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U2 - The Blackout
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Songs Of Experience (2017)
  1. Originally posted by U2_Edge:[..]
    Singles in physical format are barely sold nowadays except to a small group of collectors.
    I am one of those collectors yes....
    On the contrary, "You're The Best Thing About Me" will be available from the 6th , NOT in physical format but in digital format.
    So that is really really bad news in my opinion, so the collectors are ignored (I think the bunch of those are hardcore U2 fans)...
    Really sad news
    Has been happening since 2009 so no surprise there sadly


  2. Streets video is great yeah, I missed that in my mind
  3. It's kinda daft they don't release physical singles as there's plenty of us that would still buy them but if the songs going to be on the album anyway then I'll be downloading it for free somewhere. I refuse to pay money for the download then buy the album a few months later with the same song on it.
  4. "For all we know, they may have shot video all day or night before or after that little "gig"..

    they did actualy, in Soho in London but also in Amsterdam the night after the first gig, his voice wasn't great the 2nd gig for that reason
  5. Originally posted by U2_Edge:[..]
    Singles in physical format are barely sold nowadays except to a small group of collectors.
    I am one of those collectors yes....
    On the contrary, "You're The Best Thing About Me" will be available from the 6th , NOT in physical format but in digital format.
    So that is really really bad news in my opinion, so the collectors are ignored (I think the bunch of those are hardcore U2 fans)...
    Really sad news


    I'm sure there will be promotional CD singles available for radio... likely in plain sleeve packaging with no art.
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong:^ regarding that, U2enEspaña says this:

    U2 shared yesterday, August 30th the "The Blackout" video through their social networks, a song that will be included in the long awaited album "Songs of Experience". The announcement published the day before also mentioned that "You're the Best Thing About Me", the first single of the album, will be released on September 6th.
    If we had "The Blackout" first, why can we consider it the first single? What is "The Blackout" then? Does that mean we're going to have a physical format for that first single but not for "The Blackout"?
    The answer is quite simple and we have to understand it in the context of the digital age that we live in. Singles in physical format are barely sold nowadays except to a small group of collectors. "The Blackout" will NOT go on sale either in physical format or in digital format. Neither will it sound in radios or other means, despite the fact that some radio stations played it yesterday right after the video aired. It was something they did on their own and extracting the audio from the video file.
    On the contrary, "You're The Best Thing About Me" will be available from the 6th , NOT in physical format but in digital format. It will also be distributed to the radios so they can play and promote the song and the album.
    This is a tiny difference but big enough to consider "You're The Best Thing About Me" a single while "The Blackout" can’t be included in that category despite it was aired first.


    interesting. BUT WHAT'S BEING RELEASED TOMORROW OMFG
  9. Album version of The Blackout please
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