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The following year, readers of Q voted "One" the fifth-greatest song in history. [49] The song subsequently appeared as one of seven U2 songs in the 2006 music reference book 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories, and Secrets. [50] It is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll ...
U2 have released 15 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide. [1] They have won 22 Grammy Awards —the most of any band—and in 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
"One Tree Hill" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the ninth track on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree. In March 1988, it was released as the fourth single from the album in New Zealand and Australia, while "In God's Country" was released as the fourth single in North America. [1] "
Following the release of their single "Another Day" in 1980, U2 signed a recording contract with Island Records, [2] and released their first album, Boy, later that year. The band has since released 15 full-length studio albums, the most recent being Songs of Surrender in 2023.
The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2.It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 by Island Records.In contrast to the ambient experimentation of their 1984 release, The Unforgettable Fire, the band aimed for a harder-hitting sound within the limitation of conventional song structures on The Joshua Tree.
The success of Achtung Baby and the Zoo TV Tour re-established U2 as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed musical acts in the world. The group nearly swept Rolling Stone ' s 1992 end-of-year readers' polls, winning honours for "Best Single" ("One"), "Artist of the Year", "Best Album", "Best Songwriter" (Bono), "Best Album Cover ...
It becomes U2's second number one single in the UK. [97] 19 November: U2 release Achtung Baby. 25 November: "Mysterious Ways" is released as Achtung Baby's second single. The song reaches Number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the band's fourth-highest-charting single. [citation needed]
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.