"Songs of Surrender" is leading the race to become U2's eleventh UK number one album, outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined.
U2 Outselling Top 5, Songs of Surrender Racing To Number 1
For their new album, the iconic Irish rock band, led by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr., re-recorded and re-interpreted songs from their 40-year career.
The CD has the same title as Bono's memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, which was released the previous year. Songs of Surrender would give U2 their eleventh UK number-one album, and their first in over a decade, according to the Official Albums Chart.
They last topped the charts with 2009's No Line on the Horizon, and have landed in the Top 10 with 2014's Songs of Innocence (6) and 2017's Songs of Experience (7). (5). The band's greatest hits, U218 Hits, is also expected to re-enter the Top 40 this week (33) after peaking at No. 6 in 2006. See U2's whole Official Charts history here. Black Honey's "A Fistful of Peaches" (3) might become their second Top 10 album (and highest-charting to date), while American pop-punk titans' "All Time Low's Tell Me I'm Alive" approaches their fifth Top 10. (6).
Lower down, Northern Irish hard rock band, Answer attempts to enter the Top 20 with "Sundowners" (12), while Madchester rock movement progeny Inspiral Carpets' greatest hits collection "The Collected Singles becomes their highest-charting album since 1995. (16). After the start of Taylor Swift's long-awaited Eras Tour in the United States, four of her most popular albums climb the Official Albums Chart Update. Midnights (7), 2014's pop blockbuster 1989 (25), 2019's Lover (29) and 2020's lockdown masterwork folklore (37) all debuted at number one on the Official Albums Chart.
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Frightened Rabbit commemorate the tenth anniversary of their fourth album, Pedestrian Verse, with a vinyl re-release in honour of the late leader, Scott Hutchison (32). 2013 was the debut year for the band's major label debut, which peaked at number nine. Fantasy, the ninth album by French electronic trio M83, might become their second Top 40 collection (35).
But Will U2 Disband Soon?
This positive news comes after speculations that the band will be disbanding soon.
Bono, the leader of U2, has admitted that the band contemplated disbanding multiple times over their nearly 50-year career.
The 22-time Grammy Award winner claimed that each of the band's four members, including himself, Adam Clayton, The Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr., had at some point contemplated leaving. In the Disney+ documentary "A Kind of Homecoming," he revealed that every member of U2 has contemplated leaving the band and this is just natural.
Still, in the documentary "the genuine magic of U2," he told David Letterman that they always had access to the people and resources they required. Even after all these years, they have managed to remain united despite the fact that Bono's aims as a political activist frequently forced them out of their comfort zone. According to the guitarist, the band has taught them how to be global citizens.
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