U2 had no US singles 2000-2005?
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Topic: U2 had no US singles 2000-2005?
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Subject: U2 had no US singles 2000-2005?
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 3:20pm
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So this was news to me. Sorry if it's not news to
everyone else here. I was glancing through the booklet of U2's 18 Singles CD and I was a bit taken aback to notice than no songs from "All That You Can't Leave Behind" or "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" were officially released as singles in the US. That is surprising because I remember songs like "Beautiful Day", "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" blanketing the airwaves and video channels. Not to mention rockers "Elevation" and "Vertigo" which also got used in multiple commercials. So is this true? Is there no US chart data for those U2 singles? Surely the airplay was through the roof for most of them. Did Casey Kasem include any of them in his countdowns? ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |
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Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 4:27pm
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They had several songs during that period that charted either on the Hot 100 or Bubbling Under charts. There probably weren't commercial singles for them at the time because the labels had already been trying to get away from releasing singles for several years in hopes of pushing up album sales. Billboard started allowing Airplay-Only songs on the main Hot 100 in December 1998, so they did have some chart hits after then despite not having physical singles released for them. A few of those might have had 7 or 12 Inch Vinyl Singles released, but I don't think sales of those counted for much (if at all) for a song's placement on the Hot 100. ------------- Dan In Philly |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 4:27pm
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I just checked my Whitburn and counted 9 charted U2
songs between 00 and 05. Only 2 of them ("Beautiful Day" and "Vertigo") list catalog #s, so it appears the rest were airplay hits with no commercially available single. Keep in mind that by the 00s, very few physical singles were released. As to why the band didn't include any of these songs on their CD, I have no idea. When was the disc released? |
Posted By: thecdguy
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 4:40pm
According to Discogs, the compilation was released in 2006 and does include "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of". "Elevation", "Vertigo", "Beautiful Day" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own". ------------- Dan In Philly |
Hykker wrote:Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 6:26pm
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There must have been promo singles released because TM
Studios lists radio edits for: Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own All the others were the same as the album versions. ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 10 June 2020 at 2:47am
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The only commercially released singles were...
Beautiful Day - Island 562972 (12" vinyl only) Vertigo - Island 003580 (7" vinyl only) |
Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 10 June 2020 at 2:23pm
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Yeah, 2000 was around the time record companies stopped
releasing commercial singles to force people to buy the whole album. "Vertigo" was a stand-alone digital single in the US. |
Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 10 June 2020 at 6:04pm
The songs are included but the liner note information indicates chart info only for the UK. In the US chart info section, it indicates "not commercially released in the US". ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |