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In 2009, Blur reunited with Coxon back in the band and embarked on a European reunion tour. In the following years, they released several singles and compilations and toured internationally. In 2012, they received a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Their eighth album, The Magic Whip (2015), was the sixth consecutive Blur studio album to top the British chart. The group have largely been on hiatus ever since the end of The Magic Whip tour.

Blur have been on hiatus once again since the 2015 tour promoting The Magic Whip. In 2018, Albarn said that a Blur reunion is "Never not a possibility", and confessed "I'd hate to think I'd never play with those musicians again."

The band briefly reunited in March 2019 for a surprise performance at an Albarn-organized Africa Express event in London.