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U2 lead Q1's great expectations.
Superstar acts to deliver new albums in early 2009
By Stuart Clarke
New albums by U2, Green Day and Morrissey are predicted to lift high- street spirits in the coming months as all three superstar acts deliver new material in quarter one. U2's album, No Line On The Horizon, is now scheduled for a March 2 release date after it was pushed back from the fourth quarter last year.
The release will mark the band's 12th studio album and as the follow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - an album that won eight Grammy awards and has sold over 9m copies around the world - it has already fuelled high expectations at retail.
The anticipation is further heightened because the delayed release date means No Line... will mark the longest period between successive albums during the band's career.
But Green Day will provide fierce competition. The US band who, if they continue the career trajectory set in motion by their past studio albums, are expected to deliver one of the big global albums for 2009.
The as-yet-untitled follow-up to American Idiot - which has sold over 15m copies worldwide - does not have a firm release date; however it is unlikely to fall beyond the first quarter. The album has been produced by Butch Vig of Garbage and has been recorded in the same studio the band recorded the album's Grammy-winning predecessor.
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