EXCLUSIVE Oasis fever leaves charts resembling a greatest hits album with four tunes in Apple top 10 (and a VERY apt song title for the most popular) By Mark Duell Published: 05:51 EDT, 30 August 2024 | Updated: 06:22 EDT, 30 August 2024 e-mail 2 View comments The Oasis reunion has prompted a mammoth revival in their music's popularity with the band's songs now making up a quarter of the UK's 100 most-played. Live Forever is currently Apple Music's fifth most-streamed song, 30 years after it was first released three weeks before the debut album Definitely Maybe. Don't Look Back In Anger is seventh, Wonderwall is eighth and Supersonic is ninth; while Champagne Supernova comes in at 12th and Half the World Away in 19th.
Also popular are Slide Away in 24th, Some Might Say in 25th, Cigarettes & Alcohol in 28th, Morning Glory in 31st, Stop Crying Your Heart Out in 33rd and Roll With It in 37th - meaning Oasis have 12 songs in the Top 40. They also have 23 in the Top 100. But Oasis have not been quite as popular as Sabrina Carpenter, whose songs Taste, Please Please Please and Espresso made up the top three as her sixth album Short n' Sweet was released today.
Backbone by Chase & Status and Stormzy was in fourth. Meanwhile HMV revealed sales across the full Oasis catalogue rose by 526 per cent this week compared to last – including (What's the Story) Morning Glory? up 684 per cent, Definitely Maybe up by 443 per cent and Knebworth 1996 up 209 per cent. DARLINGTON: The HMV in Darlington has a range of the band's merchandise on sale today in addition to the 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe which has now been released CARLISLE: The 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe is on sale at HMV in Carlisle today NEWCASTLE: Oasis merchandise from books to T-shirts at an HMV store in Newcastle today SHEFFIELD: The re-release of Definitely Maybe is on the shelves at the HMV in Sheffield today Oasis songs make up five of the most-sApple Music Top 12 in the UK The 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe was released this morning, with HMV revealing pre-orders were double compared to the levels seen last week.
Oasis Live 25 tour dates JULY 2025 4th - Cardiff, Principality Stadium 5th - Cardiff, Principality Stadium 11th - Manchester, Heaton Park 12th - Manchester, Heaton Park 16th - Manchester, Heaton Park 19th - Manchester, Heaton Park 20th - Manchester, Heaton Park 25th - London, Wembley Stadium 26th - London, Wembley Stadium 30th - London, Wembley Stadium AUGUST 2025 2nd - London, Wembley Stadium 3rd - London, Wembley Stadium 8th - Edinburgh, Murrayfield 9th - Edinburgh, Murrayfield 12th - Edinburgh, Murrayfield 16th - Dublin, Croke Park 17th - Dublin, Croke Park Advertisement The re-release was announced in May, well before the latest reunion rumours began, and it is available from the band's official website as a quadruple vinyl LP for £60, £16 for a double CD, £14 for a digital download and £12 on cassette. In addition to a 2014 re-master of the original LP, it includes new artwork and various unheard out-takes - and was given five stars in a review by Daily Mail music critic Adrian Thrills today . He described it as a 'timely renewal of a classic', while Sabrina Carpenter's new album Short n' Sweet was given four stars and labelled 'clever n' catchy'.
HMV also has a 'Strawberries & Cream' two LP version of the album for £38. It comes as Spotify reported a 690 per cent increase in the band's streams globally, along with a 'significant increase' in UK streams and nine Oasis songs in its Top 40. And Oasis albums make up four of the current top seven bestsellers on Amazon's vinyl store - with three versions of Definitely Maybe in first, fourth and seventh.
In second place is (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, while Be Here Now is further down in 12th, and The Masterplan in 23rd. HMV managing director Phil Halliday told MailOnline today: 'Oasis are a truly iconic band who have made such a positive impact on British music. 'Sales figures from the past week, both in-store and online, pay testament to their popularity across the nation.
'It's great to see so many people revisiting their vinyl catalogue, from classic releases like Definitely Maybe all the way through the Knebworth LP. I'm sure I won't be the only one trying to get my hands on tickets on Saturday.' The re-release of Definitely Maybe is now available from the band's official website as a quadruple vinyl LP for £60, £16 for a double CD, £14 for a digital download and £12 on cassette A new photograph of Liam and Noel Gallagher as they confirmed that Oasis have reformed Liam Gallagher teased an official reunion during his set at Reading Festival on Sunday night Oasis have added extra dates to their tour and will now play five shows at Wembley next year Noel and Liam Gallagher on the 'Che Tempo Che FA' TV Programme in Italy in November 2008 It comes as Oasis ticket prices were announced yesterday, after three more dates were added in Manchester, London and Edinburgh for the Britpop band's reunion tour.
Read More Oasis: Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Edition) review: A masterpiece gets a supersonic reboot A seat to watch the band at London's Wembley Stadium begins at £74.25, with the most expensive ticket a £506.25 pre-show party, exhibition and seated package.
