Raised By Wolves
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What's the point? It won't get radio play,everyone on earth was given the album...unless they release a standalone 45 it would be meaningless to release a single.
All they'd be doing would be saying to the irrelevant institution of corporate radio " here's a song you've had access to for over a year and had no interest in playing because you already have 3 of our songs in the permanent rotation of your strict, stagnant continent-striding empire."
U2 should abandon singles. They'll never have another hit single. Just release albums and EPs.
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Absolutely. For vintage acts like U2, releasing singles is really an exercise in futility. The days when U2 could release three or four singles from the same album and reasonably expect them all to do well are long, long gone.
The Troubles.
As an EP with live versions of Sunday Bloody Sunday->Raised By Wolves
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It would be cool if they released a real single, a non-album track and b-side on 45 and digital just for the hell of it. It's not uncommon. It would be good for them to do so they can still release good songs that don't fit SOE. They could put out stranger, less commercial stuff that way because it would be lower profile.
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Otherwise the public will end up thinking "well, they used to be good, but they've had a string of duds, there's little chance this will be any different, why should we bother?"
I'd be worried that the more I put out unpopular stuff, the less people would pay attention, because they'd come to expect sub-par material/ no longer expect something 'big' and great the way the past hits were.