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Thanks to MJDangerous at UKMIX chart forums, U2 album sales in France 2003-2008 according to Gfk: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 474,398 18 Singles - 249,999 *Best Of 90/00 - 143,763 *Best Of 80/90 - 130,105 The Joshua Tree - 53,212 War - 51,375 All That You Can't Leave Behind -...

Last 3 wks on BB Top 200 Back Catalogue chart : OUT (last wk '08, total: 945,454) #11 with 6,893 (RE, total: 952,347) #171 with 1,492 (-78%, total: 953,839) It was on 831,252 to the end of ‘07 so it sold another 114,202 copies in US in ’08 at an average of 2,196 per week

UK 1st week sales (from Music Week/CIN/OCC) : Rattle & Hum - 360,000 Joshua Tree - 235,000 HTDAAB - 200,863 Achtung Baby - 200,000 ATYCLB - 164,000 Pop - 152,000 Best Of 80-90 - 140,000 Zooropa - most probably about 140,000 (Vox magazine at the time said 200k but MW actually said 150,000 in...

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Music Week said 11m (sold) for ATYCLB in it's September 14th 2002 issue. Then in it's 18th January 2003 issue they said ATYCLB had now shipped 11m outside the UK (meaning over 12m in total). By November 2004 U2's record company apparantly reported total shipments of 13.5m (on BBC radio 1-right...

'18' is also #115 on the BB comprehensive chart so i make it at around 6.9k sold (& ~950k in total). It also re-entered here in the UK two weeks ago at #153 on sales of around 3.5k, then last week dropped to #172 with ~2.7k. It's UK total is probably now around 770k.

Yes, it got 3xPlatinum sometime between March & July 2001 & Music Week (UK music industry bible) gave over the counter sales of 1,083,169 to end of Sat 5th Mar 2005. Since than it's spent another 9 wks in the top 200 (all in 2005), peaking at #91, meaning total UK sales/shipments must now be...

Music & Media Top 100 European album chart runs, certs, YEC's since 1987 : Joshua Tree (NE Mar 28th '87 & in wk 2 : 'never before has a no.1 emerged so quickly in the Top 100', YEC’s '87 2nd, '88 70th) ...

Australian Top 50 album chart runs 1988-1998 (excluding Best Of '80-90) : Rattle & Hum : 1 (ne 06/11/88)-1-1-1-1-2-2-6-8-8-10-10-9-13-15-15-20-23-25-37-40-45-42-44-x(x15)-49 (re 13/08/89)-35-35-31-31-28-19-15-9-6-11-10-16-12-16-19-24-27-32-40-41-40-38-39-41-44-50 (#1x5,T.5x7,T.10x16,T.20x27,51...

US Comprehensive chart positions & approx sales : War 146.~5k-x... Boy 169.~4.5k-x... October 189.~4.2k-x... UK (unbelievably they all dropped out the top 200 just the following week!) : Boy 76.1967-x... War 77.1956-x... October 79.1944-x... Germany : Boy 89-x... October 96-x... (War...

+ a few other countries : UK : 51.14,499 (NE)-70.~9.5k-99.~5.8k-155.~2.5k-192.~1.3k-x...~40k now sold Japan : 8/35.7,431 (NE wk 2 UK)-18/76.3,003-76/173.2,542 (last 2 wks-12,976)-226.699 (13,675)-x... Germany (normal/combined charts) : 43/52 (NE, 67 woc)-58/71 (last 2...

US run & sales, wk 1 : 20/85.20544 (+999%, 211, 21261) wk 2 : 33/143.~11k wk 3 : 43/186.~10k wk 4 : xT.50/?.~10k wk 5 : 40/?.~14k wk 6 : 42/?.~8k wk 7 : 45.3933 (1st wk ’08) wk 8 : 57.2861 (-27%, 80653) wk's 9-19 : don't have the exact info but from the correct wk's 20-23 figures, below, it...

18 Singles. It's been out 18 months now so it's been transferred to the catalogue chart. TJT re-issue dropped out the catalogue top 200 a few weeks back.

Back in the Top 75 ! It sold ~3.1k (Total : 723k)

Sales must've increased by about 300%, from ~950 to ~2,850 (Total : 720,000)