Shout out to the Top U2 Countries
Props to all countries with U2 in the Top 10 (with a few exceptions for exceptional performance), which is all BB tracks...straight from Billboard or Country Chart and updated for this week's issue.
Argentina...HTDAAB is at #10 on the Billboard Album Chart
Denmark...Sometimes is at #4 on the BB Singles Chart
Belgium...HTDAAB is at #8 on the Top 10 Album Chart
Spain...Sometimes is at #5 on the Singles Chart
Portugal...Sometimes is at #1 on the Singles Chart!
Netherlands...HTDAAB is at #8 on the Album Chart
From Charts all over the World:
Lithuania...Sometimes is at #9 on Singles Chart
Croatia...Sometimes is at #4 on Singles Chart
Yugoslavia...Sometimes is at #11 on Singles Chart
Ukraine...Sometimes is at #12 on Singles Chart w/bullet
Albania...Sometimes is at #2 on Singles Chart
Cyprus...HTDAAB is at #2 on Album Chart
Costa Rica...Vertigo at #4 on Singles Chart
Singapore...Vertigo 13, Sometimes 30 on Singles Chart
South Africa...Sometimes is at 10 on Singles Chart
WOW. U2 by far has the biggest international audience of any rock band. If I had included the "Top 30", I would have listed at least 40 countries if not more. At #10 on the Planet, Sometimes is a bonafide Global hit and the 2nd song from Atomic to make it into the Top 10 in the World! And, it may not be done yet!
Worst taste in Music goes to....South Korea, which has 27 Britney Spears songs in their Top 100 Singles Chart. My favorite is "I'm a Slave 4 U - Thunderpuss mix". Hell, even the Backstreet Boys charted at 95 with "Shape of My Heart". What kind of radio station plays Britney's entire song collection!!! Even worse, on 6 different "Rock" charts, no U2 songs were to be found. Strangely, John Lennon was sandwiched in between two John Denver songs.