39 Australians Paid For The U2 Album Download Last Week
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U2 and Apple

39 Australians Paid For The U2 Album Download Last Week

by Paul Cashmere on October 20, 2014

in New Music,News

39 people in Australia actually paid to download the U2 album ‘Songs Of Innocence’ last week.

U2 ‘Songs of Innocence’ was the album at the centre of controversy last month after U2 and Apple spammed 500 million iTunes users with the album whether they wanted it or not.

The album was free for one month to anyone worldwide and then went on general sale last week.

As expected nearly all of the sales were for the physical CD but 39 people bought the download.

The U2 ‘Songs of Innocence’ album sold 2860 copies in Australia including the 39 downloads and debuted at no 7 on the ARIA album chart.

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