Music is secondary to celebrities U2

U2 postpone new album” “U2 album still planned for this year.” “U2 deny album is being pushed back.” ”U2 rep denies album delay.”

For someone so vocal, nauseatingly so, Bono has stayed relatively quiet on all the rumours about what would be U2’s 13th album. There is no date set for release and no title floating around, with just the claims of an unknown “U2 rep” keeping newspapers and music papers (un)informed.

All the headlines listed above, despite their clickbait inhibitions, point to the fact that people still want to know about U2. There have been a couple of new songs in recent months: ‘Ordinary Love’ featured on the Mandela OST and ‘Invisible’ was debuted during a Super Bowl advert. It was instantly made available for free download for 24 hours on iTunes, with Bank of America donating $1 to Bono’s (RED) charity for each download. But that was at the start of February; two months later and ‘Invisible’ has only clocked up about 3.5m plays on YouTube.