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Songs Of Experience (2017)
  1. I do care.

    If I'm hoping that this emotionally fragile band continues to release new material for some more years, charts need to show them some love.

    Other than that, of course I don't care, I don't even know who the hell are the artists that populates those charts...
  2. Originally posted by Bloodraven:I do care.

    If I'm hoping that this emotionally fragile band continues to release new material for some more years, charts need to show them some love.

    Other than that, of course I don't care, I don't even know who the hell are the artists that populates those charts...
    That's a fair point, but at the same time I don't think they ENTIRELY care about them either. How did NLOTH/Boots chart? As far as I remember, not well at all - yet we got 360 out of it, U2's highest grossing tour (and THE highest grossing tour) of all time - and it was an artistic phenomenon. Granted they barely played anything off of the album on it, but I don't think that was only due to chart performance. Audience reaction was a big reason they dropped those tunes.
  3. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    That's a fair point, but at the same time I don't think they ENTIRELY care about them either. How did NLOTH/Boots chart? As far as I remember, not well at all - yet we got 360 out of it, U2's highest grossing tour (and THE highest grossing tour) of all time - and it was an artistic phenomenon. Granted they barely played anything off of the album on it, but I don't think that was only due to chart performance. Audience reaction was a big reason they dropped those tunes.


    I think there's a big relation between charts and "audience reaction". If people like the songs, they'll chart higher and the audience reaction would be better. So yes, they don't care about the charts per se, but they do care way too much about people liking their songs and the charts is one (maybe the main) way to measure it.

    NLOTH/Boots charts/reception made them drop it from its own tour, scrap SoA (I do believe if the NLOTH reception had been as they expected, it would've been released), and made us wait 5 years or so to get another album.

    And I remember that right before i+e started, Bono kept talking about how their future depended on how people received the new songs, luckily for all of us, Vancouver chanted the owowoohs at the beginning of the first live Miracle of the tour, otherwise probably they would've called it a day

    So, yes it's not the charts, it's that I want people to know and like and want to hear the new songs.
  4. I agree, but their own audience's reaction doesn't necessarily reflect how a song of theirs will perform on the charts, you know what I mean?

    That's why it can be so infuriating and why people tend to say "U2 should make music for themselves/their fans, and not to try and grab new fans". U2 fans tend to (or at least think they tend to) enjoy songs that a mainstream audience wouldn't care about.
  5. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]


    I think there's a big relation between charts and "audience reaction". If people like the songs, they'll chart higher and the audience reaction would be better. So yes, they don't care about the charts per se, but they do care way too much about people liking their songs and the charts is one (maybe the main) way to measure it.

    NLOTH/Boots charts/reception made them drop it from its own tour, scrap SoA (I do believe if the NLOTH reception had been as they expected, it would've been released), and made us wait 5 years or so to get another album.

    And I remember that right before i+e started, Bono kept talking about how their future depended on how people received the new songs, luckily for all of us, Vancouver chanted the owowoohs at the beginning of the first live Miracle of the tour, otherwise probably they would've called it a day

    So, yes it's not the charts, it's that I want people to know and like and want to hear the new songs.
    Boots got as bad a reaction as you could get really, and that wasn't dropped from the 360 tour so it can't be that important to the band how well the songs do in the charts or how well they're received .
  6. I like the song but I'm not buying it...I'll wait for the album. However, if they released it on CD with a couple of b sides I'd be all over it. I just don't see any value in buying single release tracks that will be on a forthcoming album.
  7. Originally posted by mickoafc:I like the song but I'm not buying it...I'll wait for the album. However, if they released it on CD with a couple of b sides I'd be all over it. I just don't see any value in buying single release tracks that will be on a forthcoming album.
    agreed
  9. I don't care about the charts.
    There's so much shit in music these days that sometimes i feel ashamed
    I think nowadays U2 in the charts would sound Like aliens
  10. Considering the song was only eligible for one day's worth of radio play, sales and streaming for this week's charts, it did pretty damn well. Charted in the top 15 in some rock/alternative charts and will easily be in the top 50 in next weeks's billboard hot 100. Which will be their first single to do so since boots I believe
  11. Originally posted by justinpushplay:Considering the song was only eligible for one day's worth of radio play, sales and streaming for this week's charts, it did pretty damn well. Charted in the top 15 in some rock/alternative charts and will easily be in the top 50 in next weeks's billboard hot 100. Which will be their first single to do so since boots I believe
    nicee!!
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