{"id":30307,"date":"2024-09-09T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-9-2014-u2-gave-away-their-new-album-songs-of-innocence-to-itune-users\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:02:36","slug":"on-this-day-sept-9-2014-u2-gave-away-their-new-album-songs-of-innocence-to-itune-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-9-2014-u2-gave-away-their-new-album-songs-of-innocence-to-itune-users\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 9, 2014: U2 gave away their new album, &#8216;Songs of Innocence&#8217;, to iTune users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-09\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 9, 2014 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2<\/strong> gave away their new album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Songs of Innocence<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, with the record automatically appearing in the music libraries of some 500 million iTunes users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album, the 13th studio release from the Irish rockers, included the lead single &#8220;The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)&#8221; which was featured in a TV ad for Apple. Other singles included \u201cEvery Breaking Wave\u201d and \u201cSong for Someone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But not everyone wanted <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Songs of Innocence<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. In fact, angry Apple customers compared the unwanted album to \u201cspam\u201d or \u201cjunk mail,\u201d and Apple was forced to create a way for users to delete it from their accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bono<\/strong> later apologized, taking &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for the stunt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 9, 2014 &#8230; U2 gave away their new album Songs of Innocence, with the record automatically appearing in the music libraries of some 500 million iTunes users. The album, the 13th studio release from the Irish rockers, included the lead single &#8220;The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)&#8221;<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-9-2014-u2-gave-away-their-new-album-songs-of-innocence-to-itune-users\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/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\/30307"}],"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=30307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}