Registered Dude
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
Ok - I've wasted an hour of my lunch for this speculative nonsense. Thankfully, I love Excel. I'm creating a new post for this, because it's really about U2.com and not the new album. But I'm posting it in this forum because it might say something about how the sell themselves (and any new albums)
I went to U2.com and listed the date associated with every news story posted for a two year period, August 2012-2014, which I plotted in this chart.
The X-axis represents each month, while Y displays the number of stories posted within that month.
Why U2.com? Well I figured that anything posted here represents official wording from the band. And I thought we looked closely we might be able to see some interesting patterns/observations.
Interesting observations:
August 2012-2013 - they averaged 5 posts a month
August 2013-2014 - they averaged 4 posts a month, BUT, if look at March 2014 onward, it's closer to 2/month.
The last 3 months have seen the fewest posts of any three month window in the entire period.
Speculations/Conclusions:
- The were in super secret mode in March 2014, perhaps in anticipation of an imminent release. OR...
- Shit went down the toilet in March 2014. They had anticipated releasing a record, and had nothing to post about in lieu of that not happening.
- They amped up the news in Spring 2013 - perhaps in anticipation of a new album in...May/June?
- this chart suggests they're in super-secret mode now. OR...
- this chart tells us nothing
- overall fan engagement sucks
- U2 sucks
I went to U2.com and listed the date associated with every news story posted for a two year period, August 2012-2014, which I plotted in this chart.
The X-axis represents each month, while Y displays the number of stories posted within that month.
Why U2.com? Well I figured that anything posted here represents official wording from the band. And I thought we looked closely we might be able to see some interesting patterns/observations.
Interesting observations:
August 2012-2013 - they averaged 5 posts a month
August 2013-2014 - they averaged 4 posts a month, BUT, if look at March 2014 onward, it's closer to 2/month.
The last 3 months have seen the fewest posts of any three month window in the entire period.
Speculations/Conclusions:
- The were in super secret mode in March 2014, perhaps in anticipation of an imminent release. OR...
- Shit went down the toilet in March 2014. They had anticipated releasing a record, and had nothing to post about in lieu of that not happening.
- They amped up the news in Spring 2013 - perhaps in anticipation of a new album in...May/June?
- this chart suggests they're in super-secret mode now. OR...
- this chart tells us nothing
- overall fan engagement sucks
- U2 sucks