{"id":29365,"date":"2024-04-25T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-25-1987-u2s-the-joshua-tree-hit-number-one\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:02:51","slug":"on-this-day-april-25-1987-u2s-the-joshua-tree-hit-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-25-1987-u2s-the-joshua-tree-hit-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 25, 1987: U2\u2019s ‘The Joshua Tree’ hit number one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, April 25, 1987…<\/span><\/p>\n

Three weeks after its release,\u00a0U2<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>The Joshua Tree\u00a0<\/span><\/em>hit number one on the\u00a0<\/span>Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em>200 album chart.<\/span><\/p>\n

The album, the band\u2019s fifth studio release, was U2\u2019s first U.S. chart-topper, and it remained at number one for nine weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The record included future U2 classics \u201cWith or Without You\u201d and \u201cI Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For,\u201d which remain U2\u2019s only number-one singles in the U.S., as well as \u201cWhere the Streets Have No Name.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Irish rockers went on to have seven more number one albums: 1988’s\u00a0<\/span>Rattle and Hum<\/span><\/em>, 1991’s\u00a0<\/span>Achtung\u00a0Baby<\/span><\/em>, 1993’s\u00a0<\/span>Zooropa<\/span><\/em>, 1997’s\u00a0<\/span>Pop<\/span><\/em>, 2004’s\u00a0<\/span>How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb<\/span><\/em>, 2009’s\u00a0<\/span>No Line on the Horizon<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and 2017’s\u00a0<\/span>Songs of Experience.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

U2 celebrated the 30th anniversary of <\/span>The Joshua Tree<\/span><\/em> with tours in 2017 and 2019,\u00a0during which\u00a0they played the album in its entirety.\u00a0The tour\u00a0hit North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, April 25, 1987… Three weeks after its release,\u00a0U2\u2019s\u00a0The Joshua Tree\u00a0hit number one on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200 album chart. The album, the band\u2019s fifth studio release, was U2\u2019s first U.S. chart-topper, and it remained at number one for nine weeks. The record included future U2 classics \u201cWith or Without You\u201dRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}