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"Our music in the early '80s, it might have been ecstatic, but it wasn't really sexy, was it? Now we're sexy and ecstatic." -- Bono, 2001 |
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U2 Scores Top Tour of 2009, Second of DecadeFull recap of U2 appearances on Billboard's year-end of decade-end charts
@U2,
December 14, 2009
Billboard magazine has published dozens of lists recapping its chart tracking for both 2009 and the entire decade. The most jaw-dropping chart is the Top Touring Artists of the Decade, where U2 ranks number two overall with nearly a billion dollars in gross revenue from touring -- $844,157,925 to be exact. The Rolling Stones are first, beating U2 by a paltry $25 million. Billboard's numbers show U2 selling 9,869,953 tickets during the decade, second to the seemingly always-on-tour Dave Matthews Band (11,230,696). As for the 2009 calendar year, the U2 360 tour is ranked number one with more than $311 million gross and more than three million tickets sold.
All That You Can't Leave Behind
The Best of 1980-1990 If you're curious, Billboard says its charts are "calculated using custom formulas collecting sales, streaming and radio play." © @U2, 2009.
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