U2

Apple Music and U2 have collaborated on a virtual reality music video for the band's "Song for Someone”, which is now available for viewing through Vrse VR app available for iOS and other platforms, showing mixed scenes of U2 playing onstage with other musicians playing in their homes. According to AppleInsider, people who don't have a headset can...

U2 is on tour across Canada and the U.S. and at its concert last night at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, frontman Bono dedicated a song to Apple design chief Jony Ive (via Justin Luey). After pulling a fan on stage to “try something new”, the fan proceeds to take a selfie with...

U2 frontman Bono wrote an ‘A to Z of 2014’ roundup for his fans, and within his overview he praises Apple and iTunes for helping musicians get paid. He also comments on the debacle of how their free album Songs of Innocence was forcibly distributed to fans: Our album was to be like a bottle...

Looks like U2’s band leader Bono has apologized for the debacle known as their latest free album, Songs of Innocence, which was automatically downloaded to Apple customers who had iCloud enabled for music albums. In an interview on Facebook (via MacRumors), Bono says the band “got a carried away” with their grand idea: Oops. Um....

Looks like lots of people have downloaded U2’s Songs of Innocence—26 million in total—according to Apple. Whether how many of those were automatic or not, that is another story. Here’s what Billboard reports: Eddy Cue, Apple's senior VP of internet software and services, tells Billboard that U2's Songs of Innocence has racked up a staggering...

U2's Bono, who recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Dave Fanning on the Irish radio station 2FM, discussed a wide range of topics including 885 million iTunes accounts, a new music format and the criticism from “haters”, which was a result of Apple making U2's new album Songs of Innocence available for free to iTunes...

Did you listen to U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, which was given to users (albeit somewhat forcibly) by Apple for free last week? If you did, you are part of what the company is calling a record 33 million people who have ‘experienced’ the album, according to a statement given to Mashable: "Just six...

Apple and U2 announced a free giveaway of the band’s new album, Songs of Innocence at the recent iPhone 6 media event. The catch though? The album was pushed automatically to iTunes Accounts purchases and those with iCloud turned on saw it appear without them knowing, which caused quite the public backlash. Apple has now...

Apple’s surprise free U2 album giveaway in iTunes has topped two million free copies, according to what sources tell Re/code: iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” since Tuesday, according to people familiar with the album’s performance. The album is available exclusively on iTunes until the middle of October....

Earlier this week at the iPhone 6 / Apple Watch launch event, U2 performed live at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, followed by the surprise announcement of a free digital copy of the band’s upcoming album. Today, in an exclusive interview with Billboard, U2’s manager Guy Oseary has revealed that the band has even more...

Initial rumours of U2 playing a role in today’s Apple event were crushed, then revived at the last minute. Near the end of today’s event, the band had a surprise performance, followed up by the announcement 500 million iTunes users will get a free digital copy of the band’s upcoming album. Speaking with TIME, U2...

Earlier today at the iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch launch event, U2 performed live at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, followed by a surprise announcement of their brand new album "Songs of Innocence”, which is releasing today exclusively on iTunes, as a free download for every iTunes user. "We’re...