U2’s latest album titled U218 Singles was released on 17 November 2006. The album contains singles recorded all the way from 1982 to 2006. To be exact, the album contains eighteen songs altogether—sixteen of their most well-known and successful singles, as well as “The Saints Are Coming” (in collaboration with Green Day) and a new song, “Window in the Skies.” By its 8th week of release, the album had sold 2,803,000 copies around the world, and on December 9, 2006 debuted on the Billboard 200album chart with sales of 134,000 copies.

To record the follow-up to 2004’s “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” The Irish rockers have spent the last few months in an African studio, Bono believes that fans will be surprised by the result. U2’s teamwork with well-known producer Brian Eno has given a new album unlike anything U2 have done before and probably, it doesn’t sound like anything anyone else has done either.

U2’s new record will be influenced by the trance dance sub-genre of music. According to the band’s frontman, it will also feature “hardcore” guitars. U2 fans can expect a “dance floor shock” on the new record. The album contains some trance influences. There is “some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge”. Bono said the new album is not like anything they had ever done before. The band does not think the album sounds like “anything anyone else has done either.”

Bono has claimed that the band’s new album is going to be “extraordinary” and absolutely different from what it used to be before. The new album has been inspired by the band’s visit to Morocco last year. At that time, Morocco saw a religious music festival in Fez, and exactly this festival helped U2 to work out new extraordinary tunes.

The fifth studio album recorded by U2 and released on March 9, 1987, is titled “Joshua Tree”. The album was produced and engineered by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Having tremendous success, the album is considered to be their opus, which has often been praised by music critics as the band’s best album and one of the best rock albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 1988, the Joshua Tree won the Album of the Year.