Mac_Fly
War Child
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Although embarrassing, on the surface it does look like a new tour for a new album, NLOTH beat out a retro nostalgia tour for U2's most popular album. But momentum from the previous Vertigo Tour and HTDAAB album probably impacted 360s results as well.
Most assuredly.
What U2 discovered after the POPMART disaster is that they couldn't release an album that wasn't a monster hit and still sell out stadiums like the Stones.
So . . release a Best Of 80's to reconnect fans, release a classic like ATYCLB and go back to arenas to build the fan base, cut a monster like Vertigo, do the arenas again and presto -- this time you can release a flop like NLOTH and still have the biggest selling tour of all time.
They seemed poised to try that again, with the JT30 tour, that is, recharge the fan base and then release a new album while going back to arenas. But for reasons already mentioned it won't quite work that way this time around.
Without a monster album they won' be able to have a monster tour again.
I think a AB30 is highly unlikely.