This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. U2 have the number one album in the country this week: U2 achieves its eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the rock band’s new Songs of Experience debuts atop the tally. The set bows with 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 7, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 180,000 were in traditional album sales. Expand - View Original
If you're gonna go with that joke, should be "mid-40's white dudes who still read Rolling Stone are stoked".
Yeah, U2 is such a household name that it doesn't really matter if what they release is good or a piece of crap. People will buy it. Can't think of many other rock artists who still have this power and popularity.