U2 discography

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This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by the Irish rock band U2.

Contents

[edit] Albums

[edit] Studio albums

Album cover Date of release Title and tracklising Chart positions Certification
October 20, 1980 Boy

1. I Will Follow 2. Twilight 3. An Cat Dubh 4. Into the Heart 5. Out of Control 6. Stories for Boys 7. The Ocean 8. A Day Without Me 9. Another Time, Another Place 10. The Electric Co. 11. Shadows and Tall Trees

#52 UK; #63 US (RIAA: Platinum)
October 16, 1981 October
1. Gloria, 2. I Fall Down, 3. I Threw a Brick Through a Window, 4. Rejoice, 5. Fire, 6. Tomorrow, 7. October, 8. With a Shout, 9. Stranger in a Strange Land, 10. Scarlet, 11. Is That All?
#11 UK; #104 US (RIAA: Platinum)
February 28, 1983 War
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday, 2. Seconds, 3. New Year's Day, 4. Like a Song, 5. Drowning Man, 6. The Refugee, 7. Two Hearts Beat as One, 8. Red Light, 9. Surrender, 10. "40"
#1 UK; #12 US, #2 SWE (RIAA: 4x Platinum)
October 1, 1984 The Unforgettable Fire
1. A Sort of Homecoming, A, 2. Pride (In the Name of Love), 3. Wire, 4. The Unforgettable Fire, 5.Promenade, 6. 4th of July, 7. Bad, 8. Indian Summer Sky, 9. Elvis Presley and America, 10.MLK
#1 UK; #12 US, #6 SWE (RIAA: 3x Platinum)
March 9, 1987 The Joshua Tree
1. Where the Streets Have No Name, 2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, 3. With or Without You, 4. Bullet the Blue Sky, 5. Running to Stand Still, 6. Red Hill Mining Town, 7. In God's Country, 8. Trip Through Your Wires, 9. One Tree Hill, 10. Exit, 11. Mothers of the Disappeared
#1 UK; #1 US, #1 SWE (RIAA: 10x Platinum)
October 10, 1988 Rattle and Hum
1. Helter Skelter (live), 2. Van Diemen's Land , 3. Desire. 4. Hawkmoon 269, 5. All Along the Watchtower (live), 6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (live), 7. Freedom for My People, 8. Silver and Gold (live), 9. Pride (In the Name of Love) (live), 10. Angel of Harlem, 11. Love Rescue Me, 12. When Love Comes to Town, 13. Heartland, 14. God Part II, 15. The Star-Spangled Banner, 16. Bullet the Blue Sky (live), 17. All I Want Is You
#1 UK; #1 US, #2 SWE (RIAA: 5x Platinum)
November 19, 1991 Achtung Baby
1. Zoo Station, 2. Even Better Than the Real Thing, 3. One, 4. Until the End of the World, 5. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, 6. So Cruel, 7. The Fly, 8. Mysterious Ways, 9. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World, 10. Ultra Violet (Light My Way), 11. Acrobat, 12. Love Is Blindness
#2 UK; #1 US, #3 SWE (RIAA: 8x Platinum)
July 1993 Zooropa
1. Zooropa, 2. Babyface, 3. Numb, 4. Lemon, 5. Stay (Faraway, So Close!), 6. Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car, 7. Some Days Are Better Than Others, 8. The First Time, 9. Dirty Day, 10. The Wanderer
#1 UK; #1 US, #1 SWE (RIAA: 3x Platinum)
November 1995 Original Soundtracks 1
(a side project with Brian Eno, as "Passengers")
1. United Colours, 2. Slug, 3. Your Blue Room, 4. Always Forever Now, 5. A Different Kind of Blue, 6. Beach Sequence, 7. Miss Sarajevo, 8. Ito Okashi, 9. One Minute Warning, 10. Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long), 11. Elvis Ate America, 12. Plot 180, 13. Theme from The Swan, 14. Theme from Let's Go Native, 15. Bottoms (Watashitachi No Ookina Yume) (bonus track)
#12 UK; #76 US
March 1997 Pop
1. Discothèque, 2. Do You Feel Loved, 3. Mofo, 4. If God Will Send His Angels, 5. Staring at the Sun, 6. Last Night on Earth, 7. Gone, 8. Miami, 9. The Playboy Mansion, 10. If You Wear That Velvet Dress, 11. Please, 12. Wake Up Dead Man
#1 UK; #1 US; #1 SWE (RIAA: Platinum)
October 30, 2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind
1. Beautiful Day, 2. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, 3. Elevation, 4. Walk On, 5. Kite, 6. In a Little While, 7. Wild Honey, 8. Peace On Earth, 9. When I Look at the World, 10. New York, 11. Grace
#1 UK; #3 US; #1 IRE, #1 SWE (RIAA: 4x Platinum)
November 19, 2004 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

1. Vertigo, 2. Miracle Drug, 3. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own, 4. Love and Peace or Else, 5. City of Blinding Lights, 6. All Because of You, 7. A Man and a Woman, 8. Crumbs from Your Table, 9. One Step Closer, 10. Original of the Species, 11. Yahweh

#1 UK; #1 US; #1 SWE; #1 AUS; #1 IRE (RIAA: 3x Platinum)

[edit] Live albums

[edit] Soundtracks

[edit] Compilations

[edit] Box sets

[edit] Singles

[edit] EPs

[edit] Singles

All regularly released singles and their chart positions in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (U.S.), United Kingdom Singles Chart (UK), Ireland (IR), Canada (CA), Sweden (SWE), the Netherlands (NL) and Australia (AUS).

