U2's 'Bomb' Explodes at No. 1 on U.S. Charts
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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."
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Jazz singer/pianist Norah Jones' first album in three years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but its first-week sales were less than half those of its predecessor, according to Billboard.
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US punk-pop band Green Day's latest CD tops the UK album chart, selling 1.45m copies worldwide in a week.
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This isn't the kind of bomb U2 expected to be dropped.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pop band Maroon 5's first album in four years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. charts Wednesday, while veteran rocker Ozzy Osbourne scored a personal best with his first release in six years.
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Pirated versions of U2's new album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have emerged on Internet file-sharing networks two weeks before it goes on sale, throwing into question its official release date.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Irish rock band U2 is set to  explode on the road at the end of March, just in time for a  beleaguered concert industry desperate for a major  buzz-generating tour.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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U2's new single "Vertigo" charged to the top of the UK's singles charts on Sunday, knocking last week's top tune, "Just Lose It," by rapper Eminem down to third place, the Official UK Charts Company said.
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THE new album by the rock veterans U2 is called How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. An alternative could have been How To Kill The Compact Disc And Make Two Billion Dollars.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Pop-punk band Green Day scored  its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with  "American Idiot," the group's fifth studio set and its first  release in four years.
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BAND Aid 20&#39;s Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas? is set to be No1 in the charts this week - and the best-selling single of the year.
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Illustrating its deepening relationship with the music industry, Apple Computer Inc. announced Tuesday a digital album set featuring all of the rock band U2&#39;s 400-plus recorded
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Irish rock legends U2 launched their new album in the US market Tuesday with a surprise, free concert that saw the group performing in the streets of New York City on a flatbed truck.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - 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."
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - U2 has sold more than 120 million  albums worldwide and won 14 Grammy Awards during the course of  its 26-year career, so you would think that there would be a  level of ease that comes with a new release.