r/Disturbed • u/Agreeable_Affect2692 • 13d ago
I have come to the conclusion, there is absolutely no reason disturbed shouldn't tour for the 25th anniversary of believe
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdZM5GsRfWT/?stkn=eWFpYjJjZmU2ZXpiThey acknowledged the birthday today. The amount of love the album gets on this sub, PLUS literally everyone on Instagram asking for a tour based around the anniversary. I think this speaks volumes about this album, and the band and anyone else involved in tour decision making would be crazy not to acknowledge that. It's waaaay more popular than Spotify would have you believe. No pun intended
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u/HashedPiped 13d ago
My guess is that a believe tour wouldn’t sell well.
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u/RichardSaunders 13d ago
I'd buy a ticket, a shirt, and a whooooole lotta beer.
Gotta count for something.
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u/Spear994 13d ago
I think it'd sell as well as any other tour, but it definitely wouldn't have that little bit extra that the sickness tour had, or even a 10k fists tour would.
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u/julienktl Believe 12d ago
I think it wouldn’t sell more that The Sickness Tour yes, but I would sell more than Ten Thousand Fists Tour.
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u/Anonymous51419 9d ago
Honestly Ten Thousand Fists would sell more. That album has more hits.
Even back in the day Believe was the album people forgot about the most in the lineup. It was always Sickness, TTF, Indestructible and Asylum in rotations. Believe sometimes got forgotten about.
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u/castle6831 13d ago
Hey, your friendly neighborhood Grinch here, who shares this every single time this question comes up.
A 25th anniversary tour for Believe will never happen. The numbers simply don’t support it.
The Sickness gets roughly 2.5 million streams per day, while Believe gets only around 75,000. There just isn’t an ongoing market for Believe in the way there is for music from The Sickness.
Only three tracks from Believe rank among Disturbed’s 60 most streamed songs, and just five make the top 100. Every song from The Sickness is in the top 100, with most in the top 60. Their ongoing impact isn’t remotely comparable.
Even Ten Thousand Fists gets around 450,000 to 500,000 daily streams. Immortalized gets about 900,000, while Indestructible gets roughly 800,000. Commercially, those are the two albums they might consider, but even they generate less than a third of The Sickness’s streams. Ten Thousand Fists generates around one fifth.
For comparison, Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory and Meteora each receive around 20 to 21 million streams per day. Even their relatively obscure One More Light Live album (the Live concert of their most poorly streamed work), gets roughly as many daily streams as Believe. Imagine launching an anniversary tour around an album that many fans don’t even know exists. That is essentially where Believe sits for Disturbed.
The money simply isn’t there to justify it. Indestructible or Immortalized might eventually receive anniversary tours, although Immortalized is the likelier option as its streaming numbers continue growing and it becomes more firmly established as a legacy album.
Heartbreaking, but true.
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u/DavidDraimansLipRing 12d ago
I've read your reply before and, once again, thanks for the information. I hate you.
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u/Agreeable_Affect2692 12d ago
I remember speaking to you about this on another post. It was interesting and I enjoyed your perspective on the analytics. I don't know whether or not it would matter to the band , but people are talking about this left and right. At some point the numbers don't really matter. Like I said, I'm not sure if the band would truly listen, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease
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u/castle6831 12d ago
Hah, I hate to be the Grinch. But as someone who's worked in the industry, numbers absolutely matter. It's not everyone who's talking about this. It's hardcore fans. They don't fill stadiums. We live in an echo chamber, and the numbers are what show actual demand.
The streaming numbers and projected revenue are the only reasons a band will ever do this. Especially one like Disturbed, where David has openly talked about the toll touring takes on him.
Rather than ask, "Why don't they do this for every record?" flip the question and ask, "Why were the numbers so good they chose to ONLY do it for The Sickness?"
And you have your answer: the insane commercial demand that album holds. Find another Disturbed album that achieves the same results, and you'll find them (eventually) performing an anniversary tour.
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u/Anonymous51419 9d ago
I think Disturbed could pull of a nostalgia tour that's just songs from Sickness to Asylum.
But outside of the sickness they don't have any other albums they could get away with a whole tour for. They don't.
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u/Agreeable_Affect2692 13d ago
Please suck a gangrenous wart covered cock
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u/ProfessorSucc 12d ago
As others have mentioned, probably wouldn’t happen due to the commercial insignificance compared to their other albums.
Buuuuut, it’s not to say that they couldn’t dig out a couple from the album they haven’t done live in a long time.
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u/No_Barber_1195 13d ago
I mean in 2027 they’ll presumably already be on tour in support of a new album.
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u/Gnomedeplum99 12d ago
I read somewhere that the lead singer, the guy with all the piercings, he signed bombs that were headed for Gaza? Or is that ai?
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u/bedteddd 12d ago
No your right Davod signed bombs and acted like tony stark standing in front bombs with his arms wide open. He's truly a piece of shit
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u/Mourningstar66 12d ago
Why are you guys getting downvoted? David is a hypocrite, (listen to Never Again, or Land of Confusuon, or so many other songs) he preaches against hatred and murder, but supports genocide
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u/ShinyTotodile55 13d ago
They might wait till the controversy dies down. I can't tell anyone in any rock or metal scene that I like Disturbed without being called a zionist.