Artist Countdown: U2 Top 50 Hits 6pm ET @U2_Official @RadioMax #ac

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion). U2’s early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music. Throughout the group’s musical pursuits, they have maintained a sound built on melodic instrumentals, highlighted by The Edge’s timbrally varied guitar sounds and Bono’s expressive vocals. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes and sociopolitical concerns.

U2 formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, they became a top international act. They were more successful as a touring act than they were at selling records, until their breakthrough 1987 album The Joshua Tree, which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the band’s stature “from heroes to superstars”. Reacting to musical stagnation and criticism of their earnest image and musical direction in the late-1980s, the group reinvented themselves with their 1991 hit album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour; U2 integrated dance, industrial, and alternative rock influences into their sound, and embraced a more ironic and self-deprecating image. Similar experimentation continued for the remainder of the 1990s with varying levels of success. U2 regained critical and commercial favour in the 2000s with the records All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), which established a more conventional, mainstream sound for the group. Their U2 360° Tour from 2009–2011 was the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history.

U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the all-time best-selling music artists, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and in 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 in its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” and has labelled them the “Biggest Band in the World”. Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, and The Edge’s Music Rising.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	The Fly
2	Vertigo
3	Desire
4	The Saints Are Coming (with Green Day)
5	Beautiful Day
6	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
7	Discothèque
8	With or Without You
9	Electrical Storm
10	Sweetest Thing
11	I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
12	Mysterious Ways
13	Elevation
14	Pride (In the Name of Love)
15	One
16	Stuck in a Moment
17	Miss Sarajevo
18	Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
19	Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
20	Get On Your Boots
21	Even Better Than the Real Thing
22	Staring at the Sun
23	Angel of Harlem
24	Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own
25	Walk On
26	Window in the Skies
27	All Because of You
28	Take Me to the Clouds Above (as LMC vs. U2)
29	New Year’s Day
30	When Love Comes to Town (with B.B. King)
31	Please
32	Where the Streets Have No Name
33	Last Night on Earth
34	One (with Mary J. Blige)
35	All I Want Is You
36	Magnificent
37	City of Blinding Lights
38	Original of the Species
39	I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
40	If God Will Send His Angels
41	The Unforgettable Fire
42	Lemon
43	Two Hearts Beat as One
44	Numb
45	Gloria
46	Sunday Bloody Sunday
47	In God’s Country
48	Everlasting Love
49	I Will Follow
50	A Celebration