.

The entire TTAL plot is based on the story of planet Dune. No other song comes to my mind that would make sense bringing a reference to some alien & outer space thing. And as it's not an official TTAL design (probably Mumford), they put this one out as a FC item only, so they leave some space to come up with "the official" TTAL design later after the tour kicked off.

So wow, NOW I'm almost a 100% sure we will get TTAL (and yes, I myself have been one of the big doubters before). They don't just come up with something like that, and especially not just with one Tshirt in a store update. Not at this of time, just a moment ahead to the tour. And BRuce said the setlist is fixed yet only a few days ago in California. This is SO MUCH MORE than just a store update, this is a statement, mark my words.
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It's a remastered glow in the dark Sonisphere The Final Frontier event t-shirt.

"Awesome by day, radiant by night, this unique FC Exclusive is more than a remaster of the Final Frontier World Tour event t-shirt from Maiden’s historic appearance at Sonisphere Festival on the mythical festival grounds of Knebworth back in 2010."

Sorry to deliver bad news.
 
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matic22 said:
It's a remastered glow in the dark Sonisphere The Final Frontier event t-shirt.

"Awesome by day, radiant by night, this unique FC Exclusive is more than a remaster of the Final Frontier World Tour event t-shirt from Maiden’s historic appearance at Sonisphere Festival on the mythical festival grounds of Knebworth back in 2010."

Sorry to deliver bad news.
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This is the official story around the shirt. It makes no sense to release a shirt like this at this point.
 
Dick Brucinson said:
This is the official story around the shirt. It makes no sense to release a shirt like this at this point.
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It also doesn't make sense to release AMLOAD T-shirts while playing exactly 0 songs from the album. And yet, they did.

Also, for the big surprises, they always hide the merch. That's why the Alexander/Hell On Earth shirt wasn't availible during the first show in 2023, despite basically everyone knowing that Alex is most likely happening. And that's why the merch stand is always inside the arena during the 1st show.

I think major setlist surprises will be pretty well hidden. Especially now without Nicko blabbering some things up. The only reasonable hints so far are Phantom (teaser), RTTH (name) and Rime (Bruce using references to the song in interviews).
 
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Yeah in 2023 everyone was talking about how the Benjamin Breeg shirt was a setlist hint when it was really just a shirt.
 
matic22 said:
It also doesn't make sense to release AMLOAD T-shirts while playing exactly 0 songs from the album. And yet, they did.

Also, for the big surprises, they always hide the merch. That's why the Alexander/Hell On Earth shirt wasn't availible during the first show in 2023, despite basically everyone knowing that Alex is most likely happening. And that's why the merch stand is always inside the arena during the 1st show.

I think major setlist surprises will be pretty well hidden. Especially now without Nicko blabbering some things up. The only reasonable hints so far are Phantom (teaser), RTTH (name) and Rime (Bruce using references to the song in interviews).
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They will play TTAL. Otherwise there will be trouble.
And this is such a nice theory of mine. So.
 
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