RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR (2025/2026)

I will be happy to be proven wrong as I would also love to see a song from No Prayer get included, but I really think people are overthinking this one. They have to include Fear of the Dark. It’s not like they’re going to explicitly say which albums they’re skipping over.
 
Mosh said:
I will be happy to be proven wrong as I would also love to see a song from No Prayer get included, but I really think people are overthinking this one. They have to include Fear of the Dark. It’s not like they’re going to explicitly say which albums they’re skipping over.
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English is not my native language - they said that they will play songs from first nine albums, in which way it could be overthinked? I mean - Rod could mean that since fear is 9th album then technicaly this sentence is correct but I doubt that, PR releases like that are quite well planned usually.
 
Meliegree said:
English is not my native language - they said that they will play songs from first nine albums, in which way it could be overthinked? I mean - Rod could mean that since fear is 9th album then technicaly this sentence is correct but I doubt that, PR releases like that are quite well planned usually.
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I get what you mean - the phrase used is "spanning the first nine studio albums" which to me means that is the range of material they're drawing from, but not necessarily covering every single album. Sometimes they'll use the phrase "career spanning" when describing setlists as well, but obviously that doesn't imply they are going to play from every single album.
 
I’m catching up on this thread and are people seriously speculating there will be a tour for the albums not represented on this tour? ‘From The X Factor to Senjutsu’ doesn’t scream good marketing sense (and I like those albums and those in between lots!) Come on, you lot. Be sensible with your predictions. Not delusional.
 
Sorry, but I find it much more unreasonable to believe that 50 successful years are celebrated by explicitly mentioning only the first 17 years and that nothing more will happen.
What is that marketing strategy supposed to be? Asking the fans to ignore all the more recent Maiden albums, including the ones to come, because they are only defined by the first 9 albums?
 
THESEVENTHMARINER said:
I meant more in the sense of:

"Let's make a tour based on our most popular and iconic albums, because it's a guaranteed money spinner".
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But that's exactly the point why it's strange. A tour could have been named and conceptualized that promises the “most iconic and popular songs” and the most spectacular show of all time without explicitly naming only the first 9 albums.

That would have sold just as well.
 
Poto said:
It felt a bit odd when I heard of the theme for the tour, but looking at the sales and everything they got it absolutely right.
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End of discussion here imo. We can armchair question the marketing but clearly they know what they're doing when it comes to selling out stadiums.

Which is why I find the No Prayer talk kinda goofy. I really doubt the (assumed) promise of playing Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter is what's getting people to flock to these gigs.
 
Nostalgia sells. Looks at Glastonbury this year. The two most popular acts were Shania Twain and Avril Lavinge. I’m not surprised this tour is crushing it sales wise.
 
But, I mean, what iconic and popular songs (to those that aren't already converted, so, not us) aren't from the first 9 albums? Wicker Man and Writing on the Wall?
 
Exactly. That's why it's not even necessary to label it so explicitly, which is usually recommended, because then every fan can also interpret another song into it that they would like to hear.
 
Mosh said:
End of discussion here imo. We can armchair question the marketing but clearly they know what they're doing when it comes to selling out stadiums.

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Come on, how difficult is it to successfully sell the anniversary of a band like Iron Maiden at a time when many people think there might not be many more chances to see them.
 
Melony said:
Exactly. That's why it's not even necessary to label it so explicitly, which is usually recommended, because then every fan can also interpret another song into it that they would like to hear.
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I mean, I get why they did it. They know what their most popular albums are and this is the most ambitious tour venue capacity-wise I think they've ever done. Minds as well hammer home the point that the setlist will focus on the most popular stuff and you'll probably be entertained for each and every song to pack 'em on in. Recognizing what your most popular works are isn't burying the rest of your discography.
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
I’m catching up on this thread and are people seriously speculating there will be a tour for the albums not represented on this tour? ‘From The X Factor to Senjutsu’ doesn’t scream good marketing sense (and I like those albums and those in between lots!) Come on, you lot. Be sensible with your predictions. Not delusional.
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The only way I can see that 2nd half of the career tour working is if they recorded a new album in the interim and made it an X Factor - New Album hybrid tour--sort of like what they did with Future Past--to bring out people who want to hear the new material live. Even that, though, wouldn't sell as well as RFYL will...unless they bill it as the last tour. That's possible, since RFYL and a potential 2027-2028 tour would be a career-spanning sendoff.

Still, that logic isn't altogether sound. You know their final shows will have the "hits" included, so...we'll see? Too early to say.
 
This reminds me of 2014 when a bunch of 90s merch dropped on the store and people took that to mean they were going to do a 90s history tour that year. Instead we got Maiden England year 3. It's never going to happen, and even more knowing that pretty much every year of Maiden touring is very liable to be the last. I still think a new album and a small accompanying tour is at least a small possibility, but that would probably be marketed like their usual new album tours with a couple 90s/00s songs thrown in but still including the staple hits. They would never advertise their least known/least successful albums as a selling point for a Maiden tour.

Even that first leg of The Final Frontier tour was extremely ambiguous in the marketing even though it turned out to be very reunion heavy.
 
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