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U2's follow up albums Zooropa and Pop continued the band's experimentation with alternative rock and electronic dance music, reaching number one worldwide but with reduced sales. U2 regained commercial favour with the release of All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2000, returning to a more mainstream sound.
The album debuted at number one in 32 countries, [41] [42] including Canada where first-week sales totaled 71,470 copies. [40] According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 4.4 million copies in the US through March 2014. [43] All That You Can't Leave Behind is the fourth-highest-selling U2 album, with total sales of over 12 million. [44]
4 March: U2 release Pop. The album debuts at number one in 35 countries and drew mainly positive reviews. [112] [113] Sales were poor compared to previous U2 releases. [114] 15 April: "Staring at the Sun" is released as Pop's second single. U2 stage designer Willie Williams and stage architect Mark Fisher developed the PopMart Tour.
It was the largest sales week of any rock album in the US in 2017. [139] The album charted for nine weeks on the Billboard 200. [140] The record entered the Canadian Albums Chart at number one with 24,000 copies sold among 25,000 album-equivalent units, making it U2's sixth album to top the country's chart during the Nielsen SoundScan era. [141]
The album also debuted at number one on six Billboard charts: Top Album Sales, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums, and Top Current Album Sales. The album's first-week sales of 19,500 vinyl copies in the US was U2's highest-selling week on vinyl since Luminate began electronically tracking sales ...
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA. The albums released prior ...
In the United States, it was U2's seventh number-one album; first-week sales exceeded 484,000, the band's second-highest figures after How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. [104] In the United Kingdom, the album sold 157,928 copies in its first week to become U2's tenth number-one album, making them the fifth-most-successful act on the UK Albums Chart.
Top Album Sales is a music chart published by Billboard magazine documenting the best-selling albums on a weekly basis in the United States. Up until December 2014, this had been documented by the Billboard 200 chart, but that chart was altered to factor in music streaming by accounting for album-equivalent units in its tallies to document the effect of the rise of music streaming outlet such ...