There been a spike in streams for Oasis’ music on Spotify this week as speculation grew over a reunion announcement over the last week.
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The band shared news this morning that they had indeed reunited and that they will embark on a huge stadium tour in 2025, which will see them appear in Manchester, London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin.
Anticipation of the reunion reached fever pitch this weekend when Liam Gallagher used his Reading Festival 2024 headline set on Sunday (August 25) to tease an announcement. The social media accounts of Oasis and brother Noel soon shared the same teaser, telling fans that news would be coming at 8am today (August 27).
The band subsequently launched the OASIS LIVE 25 world tour with 14 stadium dates set to take place between Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin next summer. These will be the band’s only shows in Europe in 2025, but a press release states that “plans are underway for OASIS LIVE 25 to go to other continents outside of Europe later next year.”
Now, Spotify have shared that they’ve seen a “huge spike” in streams as fans revisit the band’s catalogue.
A statement said that streams of the band increased over “160 per cent globally” from 9-11 yesterday (August 26) versus a week ago. The streaming giant went on to add that “the increase in streams was continuing to grow throughout yesterday” and was calculated “in the hours immediately after Liam and Noel teasing today’s announcement on their socials.”
Tickets for the band’s upcoming show go on sale from 9am BST (8am IST) on Saturday August 31 and will be available here for UK shows, and here for the Irish dates.
JULY 2025
4 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
5 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium
11 – Manchester, Heaton Park
12 – Manchester, Heaton Park
19 – Manchester, Heaton Park
20 – Manchester, Heaton Park
25 – London, Wembley Stadium
26 – London, Wembley Stadium
AUGUST 2025
2 – London, Wembley Stadium
3 – London, Wembley Stadium
8 – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
9 – Edinburgh, Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium
16 – Dublin, Croke Park
17 – Dublin, Croke Park
Now, attention is turning to whether or not the band could headline Glastonbury before the tour kicks off in July.
As it stands, the tour schedule leaves Oasis free to headline Glastonbury 2025 – which takes place the week before, from Wednesday June 25 to Sunday June 29. Other acts rumoured to top the bill currently include Eminem, Rihanna, Sam Fender, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.
There is also much speculation about who could support the band on the tour, with Blossoms, Kasabian and Manic Street Preachers being among those considered as possibilities.
The band have not yet revealed who’ll complete the line-up alongside Liam and Noel, but this week saw newspaper reports claim that “no other original Oasis member is expected to join the reunion” and that “the members of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will step in for the concerts”.
News of the highly-anticipated tour – reportedly set to make a colossal £400million – comes ahead of the band releasing a 30th anniversary reissue of their seminal 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ on Friday (August 30).
Liam has recently been playing the record in its entirety on a celebratory solo tour throughout this summer, including his bill-topping sets at Reading & Leeds last weekend.
At the southern edition of the twin site festival, the singer dedicated ‘Half The World Away’ (a classic song sung by his brother) to “Noel fucking Gallagher”. He further stoked rumours of a reunion when he played the same track during his Leeds gig, and told the audience: “It is very interesting innit? It is a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in.”
Meanwhile, Oasis fans have been sharing details of the band’s last show before they broke up 15 years ago – watch it in full check out the set list here.
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