Music
11 Jul 05

U2 set Album Chart record

In what is almost certainly an all-time record, U2 currently have no less than eleven albums in the Irish Top 75, as compiled by IRMA.

The unprecedented explosion in sales by the band comes in the wake of their similarly record-breaking three-night run at Croke Park, which saw them play to a total audience of around a quarter of a million, and last week’s Live 8 appearance in Hyde Park.
U2’s current album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which has already gone multi-platinum in Ireland, leads the charge at No. 4, and The Joshua Tree – voted the No. 1 Greatest Irish Album of All Time this year by Hotpress readers – follows at No. 12.
Both of their Best Of… collections also feature in the Top 20, with …1980-1990 at No. 13 and …1990-2000 at No. 19.
The other chart placings are: All That You Can’t Leave Behind (32); Achtung Baby (35); Rattle And Hum (43); Live: Under A Blood Red Sky (48); The Unforgettable Fire (53); Boy (63); and War (67).
Of their entire recorded output to date, only October, Pop and Zooropa are outside the Top 75 cut-off.
Meanwhile, they also have three titles in the Music Video Top 10, with Go Home: Live From Slane Castle at No. 1, The Best Of 1990-2000 at No. 6 and Rattle And Hum at No. 9.