The legendary rock group just notched the eighth No. 1 album of their career on the Billboard 200 this week with their newest release, Songs of Experience.
The album moved 186,000 equivalent album units – 180,000 of those were through traditional album sales, according to Billboard. It’s also the biggest week for a rock album in 2017! The band last hit No. 1 with 2009′s No Line on the Horizon.
U2 is now the only group to have earned No. 1 albums in the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s. Congratulations!
Jimmy Kimmel once again teamed up with Bono and his (RED) foundation for their annual (RED) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (November 29), and you can watch all the videos here!
For the third year in a row, the 49-year-old comedian hosted the holiday-themed benefit episode in an effort to raise awareness and money to help the fight against AIDS in honor of World AIDS Day on December 1.
U2‘s Bono delivered a smoky rendition of the Frank Sinatra classic “One for My Baby” with help from Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and Sean Penn.
The 23-year-old two-time Oscar-nominated actress will host the NBC sketch comedy show on December 2 with U2 as the musical guest.
This will be Saoirse‘s first time hosting the show.
Saoirse is currently getting Oscar buzz for her work in the new movie Lady Bird, which is currently playing in limited release. The film will expand nationwide over Thanksgiving weekend and we suggest you go see it. Rotten Tomatoes has given it a rare 100% fresh rating!
Jared Leto showed off his signature style at the Los 40 Music Awards!
The 45-year-old actor and musician hit the red carpet with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars on Friday night (November 10) at WiZink Center in Madrid, Spain.
Bono and the guys of U2 stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live, and made sure to share some words about the horrific explosion that occurred after Ariana Grande‘s concert on Monday (May 22) in in Manchester, England.
“They hate music. They hate women. They even hate little girls. They hate everything that we love,” the 57-year-old U2 frontman said of the attackers on Tuesday’s (May 23) episode. “And, you know, the worst of humanity was on view in Manchester last night, but so was the best as people took perfect strangers into their houses and cued up blood banks. Manchester has a undefeatable spirit, I can assure you.”
“Everything’s different now. It really is, the game has changed,” Bono expressed. “I have so much respect for a lot of the people who voted President Trump into office. I really understand, I understand the anger, I have some of that anger myself coming from where we came from. I understand people being disillusioned in the political process. I don’t think he’s the cure for this problem and I think he might even make it worse. I don’t think that there’s any evidence in his life that he has the people who are hardest hit in mind.”
“That really saddens me me because I know he likes to see their faces in the crowd but I don’t think he wants to know who they are when they go home,” Bono concluded. “That saddens me.”
Bono on Manchester Concert Attack
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Jimmy Kimmel teamed up with Bono and his (RED) foundation for a special episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (November 22) and you can watch all the videos here!
For the second year in a row, the 49-year-old comedian hosted the holiday-themed benefit episode in an effort to raise awareness and money to help the fight against AIDS in honor of World AIDS Day on December 1.
