U2 lands 13th ‘Billboard’ top 10 album with ‘Songs of Surrender’

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U2 has another top 10 hit. The band’s latest release, Songs of Surrender, debuts at five on the Billboard 200 Albums chart this week. The Irish rockers moved 46,500 equivalent album units of Songs of Surrender to land their 13th top 10 record.  

With the new chart placement, U2 is now the fourth group to chart a top 10 album in each decade from the 1980s to the 2020s. The others are AC/DCDef Leppard and Metallica.

As previously reported, Songs of Surrender, which has U2 rerecording and reimagining 40 of their classic hits,  has already topped the U.K. Official Albums chart, making it their 11th U.K. number one.

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