U2 Close In On Half A Million Sales Of “No Line On The Horizon”

March 17, 2009 by: Rodney

u2nolinecd As expected, U2’s new project “No Line On The Horizon” soared to the top of the charts in it’s debut week, selling 484,000 copies to give them their second-best U.S. debut ever according to rollingstone.com. Bruce Springsteen’s “Working On A Dream”. The project did fall slightly under what the industry was expecting over half a million copies sold.

But, Universal Music Group’s Australian division (who accidentally leaked the LP weeks before its release), might be to blame. 2004’s “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” sold 840,000 copies in it’s first week, but these totals for the first week of a new U2 project fall in line with their other projects. For example “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” sold roughly 428,000 copies when it hit the charts in 2000.