beLIEve

Just saw this on @U2.com. Looks like the Boots remix will be released after all. Curious about track #4 on the last single shown. If Mercy is never going to make any U2 album, I really wish they'd place it right there on a 4-track Magnificent single/EP. I would buy that in a minute. Overall, though, assuming there is no great surprise for the 4th track, I'm kinda disappointed with the tracklistings. No info on what might be available for downloading, either. Since the live tracks are from Boston, I assume that this CD single will actually be released in the U.S., but I'm just not sure there is a big enough market here to really make a difference on the charts. In the U.S., anyway, it looks to me like Magnificent will have to make it on BB's Hot 100 based on airplay only.

7" single (UK only)
Side A: Magnificent (UK Edit)
Side B: Breathe (Live from Sommerville Theatre, Boston)

2-track CD:
1. Magnificent (Edit)
2. Breathe (Live from Somerville Theatre, Boston)

3-track CD:
1. Magnificent (Edit)
2. Vertigo (Live from Somerville Theatre, Boston)
3. Get On Your Boots (Justice Remix)
4. TBD

Aygo

^ And U2 seems to keep on enjoying the path or boring and (most of the times) uninteresting b-sides, filling the fans with live performances and (once again, most of the times) poor quality remixes.

BEAL

Agree.

Only hope is that there is maybe a new album coming out, and they're holding material for it.

Of course, we always think this, and turns out to be false.

Pretty disappointing track list.

Just don't get U2 sometimes. They want to be relevant, but they're methods on singles and single releases seems to be very lackluster. I prefer they're not in the public eye ALL THE TIME, but come on. Promote these songs!!!

doctorwho

I agree (agreeing with BEAL?? - the world has ended as we know it).

Plus, supposedly there is a remix of "Magnificent" already out there by a DJ who's playing it on his tour. Why not add that?

I don't mind remixes, but make them timely. "Mysterious Ways" and "Even Better Than..." had tons of remixes, as did "Discotheque" - and all were released along with the song! Now, we have to wait, sometimes for a follow-up album, before a remix of a previous single is available.

And where is some new material? We had an alternative version of NLOTH, and that's it! The new material is really lacking.

It seems that since the CD single era is basically over, U2 aren't going to throw in something special (as they did for singles in years gone by). However, if they did some "2 for 1" special, where fans could get a brand new song if they download "Magnificent", I'd be they'd get a bigger hit! I'd download it for the extra song.

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Danny Boy

As someone already stated, perhaps they still haven't decided what tracks to put on "Songs of Ascent" and they don't want to waste any potential album tracks as b-sides.

However, talk of a second album has really died down, and I'm really starting to think it was just the usual Bono album-release bluster.

The tracklisting of the GOYB CD single kept changing right up until the last minute, so maybe we will get something different before it's all said and done.

cjboog

Weekly Radio & Records numbers for Magnificent are in. The numbers are slightly different from Mediabase, someone who knows more than me is going to have to explain the difference between the two...

Triple A
Holds at #2
573 plays (+0)

Rock
Up to #13 from 20
138 plays (+30)

Alternative
Up to #18 from 19
787 plays (+46)

Hot AC
Up to #31 from 34
508 plays (+76)

2,006 plays this week on those formats with an increase of +152 from last week.

doctorwho

But there are still tracks. "Winter" for example could have been issued. It's already out on the "Linear" movie - so why not make it an official release? And, dare I say it, "Mercy"? And I'm sure there's tons of other tracks, even covers, that qualify. Part of the fun of a b-side is just something new and different, that the artist enjoys, but knows wouldn't flow with an album or be a-side material. With the supposed 40-60 or more songs U2 kept saying they have, to have one new song - and that simply being an alternative mix of an album track - is a bit weak.

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I believe they will have to release another album if they hope to sell-out stadium shows next year...and they know this. I don't think they can fill stadiums next year off of NLOTH only...unless this stadium production is more than we imagine it to be and the sheer spectacle of it will make us want to buy tickets next year too (BTW...I'd buy tickets even if they hadn't released NLOTH...I need my U2 "LIVE" fix every few years).

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cjboog

They're already selling out stadiums...

bram

With all the shitty remixes U2 has inflicted on us over the years, they finally decide to stop with Magnificent? If ever there was a U2 song that could have some mind-blowing remixes, it's this one. Maybe they'll be on the 3rd single? There should at least be a Will.i.am mix and I'd love to see JUSTICE have another go.

.:MrMacPhisto:.

Well, at least Justice's GOYB remix will be officially released.

macawaca

I have to agree, I collect all the physical singles, and the track record over the last few albums has been pretty poor in my opinion. I don't mind if there is one quality remix on a cd single, but it needs at least one bit of new material. We know they might not be finished polished songs these "demos", but unlike in boots, "we do get it boys". Come on. And while the live tracks are good and all that, most of us already have the bloody things these days before they come out on a single.

phommel

I don't understand the strategy. Last week of March Magnificient was megahit on the biggest Dutch radio channel which means they play teh song every hour. That was great. now it is waiting till May for the official single release!!! Why? The song will be dead by then. and then probably some more weeks before the video is there....? I don't ge it. Bring it out! Promote it!

Irishteen

The song is on itunes already were 99% of sales will be, if it's gonna be a hit it won't matter when the physical release is

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Irishteen

Magnificent's downloads have again dropped in the US, it's down to U2's third most downloaded tracks after Beautiful Day and Vertigo. It's also only selling marginally better than the other songs on NLOTH. Nearly every track on NLOTH is selling about half what Beautiful Day does, with Magnificent selling about 70% of what Beautiful Day is

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