
Popular rock band U2 recently made a video and answered questions fans were asking via Facebook. One of the questions the band members read out loud was in regards to their album ‘Songs of Innocence’ being automatically downloaded to customer’s iTunes account. U2’s frontman Bono apologized about the matter, take a look at what he said:
Oops. Um. I'm sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea and we got carried away with ourselves.
Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.
Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.
Although there was a bit of backlash on Apple’s end, 26 million users downloaded ‘Songs of Innocence’ and 81 million “experienced” the album on iTunes Radio, Beats Music, and iTunes. Apple reportedly spent $100 million on a worldwide campaign to receive the download and partner with U2. See the whole Facebook session below and jump ahead to 2:22 to see the apology.
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