“U2 earned its sixth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday as its new set ‘How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb’ sold almost twice as many copies in its first week as 2000’s ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind.’ The new Interscope album moved 840,000 copies in the Thanksgiving holiday week ended Nov. 28, according to sales data from Nielsen SoundScan… The album’s arrival was heralded by first single ‘Vertigo,’ which is featured in Apple Computer’s iPod/iTunes TV commercial,” Margo Whitmire reports for Billboard.
Full article here.
do the sales now include the iTMS???
Yeah, do they? I’d love to know how the sales figures map out: of the 840k sold, how many were downloaded rather than purchased in brick-and-mortar stores?
who cares…. Eminem – encore… did that in 4 days
I doubt Eminem will be around as long as U2 have been.
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by the way MDN. This magic password thing does not work half the time, and that flash animation of the smilies on the right keeps me up at night.
Eminem did it in four days — just goes to show people will buy anything these days….
Geese, and I thought U2 were hasbeens
Obviously not!
I hate u2’s new stuff, it’s shite…
80s-90s were the best
EMINEM? Who gives a crap what a self absorbed trailer-trash little white bitch who only has a contract cuz he’s givin’ Dre unlimited cone sold in four days. Come to think of it, why am I here? I couldn’t care less about U2’s record sales either…
And to think people doubted Apple’s logic by promoting U2.
yeah eminem, nsync, and the backstreet boys… but they all suck
has that dude ever rapped about anything other than himself? i suppose thats better than ice, and rims, yyeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhh!