Will U2 top the UK charts for the 11th time?

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U2 are on their way to the top once again: According to the Official Charts Company, their new album Songs of Surrender is currently outselling the rest of the top 5 combined in the UK. That could mean that on Friday (24 March) the Irish rock band will have an album at the top of the UK charts for the eleventh time in total. They last managed to do this in 2009 with the record “No Line on the Horizon”.

The two following albums “Songs of Innocence” (2011) and “Songs of Experience” (2017) both “only” made it into the top 10 in the UK charts – “Songs of Innocence” ended up at sixth and “Songs of Experience” in fifth place. Previously, all nine records since 1983’s “War” have been number one in the UK charts, with the exception of 1991’s “Achtung, Baby”. That’s a total of nine out of 14 records. In Germany, too, U2 have often landed at number one in the charts: out of a total of 14, seven albums have made it to the top. ROLLING STONE editor Birgit Fuss awarded the maximum rating of 5 stars for “Songs of Surrender”.

On Friday, March 17th, the new record “Songs Of Surrender” was finally released. It is a collection of 40 U2 songs in new form and instrumentalization. To mark the occasion, the two band members Bono and The Edge sat down with Zane Lowe from Apple Music for an interview and talked about, among other things, why their collaboration works so well.

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