Blue Monday (date) Blue Monday (date) Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first publicised as part of a 2005 press release from holiday company Sky Travel, which claimed to have calculated the date using an equation. It takes into account weather conditions and thus only applies to the Northern Hemisphere. The idea is considered pseudoscience, with its formula derided by scientists as nonsensical. This date was published in a press release under the name of Cliff Arnall, at
Blue Monday (New Order song) The song appeared in "Spin Magazine's" "Hits of the Year" for 1999. "Blue Monday" is also said to have helped pave the way for the cyberpunk trend, as best exemplified in the popularity of the movie "The Matrix", which appeared soon afterwards. In an interview of Joel Gallen in "Los Angeles Magazine", the music supervisors were discussing the use of Orgy's "Blue Monday" for a football scene in "Not Another Teen Movie", among others. Stating that the song "had energy", they eventually selected it for the movie, and it appeared in the soundtrack as well. "Blue Monday" charted internationally, some