The cheapest seats are Cardiff's Principality Stadium shows, which will set you back £73, and Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium at £74, according to Manchester-based promoter SJM Concerts, which runs the website Gigs And Tours. Before the announcement for UK shows, Irish promoters MCD said on its website that the price of both of the two Croke Park gigs in Dublin will start at 86.50 euros (£72.
75) without booking fees. In the band's home city of Manchester, tickets start from £148.50, with only standing available alongside a number of hospitality and luxury packages.
1997: Oasis fans at the cash registers to buy Be Here Now at the HMV in London's Oxford Street 1997: Oasis fans hold a cardboard model of Liam Gallagher outside the HMV on Oxford Street 1997: Fans of Oasis hold the band's album Be Here Now at the HMV on Oxford Street 1997: Oasis fans buy the band's third album Be Here Now on CD at an HMV store Standing tickets at Wembley will cost fans £151.25, with the same tickets in Cardiff and Edinburgh slightly cheaper at £150 and £151 respectively. Read More EXCLUSIVE Revealed: The true cost of going to an Oasis reunion gig including the (obligatory) bucket hat Gig passes have not yet gone on sale, but the Manchester rockers invited fans to apply for a pre-sale ballot, which has now closed, before tomorrow's general release.
It has not been announced who will be performing with Liam and Noel as part of Oasis. Fans have been urging the brothers to regroup since they disbanded, a split prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris on August 28, 2009. Though fans have been positive about a reunion, concerns have been raised about high ticket prices and accommodation, and the prospect of Liam and Noel having another falling out.
The latest official UK Top 40 singles chart will be played on BBC Radio 1 from 4pm to 5.45pm today, with the full Top 100 then published online. Oasis: Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Edition) review: Oasis masterpiece gets a supersonic reboot, writes ADRIAN THRILLS Oasis: Definitely Maybe (Big Brother 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rating: This week was always going to be a significant one for Oasis fans, with yesterday marking the 30th anniversary of the band's 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe.
But what had been shaping up as a big week became a truly momentous one on Tuesday morning with the confirmation that Liam and Noel Gallagher were reuniting for a money-spinning series of stadium shows next summer. With tickets on sale tomorrow morning, the tour is huge news. The Manchester group — an era-defining force in the Britpop boom of the 1990s — split after a backstage row between the Gallaghers in 2009, and the pair have since spent an inordinate amount of time publicly slating one another while pursuing successful solo careers.
But the prospect of frontman Liam and chief songwriter Noel returning to the stage together is setting pulses racing — and sending hotel prices soaring. Oasis, back in their prime, played with a style and panache that elevated them above their peers — and today's deluxe reissue of Definitely Maybe is a timely reminder of that singalong swagger: 30 years on, it remains their masterpiece. The new package was announced three months ago, long before reunion rumours started to swirl, and it's out as a double CD (£16), quadruple vinyl LP (£60), cassette (£12), and digitally.
In addition to a 2014 re-master of the original LP, it includes new artwork and a slew of previously unheard out-takes. It's an album that doesn't try to hide its influences. The tune of Shakermaker is lifted from The New Seekers' 1971 hit I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony), and the psychedelic Up In The Sky is indebted to The Beatles' 1966 LP Revolver.
The guitar intro to Cigarettes & Alcohol recalls T. Rex's Get It On, and there are echoes of Slade and the Sex Pistols. But the magic lies in how Oasis used those influences.
With Liam's vocal snarl adding an aggressive optimism to his brother's nostalgic melodies, Definitely Maybe is a viscerally exciting record. It's arguable that 1995's (What's The Story) Morning Glory? had marginally better songs in Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova, but Definitely Maybe is the definitive Oasis release. The newly unearthed out-takes provide insights into how these youthful anthems came into being.
Oasis began the album at Monnow Valley studio in Wales, but shelved those recordings and finished the job at Sawmills studio in Cornwall. Out-takes from both sessions feature here. The group binned the Welsh tapes because they felt they were too polished and didn't capture the energy of their live gigs, but that explanation doesn't really hold water.
There's nothing glossy about the raw, road-hardened versions of Rock 'n' Roll Star, longer than on the final LP, and Shakermaker. They are simply works in progress. The Sawmills sessions feel closer to the finished article, though there are departures, too.
There's a sprawling, seven-minute version of Columbia and an unreleased demo of Sad Song, a bonus track on the original 1994 vinyl LP. This alternative take, from 1992, features Liam rather than Noel on vocals. Hits such as Supersonic and Live Forever are sure to feature heavily when Oasis hit the road next year, maybe even igniting a fresh appetite for new, younger guitar groups.
Definitely Maybe brought plenty of good cheer when it first lit the fuse for Britpop. Three decades on, it's a perfect primer for the band's return. Share or comment on this article: Oasis fever leaves charts resembling a greatest hits album with four tunes in Apple top 10 (and a VERY apt song title for the most popular) e-mail Add comment.
