Was Oasis the biggest band in the world?

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  1. WildHoneyPie9

    WildHoneyPie9 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Was Oasis the "biggest band in the world" during the Mid 90s? Noel Gallagher often says this in interviews. Someone here pointed out that the band was a support act for U2 outside of the UK, so the claim cannot be true. Oasis also never really made it in the US.

    So was Oasis only massive in the UK at the time, or were they a worldwide phenomena who deserved the title 'biggest band in the world' ?
     
  2. 24voltsdc

    24voltsdc Forum Resident

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    They were never I repeat never the biggest band in the world. In their heads only.
     
  3. dartira

    dartira rise and shine like a far out superstar

    Maybe for three weeks in 1995.
     
  4. Standoffish

    Standoffish Smarter than a turkey

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    Nope.
     
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  5. Arkay_East

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    Never were. Never. Not for a minute did they dethrone U2, for starters (as someone already mentioned) ... not even considering bands like Radiohead ... the Stones have been bigger since the 60s.

    They weren't even the biggest band in the U.K.!
     
  6. No. They were the biggest band in the Gallaghers heads.
     
  7. dudley07726

    dudley07726 Forum Resident

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    In their own heads, Never. The Beatles sold more in 94/95 and 2000 than Oasis.
     
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  8. BluesOvertookMe

    BluesOvertookMe Forum Resident

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    No, the U.K. is not the world.
     
  9. JoeF.

    JoeF. Forum Resident

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    More like three hours.....
     
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  10. Jerjo

    Jerjo Forum Resident

    No, no, and no.
     
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  11. DLeet

    DLeet Forum Resident

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    Blur single outsold theirs, he-he. But even without this fact - nnnope.
     
  12. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member

    Yeah, for a couple of years they were huge here. Be Here Now took the edge off that and they never really recovered.
     
  13. DaleClark

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    No. I would say during that time U2 probably was. As far as touring, I believe Pink Floyd was one of the highest grossing tours in 94. I could be wrong
     
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  14. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    Who?

    Were'nt they a Beatles copy band??
     
  15. aoxomoxoa

    aoxomoxoa I'm an ear sitting in the sky

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    Duke Ellington's band had a lot more people in it
     
  16. JoeF.

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    They were never that big in the US and--at the risk of sounding off-putting to some--you can't be the biggest band in the world without being at least one of the biggest bands in the US.
    That said, I liked them in the beginning and they could have been huge if they spent more time and effort on their albums and hadn't been major a**holes. There's nothing wrong with being an a**hole in the music business but when your antics overshadow the music itself before you have earned a major following and lots of goodwill, you have problems.
     
  17. Klassik

    Klassik Guerilla BeatLOLogist

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    Oasis' hype was incredibly successful. Even more than their records.
    The biggest band in the world turned out to be The Beatles and there was some synergy between the two bands involved in this mid-90's spike.
    As I recall, Oasis started to become a 'who actually are they?' item to the general populus (NME single of week buyers notwithstanding as they were already in) on a poster of Liam and Noel holding the Red and Blue albums which had just come out on CD. I think it was an ad for Select magazine at a time when all of the music monthlies were selling hugely and were flyposting heavily everywhere.
    That established a link between the two bands and I'm reasonably certain every Oasis fan bought into Beatles Anthology as a result.
    In some ways, a temporary Beatles energy was added to their own success but as McCartney has said since, he felt they blew it when they started claiming they were 'bigger than the beatles' (at which point they were also denounced by George Harrison) and after that their journey to becoming 'a defunct manchester band like all the other legends was assured.

    I loved their trouncing of Blur though and at that point briefly bought in when they put out a poster answering Blur's 'Oasis Quo' swipe with 'Rockin All Over The World'

    Hmmm...don't remember buying their records though.
    I was more of a Kula Shaker man.

    :p
     
  18. The Bishop

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    I don't know about he world, and I don't care about that. But they were the biggest band in the U.K. for quite a while.

    Always a favourite with me.
     
  19. Changingman

    Changingman Forum Resident

    They were the biggest band in the UK between 1994 and 1997.
     
  20. Thievius

    Thievius Blue Oyster Cult-ist

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    Not that there's an actual barometer for measuring such things, but every fiber of my being screams "No."
    Even if you use record sales as an indicator, I think you'll find they fall short of the mark.
     
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  21. e.s.

    e.s. Forum Resident

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    Multiple top 10 albums in the US isn't making it?

    First album sold over 15 million outside the UK. Second album sold 22 million outside the UK.
     
  22. richierichie

    richierichie My glass is always full.

    Biggest band in the world? Yer `avin` a laugh. :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:They weren`t the biggest band in their own bog (toilet for you Colonials). :laughup::edthumbs::laughup:
     
  23. JoeF.

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    Yes, Oasis sold enough in the US to make the Top Ten more than once. But that still doesn't make them one of the biggest bands in the world. And the '90's were weird. Spin Doctors, Blues Traveller, Hootie and the Blowfish--all sold in the millions.
    And along with Oasis, their CD's all ended up in the mark-down bins with a hole punched in the corner....
     
  24. The Bishop

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    Of those bands, if Oasis announced a U.K. stadium tour tomorrow, the tickets would sell out in minutes.

    Yes, they are still a big deal.
     
  25. pez

    pez Forum Resident

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    Cocaine may have helped to create this delusional idea. They werent even as big as Blur!

    Nirvana.
     
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