Blue Monday Crash 2009 Blue Monday Crash 2009 On Monday, 19 January 2009, a date previously known as Blue Monday, British banking shares collapsed in a rout of selling after Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the biggest corporate losses in British history. The shares fell over 67% in a single day. Shares in all other British banks suffered heavy losses. The next day Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays fell sharply again. RBS and HSBC continued to fall. News reports on RBS indicated a £28 billion loss for 2008, and the UK government pledged to increase its stake in the company to 70% .
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