Oasis, the effects of the reunion on sales and streaming
A few days after the debut of “Oasis Live ’25”, just as the tour of the highly anticipated and acclaimed reunion of the Rock’s most raised brothers was renamed, a first balance arrives on the effects of the return of the most iconic band of Britpop on CD and vinyl sales and on the stream of the Oasis music on the platforms. And it is definitely positive.
Spotify revealed that after the first two dates of the tour, those that on 4 and 5 July saw Noel and Liam Gallagher perform at the Cardiff’s mainty stadium, burying their respective war rides in front of 150 thousand overall spectators, The Oasis catalog on the streaming platform grew by 320% worldwide compared to the previous week. Of course, the songs contained in the show scaletta benefited from the effects of the reunion: “Hello” had 1115% superior listening compared to the previous weekwhile those of “Bring It on Down” and “Fade Away” grew by 1000%. Boom also for “acquiesce”, whose ratings grew by 760% compared to the previous week. Those of “Cigarettes & Alcohol” had an increase of 490%, those of “Morning Glory” by 485%and those of “Some Might Say” by 480%.
Sensational are also data relating to CD and vinyl sales. The Official Charts Company, the company that draws up the official sales charts of the United Kingdom, revealed that The vinyl of “(what’s the story) Morning Glory?”, The 1995 classic, is the deceive (Oasis on the eve of the tour debut announced the release, scheduled for next October, of a special vinyl re -edition). In the seventeenth place we find instead “Defintely Maybe”.
But there is more: according to the partial data made known by the Official Charts Company, Oasis are in the running to conquer the top of the weekly ranking of the best-selling records of the week with the “Time Flies … 1994-2009” collectionback in fashion after the reunion. If the trend is confirmed, the disc will return to the first place in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2010. Furthermore, both “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? “What” Defintely Maybe “have good chances of returning to the Top Five, respectively to the third and fourth position.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the debut in Cardiff has been archived, the wait for the five shows that will see Noel and Liam Gallagher will grow to return to perform at Heaton Park, in Natìa Manchester, where the band will play 11, 12, 16, 19 and 20 July.
