On their new LP, the legendary Irish rockers – lead by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. – have re-recorded and re-interpreted songs spanning the band’s 40-year profession. The album shares a reputation with Bono’s memoir launched final 12 months, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
Songs of Surrender would grant U2 their eleventh UK chart-topper, and their first album to achieve the highest of the Official Albums Chart in additional than a decade. They final reached the summit with 2009’s No Line on the Horizon, and scored consecutive Top 10 entries throughout the final decade with 2014’s Songs of Innocence (6) and 2017’s Songs of Experience (5).
The band’s best hits, U218 Singles additionally seems set for a Top 40 re-entry this week (33) having beforehand peaked at Number 6 in 2006. See U2’s Official Charts historical past in full right here.
Brighton indie-rock foursome Black Honey may web their second Top 10 document (and highest-charting but) with A Fistful of Peaches (3), as American pop-punk titans All Time Low cruise in direction of their fifth Top 10 with Tell Me I’m Alive (6).
Further down, Northern Irish onerous rock outfit Answer search to realize their first Top 20 entry with Sundowners (12) and Madchester rock motion scions Inspiral Carpets’ best hits The Complete Singles strikes to turn into their highest-charting document since 1995 (16).
Following the beginning of her long-awaited Eras Tour stateside, a quartet of Taylor Swift’s hottest albums rise within the Official Albums Chart Update. Midnights (7), 2014 pop opus 1989 (25), 2019’s Lover (29) and 2020’s lockdown masterpiece folklore (37) all topped the Official Albums Chart upon launch.
Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit have a good time the tenth anniversary of their fourth album Pedestrian Verse with a vinyl re-issue, in reminiscence of late frontman Scott Hutchison (32). The band’s main label debut, it initially peaked at Number 9 in 2013.
Finally, French digital group M83’s ninth album Fantasy may turn into their second Top 40 assortment (35).
