Thanks again. fascinating stuff. Yes i meant to mention that Humility was backed by Beats and also - I think - Casio. I had been on holiday in LA and walked along Venice Beach just 3 weeks before the video came out. I must have just missed Jamie and co. Frustrating :-) For me, its a bland song, but ...

Thanks so much @idreamofpikas, i love seeing these numbers. Is the overall success of The Now Now attributable in part to the live shows driving views and streams? I can understand Saturn Barz being so big. I don't think its a terrific song but the video was obviously expensive and very fun and also...

I would love to know how the numbers stacked up for them in terms of viewers and revenue, must have cost a lot to stage. According to a spokesperson, over one million viewers in more than 120 countries tuned in across the three different livestreams, which featuring a pioneering mix of animation an...

Have just caught up with it. Spectacular stuff. Pink Phantom into Opium was special. Didn't see Dracula or Sweetie Irie coming. Great to hear the remix acknowledged at last, as it was played everywhere and was the foundation for success. I would love to know how the numbers stacked up for them in te...

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That was great thanks. I wouls like to think he will Zoom Graham at some point soon!

No danger John

Ah why do you say "no danger". Are they not on a Zoom Chat level of friendship. Surely they are - Graham turning up onstage at Demon Dayz etc.

Just to say I've got my ticket for the Sunday show. Not sure I will actually get time to watch it but I like to support the chaps, it sounds like they're trying something interesting here.

Has anyone got a ticket for Song Machine Live? The timings aren't totally convenient for me, so not sure if I will bother. I asusme it will appear somewhere else pretty soon after. Gorillaz have "form" for that.

I assume the album status of it is pretty unclear. You can't talk up an episodic songs season in January but expect to be on ene dof year album lists.

I would expect Aries, Momentray Bliss and/or Pink Phantom to make end of year song lists.

Not sure if the general public have access to stats per year but it's pretty easy to see overall ranking Feel Good Inc - 440M Clint Eastwood - 390M DARE - 185M Melancholy Hill - 167M Dirty Harry - 111M Style - 108M Saturn Barz - 105M 19-2000 - 92M Humility - 87M Tomorrow Comes Today - 76M https://w...

My god, I'm in love with the bonus tracks. Perhaps Simplicity is the only track I don't care that much about, but even that has its moments. The production and instrumentation on this album is amazing. And all the guest appearances are spot on. Damon's done it. Simplicity is now my favourite of the...

Ps I just read on Wikipedia that Graham wrote Coffee&TV. Is this true? Had not realised. Assumed it was mainly an Albarn composition like most Blur songs but just sung by GC. They were struggling to make the Damon demo work so Graham changed the rhythm and tempo to match a Sonic Youth song. I think...

Went in at #7 on the global album chart with first week sales of 73,000. So about 25% sold in the UK. 248,000 for B Springsteen. www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm Pretty disappointing compared to the Humanz (260k),the Now Now (129k) and Magic Whip (124k). Damon's Every Day Robots even got 65k in its f...

For all the justified praise of the Gorillaz collabs, I think Damon's failure to write a hit for anyone else is an asterisk (I wouldn't go as far as to say "blot") on his songwriter credentials. He is on the rcord as having been in sessions with Lily Allen and Adele and didn't come up with anything...

Coldplay are clearly very sharp operators but they have world class management and business brains in the background. I'm not sure Damon has always benefitted from the same calibre of advice. Coldplay took the U2 route, they relentlessly toured, especially the US, to take advantage of their success...

This is really interesting thank you. I didn't know there was a way to analyse YouTube accounts. Gorillaz (and Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead - obvious contemporaries) all have a B+ rating, Coldplay are A-. I would have thought it would be more like Gorillaz A- and Coldplay A or A+. Who is popular en...