believer75
War Child
If by quiet confidence you mean sitting around on their butts while NLOTH slips further and further down the charts...then yes. Albums don't sell themselves these days...
NLOTH is selling itself these days.....it's the biggest seller of the year, right?
And they did promote the album...heavily at the beginning. How much promotion do you remember for The Fly? Numb? Discotheque? I don't remember them being on Letterman, Good Morning America, playing off the rooftops somewhere for those albums. They did not start really promoting their singles until All That and Bomb..okay, I do remember KMART, sorry, but even then it was a b-side to promote the tour.
I don't doubt the legs of any U2 album. Especially when they are a forever band and their albums will be played until the end of our world. U2, Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Dylan, Cash, will always sell. So do I think it will eventually sell more copies that VLV? There is a chance and probably it will. Just depends on when you want to end that race.