Bono acknowledges his role in the controversial Songs of Innocence release in his upcoming memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Before you could stream your favorite album at will on the likes of Spotify or Apple Music, there was iTunes. In an experimental release strategy, U2’s Songs of Innocence was uploaded to the iTunes libraries […]
Read MoreU2 The Most Listened To Artist On iOS
According to a study of 2,510 iOS users conducted by independent research firm Kantar, U2 is the most popular band among iTunes users. The results of a survey Kantar conducted in January 2015 indicate that about 23 percent of Apple users listened to at least one song from Songs of Innocence during that month. That […]
Read MoreU2’s deal with Apple, and why some people went Bananas
I’m sure everyone has stumbled across some negativity towards the recent release of Songs Of Innocence for free on iTunes. This is my interpretation of what happened. So U2 and Apple made a deal. Apple will pay U2 a lump sum of money (reportedly $100m), in order to buy the rights to give Songs Of […]
Read MoreU2 and Apple teaming up on September 9th, not so fast
Today the twitter-verse sort of exploded a wee bit with news of a possible U2 & Apple get together on September 9th. It all started with Bryan MacDonald’s tweet stating that the new U2 album will be “pre loaded” on the new iPhone 6, and we should expect an onslaught of promotion with a playing […]
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