The Magic Whip received positive reviews. Awarding the album a full five stars, The Daily Telegraph called The Magic Whip “a triumphant comeback that retains the band’s core identity while allowing ideas they’d fermented separately over the past decade to infuse their sound with mature and peculiar new flavour combinations”.…
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On 27 November 2015, the first dates to the Head Full of Dreams Tour were announced. Latin American and European stops were listed, which included three dates at Wembley Stadium , London in June. The North America Tour, an extra Wembley concert and an Oceania tour were later added.
” Breath “, the record’s second single, spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart and went platinum on November 24, 2015.
Its lead single, ” The Diary of Jane “, peaked at No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart and was the fastest single added to radio playlists in the history of Hollywood Records, later receiving a double platinum certification on November 24, 2015.
The album’s lead single ” I Will Not Bow ” reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, and went platinum on November 24, 2015.
The other two singles, ” Lights Out ” and ” Give Me a Sign “, peaked at No. 9 and No. 6 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, respectively (the latter of which also receiving a gold certification on November 24, 2015).
the video for ‘Ocean of Night’, released on 24 November.
On November 20, 2015, the live DVD/album Things We Do at Night (Live from Texas) was released.
On November 20, 2015, Creed released a compilation album, entitled With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective . It was a boxed set with three discs: one with hits, the second with rarities, and the third with acoustic versions of hits. In the United States, the album was available exclusively at…
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Following Bono’s recuperation, U2 embarked on the Innocence + Experience Tour in May 2015, visiting arenas in North America and Europe from May to December. The group structured their concerts around a loose autobiographical narrative of “innocence” passing into “experience”, with a fixed set of songs for the first half…
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