U2 make history

Bono and the Boys have officially scored their eighth No.1 Billboard album with "Songs of Experience", which pushed 186,000 album sales during its first week out, 180,000 of which were from traditional album sales.

Here's another honor... Both sales totals mark the highest single-week sales numbers for an album by any rock artist in 2017. A portion of the sales numbers for "Songs of Experience" were included in a promotion that bundled the record with tickets for U2's 2018 Experience + Innocence World Tour.