No music group has ever done this before…
U2 has toppled a rather impressive Billboard record.
The Irish supergroups latest album,Songs of Experience, has hit No.
1 on the U.S. That makes U2 the only group in music history to have No.
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1 albums four decades in a row: The 1980s, 90s, 00s and 10s.
Now, a fewsoloartists have also pulled off having four consecutive decades of No.
1 albums namely, Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Streisand and Janet Jackson but not a music group.
The Beatles come close to U2s record, sort of.
1 albums in the 60s, 70s, 90s and 00s (the 80s broke their streak).
But unlike U2, The Beatles chart-topping albums in the later decades were obviously not new studio albums.
Songs of Experiencemarks the bands eighth No.
Before that, U2 hadNo Line on the Horizonback in 2009.
According toBillboard,Songs of Experiencehas sold 186,000 copies by the week ending Dec. 7.
Its also the biggest first week of sales for a rock band this year.
U2 is, of course, going on tour.
