Stones roll by U2 for top-grossing tour ever
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Though they'll surely live to fight another day, U2's brief stint holding the title of top-grossing tour ever is over. That distinction returns to the Rolling Stones, whose A Bigger Bang tour is now the top-grossing tour in history.
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Veteran British rock band the Rolling  Stones has signed an exclusive worldwide recording agreement to  release its next album through Universal Music Group, prompting  speculation that it could leave EMI.
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Brit boy band Blue edged Irish rock group U2 to a top honor at France's biggest music awards on Saturday night, with hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas and pop band Maroon 5 scooping awards of their own.
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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.
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A quarter of a century into their career, most rock bands are content to wheel out a greatest hits album every now and then. Not Ireland's U2, who, according to their manager, are still getting better.
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The Rolling Stones got their world tour  back on track on Sunday, with lead singer Mick Jagger showing  no obvious signs of the laryngitis that forced the band to  cancel two gigs last week in Spain.
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Like Pied Pipers with guitars and brogues, the rock group U2 serenaded New Yorkers yesterday from the back of a moving flatbed truck, all the while singing their new single &quot;It&#39;s All Because of You.
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Veteran rock band The Rolling Stones are named the top earning  musicians of the past year.
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Rock band U2 is honoured at France's NRJ Music Awards, but is beaten to a prize by boy band Blue.
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U2 frontman Bono has won out in a rock rivalry with a young upstart over who would sing the most famous line in the remake of the Christmas charity hit &quot;Do They Know It's Christmas&quot;.
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U2 has been a familiar sight to iTunes Music Store visitors in recent weeks, with the online music store featuring everything from a U2-themed iPod to a digital boxed set of the Irish rock band&#39;s recordings.
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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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The Rolling Stones got their world tour   back on track on Sunday, with lead singer Mick Jagger showing   no obvious signs of the laryngitis that forced the band to   cancel two gigs last week in Spain.
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The Material Girl made the most money touring this year.
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Irish rockers U2 roared straight to the  top of the pop charts on Sunday with their new single  "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own," fending off  competition from the latest Elvis Presley re-release.
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The Rolling Stones' European tour kicked off in Belgium to a big crowd, rave reviews &#151; and a massive traffic jam.
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Irish boy band Westlife were the surprise winners of a high-profile battle to top the album charts on Sunday, beating Oasis, the Beatles and U2 to the top spot.