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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    Lol, it's because people are arguing about it in every other thread.

    I fucking love this album. Call me a fanboy. I love the music, the lyrics, I love listening to it and thinking the whole time "man, this is the band who recorded Boy, now listen to the songs they're writing". I love that Bono is singing to his kids as much as singing to himself. It's a very wise album. Little Things is the best song they've written in a very long time, and this album is the best they've written in a very long time IMO. I'm still not bored of it at all. It's dark, heavy, sweet, powerful, etc.

    That's why I'm not posting so much. I hate sounding like a fanboy. Plus I'm just too busy enjoying this album to let anyone's negative opinion impact a listen of it


    +1
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Exactly. It's all explained in my previous post.


    total amount of SOE copies "sold" in the first week
    -
    the estimate amount of copies included as ticket&album bundles
    +
    the estimate amount of copies that (some of) these fans would have bought anyway regardless the bundle
    _____________

    much less than the reported amount of albums sold which got them a #1.

    There’s no doubt the number of albums sold would have reduced without the ticket album bundle deal but could it not still have been enough to beat the sales of whoever was #2 in the charts?
  4. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]

    There’s no doubt the number of albums sold would have reduced without the ticket album bundle deal but could it not still have been enough to beat the sales of whoever was #2 in the charts?
    Well, I don't have the precise figures for the U2 release, but take a look at the previous #1 Billboard that had a ticket+album bundle:

    In October, P!nk's new album, Beautiful Trauma, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with two-thirds of her 384,000 albums sold tied to ticket sales, while about 80,000 of the 134,000 copies of Shania Twain's Now album sold in its first week came from ticket bundling.

    So, well, one could deduce that U2 shouldn't be far from those figures, and SOE sales without the bundle would have been much much poorer. Which is something perfectly understandable and by no means is a critic to the band.


  5. Wow, those stats are impressive. Better than Coldplay & Guns n Roses. The combined strength of U2 and their most successful album...
  7. relevant is U2 concerts are much more expensive then GnR and Coldplay concerts
  8. That just proves even more how popular they are because if you look at the number of tickets sold per show then they outdid all the bands on there as well. So not only are they outselling them but they’re outselling them with more expensive tickets. Only the stones would have had more expensive tickets.
  9. that depends on the venues

    love for money (of fans)
  10. I think most or maybe all of that list were playing stadiums that were comparable with what u2 were playing. We’re not talking a couple of hundred tickets per show difference there’s a major difference. Only the stones come close to them in that particular category, they could be considered genuine competition.

    Edit: maybe not Bruno mars, ed Sheeran and depeche mode all played arenas. The others are fair comparisons though. Plus they still had to sell the tickets anyway, big venues doesn’t guarantee big sales.
  11. the more you listen to soe the more you like it, imo
  12. The more i play it the more i want to play it
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