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  1. Originally posted by iTim:[..]


    1. I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle
    2. The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
    3. This Is It - Michael Jackson
    4. Fearless - Taylor Swift
    5. The Fame - Lady Gaga



    this says a lot
  2. Originally posted by iTim:[..]


    1. I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle
    2. The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
    3. This Is It - Michael Jackson
    4. Fearless - Taylor Swift
    5. The Fame - Lady Gaga



    Well, than maybe they should be glad they arent relevant anymore.
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  4. Originally posted by iTim:[..]


    1. I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle
    2. The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
    3. This Is It - Michael Jackson
    4. Fearless - Taylor Swift
    5. The Fame - Lady Gaga



  6. Summer farewell tour?

    (I'm just feeding into the hype. They won't break up.)
  7. The End of the Decade blues. It happened with Rattle and Hum, it happened with Pop and now we are experiencing it with No Line On The Horizon. Albums that were not received as well as their previous (Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and HTDAAB). I know this band will reinvent themselves and a give it one last kick at the can. The major issue facing the band now is that majority of music lovers pay $1.29 for their fav song (or download illegally) and the art form of the album is gone. I am a manager of Best Buy and a bit older than the majority of the associates I work with and they wonder why my iPod is filled with entire albums when all they have is 5-6 songs from each artist. "How can you listen to an entire album worth of material from an artist? Why don't you have a playlist of their top songs?" I hope this is not the end of U2. Songs like North Star were well received during concerts when performed so it shows they can still make relavent music that people can enjoy and sing along to.
  8. I don t think is the end.

    They will not retire without a " Goodbye" tour



  9. Well I think Lady Gaga deserves to be there, and also again... who doesn't want to be relevant??? That being said, the person who said that they were #7 and then had the highest grossing tour of all time was right. Perhaps if at least one of the singles had been a success the boys (or Bono) would have been happy?
  10. Taylor Swift and Lady GaGa
  11. Originally posted by AMLBONO:The major issue facing the band now is that majority of music lovers pay $1.29 for their fav song (or download illegally) and the art form of the album is gone. I am a manager of Best Buy and a bit older than the majority of the associates I work with and they wonder why my iPod is filled with entire albums when all they have is 5-6 songs from each artist. "How can you listen to an entire album worth of material from an artist? Why don't you have a playlist of their top songs?"


    I've encountered this before although I figure I'm younger than yourself. People are only interested in the singles these days and in pop music, that's probably the way forward since the rest of the album is either much poorer, lacks difference or has no flow.

    I'll take three of the top pop acts at the moment. Katy Perry released 6 out of 12 songs as singles from her previous album and a further unreleased song has charted. Rihanna released 7/11 singles from her 2010 album, Loud. Bruno Mars has released 4 singles already from his album, a fifth is on it's way and a 6th was released as a promotional single. That's 6 out of 10.

    Now U2 in comparison, released 3 from NLOTH. If they released 7 out of 11 like Rihanna did...I can't even think of 7 singles. Maybe the first half plus Breathe but there's no way U2 could've pulled it off. They would've been criticised to high heaven.

    Maybe illegal downloads are starting to cripple U2's sales. I'd safely say anybody who is a U2 fan and doesn't fall into the 2000-2004 category probably bought NLOTH. I illegally downloaded it when it leaked but I went and bought it and also bought the singles. Today's artists strike it rich by pre-releasing only through iTunes which stems the availability of singles.

    If U2 want to be relevant, then the way forward is to write a bunch of pop songs, stick them all on a CD and keep feeding the public one by one.

    Album wise, they outsold everyone in 2009 except for Taylor Swift, Michael Buble and Black Eyed Peas (Refuse to count Susan Boyle, she was in a talent show) and scored a number one album, becoming the joint 3rd most successful artist in the UK. People even bought more copies of NLOTH than they did Thriller after Jackson's death. Single wise, U2 were destroyed.



    They chose the wrong singles in my opinion. They released Get On Your Boots then whenever they promoted the album on TV, Breathe would always outshine it.
  12. There aren't 2 singles on NLOTH let alone 6. In fact there haven't been 6 good candidates for singles to an album since AB.
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