Year Title Album U.S. UK IR CA SWE NL AUS
1980 "Another Day" 1 Non-album single - - - - - - -
1980 "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" Non-album single - - - - - - -
1980 "A Day Without Me" Boy - - - - - - -
1980 "I Will Follow" Boy - - - - - - -
1981 "Fire" October - 35 4 - - - -
1981 "Gloria" October - 55 10 - - - -
1982 "A Celebration" Non-album single - 47 15 - - - -
1983 "New Year's Day" War 53 10 2 - 17 11 -
1983 "Two Hearts Beat as One" War 101 18 2 - - - -
1983 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 2 War - - - - - 3 -
1984 "I Will Follow (Live)" 3 Under a Blood Red Sky 81 - - - - - -
1984 "Pride (In the Name of Love)" The Unforgettable Fire 33 3 2 33 12 8 -
1985 "The Unforgettable Fire" The Unforgettable Fire - 6 1 - - 8 -
1987 "With or Without You" The Joshua Tree 1 4 1 1 13 2 -
1987 "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" The Joshua Tree 1 6 1 11 11 6 -
1987 "Where the Streets Have No Name" The Joshua Tree 13 4 1 14 - 10 -
1987 "In God's Country" 4 The Joshua Tree 44 48 - 28 - - -
1988 "One Tree Hill" 5 The Joshua Tree - - - - - - -
1988 "Desire" Rattle and Hum 3 1 1 3 5 2 1
1988 "Angel of Harlem" Rattle and Hum 14 9 3 15 - 18 18
1989 "When Love Comes to Town" (with B.B. King) Rattle and Hum 68 6 1 - 20 9 23
1989 "All I Want Is You" Rattle and Hum 83 4 3 - - 12 2
1991 "The Fly" Achtung Baby 61 1 3 3 2 4 1
1991 "Mysterious Ways" Achtung Baby 9 13 1 4 17 8 3
1992 "One" Achtung Baby 10 7 1 3 - 11 4
1992 "Even Better Than the Real Thing" Achtung Baby 32 12 3 - 10 8 11
1992 "Even Better Than the Real Thing (Remixes)" Achtung Baby - 8 10 - - - -
1992 "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" Achtung Baby 35 14 4 - 19 13 9
1993 "Numb" (video single) Zooropa - - - - - - 7
1993 "Lemon" Zooropa - - - - - - 6
1993 "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Zooropa 61 4 1 5 13 10 5
1995 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" Batman Forever soundtrack 16 2 1 11 2 9 1
1995 "Miss Sarajevo"6 Original Soundtracks 1 - 6 - - - 5 7
1997 "Discothèque" Pop 10 1 1 1 2 9 3
1997 "Staring at the Sun" Pop 26 3 4 2 26 22 23
1997 "Last Night on Earth" Pop 57 10 11 4 43 17 32
1997 "Please" Pop 103 7 6 10 33 11 21
1997 "If God Will Send His Angels" Pop - 12 11 26 56 30 -
1997 "Mofo (remixes)" Pop - - - - - - 35
1998 "Sweetest Thing" The Best of 1980-1990 63 3 1 1 6 9 6
2000 "Beautiful Day" All That You Can't Leave Behind 21 1 1 1 7 1 1
2001 "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" All That You Can't Leave Behind 52 2 1 1 23 7 3
2001 "Elevation" All That You Can't Leave Behind 116 3 1 1 33 1 6
2001 "Walk On" All That You Can't Leave Behind 118 5 7 1 55 10 9
2002 "Electrical Storm" The Best of 1990-2000 77 5 2 1 13 4 5
2004 "Vertigo" How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 31 1 1 2 2 2 5
2005 "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 97 1 3 1 24 4 19
2005 "All Because of You" How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 101 4 - 1 37 - -
2005 "City of Blinding Lights" How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - 2 8 2 8 3 31
2005 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (with Paul McCartney) Digital single 48 - - - - - -
2005 "All Because of You" 7 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - 4 4 - 37 6 23
2006 "Original of the Species" 8 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - - - - - 15 -
2006 "One" (with Mary J. Blige) The Breakthrough 86 2 - - 27 2 -
2006 "The Saints are Coming" (with Green Day) U218 Singles 51 2 1 1 4 1 1
2007 "Window in the Skies" U218 Singles - 4 6 1 38 1 17

[edit] Additional singles

[edit] Notes

  1. "Another Day" was released only in Ireland as a 7" vinyl single.
  2. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was released only in the Netherlands and Germany.
  3. "I Will Follow" (Live) was released only in the United States.
  4. "In God's Country" was released only in North America.
  5. "One Tree Hill" was released only in New Zealand and Australia.
  6. "Miss Sarajevo" is credited to Passengers (Brian Eno, Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) and features Luciano Pavarotti.
  7. "All Because of You" was originally released in Canada, but was later released in Europe, Australia and Japan.
  8. "Original of the Species" was released only in the UK iTunes store.

[edit] Videos

[edit] Music videos

This is a comprehensive listing of official video releases by the Irish rock band U2. Having more than 79 videos, this is a list of U2 official releases among all their career.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

  • U2 Wanderer - Comprehensive information on each official release (and some unofficial ones). Includes catalogue information, cover scans, lyrics, and more.


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