Do you have to ask who one of the Top Touring Artist of the Decade? U2 walks away from the Billboard magazine list recapping their chart tracking for both 2009 and the entire decade. Coming in at #2 with nearly a billion dollars in gross revenue from touring - ($844,157,925) The Stones take top honors by only 25M.
Billboard tracks and ranks everything to do with music, here are couple of positions for the boys. Noticeably, streets seems to not be ranked.
U2
- #1 Touring Artist of 2009
- #2 Touring Artist of the decade
- #19 in 2009 “The Billboard 200 Artists” (whatever that means; they were not in “Hot 100 Artists” nor in “Top Artists”)
- #9 in 2009 Digital Album Artist of 2009
- #87 in Artists of the Decade (but not in “Hot 100 Artists” of the decade)
- #44 on “The Billboard 200 Artists” of the decade
- #25 Top Rock Song Artist of the decade
All That You Can’t Leave Behind
#68 on “The Billboard 200 Albums” of the decade
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
#124 on “The Billboard 200 Albums” of the decade
No Line On The Horizon
- #18 The Billboard 200 Albums of 2009
- #5 Top Rock Albums of 2009
- #12 Top Digital Albums of 2009
- #25 Top Digital Albums of the decade
- #4 Top Alternative Albums of 2009
- #5 Top European Albums of 2009
- #18 Top Canadian Albums of 2009
The Best of 1980-1990
#41 Top Catalog Albums of the decade
“Beautiful Day”
#90 Top Rock Songs of the decade
“Magnificent”
#96 European Hot 100 Singles of 2009
“Get On Your Boots”
#99 European Hot 100 Singles of 2009