Forgettable Fire... U2 tops the unwanted music list this Christmas
Daily Mail,
December 29, 2011
By: Damien Gayle
U2 have topped the charts once again, but this time with the most unwanted CD of Christmas 2011.
The Joshua Tree, the ageing Irish rockers 1987 album, the No. 1 traded in release on December the 25 and 26, according to online marketplace Music Magpie. The online music trading service yesterday revealed that 24,958 copies of the long player were exchanged for cash and vouchers.
In second place came Lady Gaga's Fame Monster, with 20,054 copies traded in, ahead of Michael Jackson's seminal Thriller album, at 19,702.
Rom-coms topped the list of traded in DVDs. Dirty Dancing, the Eighties coming of age drama starring the late Patrick Swayze, was the least wanted film with 21,323 exchanged. And another Swayze film, Ghost, from 1990 came in second place at 19,401 DVDs traded, ahead of gritty heroin drama Trainspotting.
Music Magpie sells two-thirds of the CDs sent to them, with the rest recycled. Eren Ozagir, a spokesman for the firm, told the Sun: 'For a deluxe version of Joshua Tree you'd get £3.'
(c) Daily Mail, 2011.
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