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Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny may have had the best 2022 of any touring artist. He did it across the globe, supporting a #1 record, atop a flaming semi truck, with 100 tons of gear, selling 1.8 million tickets for 65 shows, and pulling it off entirely in Spanish.
Here's a look at the 28-year-old Puerto Rican superstar and his record-breaking, glass-ceiling-shattering year.
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Cure fans are accustomed to doom, gloom, and eventual giddiness, which is why the three year hiatus the band was forced to experience segued into the biggest tour the British legends ever embarked on.
Once restrictions were lifted, Robert Smith and his not-so-merry gang blazed a path entitled The Lost World 2022 European Tour. The epic journey accounted for 46 gigs in 19 countries to over a half million fans.
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In 2019, My Chemical Romance tried to get back together by starting The Reunion Tour in LA. Unfortunately the new black plague rained on their black parade.
2022 became the year the boys got the band back together in a grand manner: they released their first new song in 8 years, their tour made it into the Top 20, and despite some annoying concert cancellations the emo heroes found themselves strangely more popular than when they broke up.
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Pantera took the stage for the first time in over 20 years Friday night (December 2nd) at the Heaven and Hell Metal Fest in Mexico City, MX.
Many had thought this reunion would never happen after the band broke up in 2003 followed by the senseless on-stage murder of its iconic guitarist Dimebag Darrell in 2004 during a show with his new band Damageplan. Then in 2018, Darrell's brother, drummer Vinnie Paul unexpectedly died of heart disease in Las Vegas. Fans gave up on ever seeing the Cowboys from Hell live again.
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What do you give a band who has everything? More! (And a few things they haven't received yet.)
Let's go month by month with the Chili Peppers and see what went on during one of their most successful years.
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