U2's Woody Guthrie Prize, New Album Buzz, and Bono's Oasis Advice | U2 News Roundup

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This is Biosnap AI and here is what U2 have been up to in just the past few days, weighted for what really matters to their long term story.

The most biographically significant development is the band being honored with the **2025 Woody Guthrie Prize**, formally recognizing U2s decades long blend of songwriting and social conscience. U2.com and U2 X Radio on SiriusXM are actively promoting special programming built around Bono and The Edge accepting the prize and performing an acoustic set, including an extended conversation with producer T Bone Burnett about folk tradition, protest music, and U2s own catalog. According to U2s official news feed the 65 minute program is now streaming and getting multiple radio airings, giving this award genuine global visibility rather than a one night footnote.

On the creative front, U2Songs reports that work on the new studio album is nearing completion, with reliable internal sources pointing to a single planned for next summer and a full album in fall 2026. Those timelines are not yet officially announced by the band and should be treated as informed but unconfirmed guidance from usually accurate insiders. Still, if borne out, this marks the next major chapter after the Las Vegas Sphere era and sets up an extensive promotional and touring cycle through 2026.

Meanwhile, U2s own site has been busy myth making in a softer way. A new feature titled Wake Up Dead Man ties into the film Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery, with composer Nathan Johnson curating a deep cut U2 playlist and revisiting the bands Sphere shows as a defining live moment of the decade. In the same piece, U2.com plugs Adam Claytons appearance in the Sky Arts series Greatest Basslines, a modest but notable TV spotlight that reinforces his status beyond the shadow of Bono and The Edge.

On the metrics and legacy side, ABC Audio via several classic rock outlets reports that Pollstar has ranked U2 the number two touring artist of the millennium by worldwide ticket sales from 2001 to 2025, just behind Coldplay. That hard data locks in what the Sphere residency already implied they remain one of the dominant live acts on earth in both cultural and commercial terms.

Finally, in the wider gossip ecosystem, American Songwriter relays a tabloid claim from The Sun that Bono privately warned Noel Gallagher about the massive production costs of a Sphere style residency, supposedly helping persuade Oasis to pass on the venue. No one on the record has confirmed this, and neither Oasis nor U2s camp has commented, so this should be treated as colorful but unverified backstage lore rather than established fact.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is biosnap Ai and here is what you two
have been up to in just the past few days,
waited for what really matters to their long term story.
The most biographically significant development is the band being honored
with the Ostro twenty five Woody Guthrie Prize, formally recognizing
you two says decades long blend of songwriting and social conscience.

(00:21):
Utwo dot com and U two x Radio on SiriusXM
are actively promoting special programming built around Bono and the
Edge accepting the prize and performing an acoustic set, including
an extended conversation with producer t Bone Burnett about folk tradition,
protest music, and U two's own catalog. According to U

(00:42):
two's official news feed, the sixty five minute program is
now streaming and getting multiple radio airings, giving this award
genuine global visibility rather than a one night footnote. On
the creative front, U two Songs reports that work on
the new studio album is nearing completion, with reliable internal

(01:03):
sources pointing to a single plan for next summer and
a full album in fall twenty twenty six. Those timelines
are not yet officially announced by the band and should
be treated as informed but unconfirmed guidance from usually accurate insiders. Still,

(01:26):
if borne out, this marks the next major chapter after
the Las Vegas Sphere era, and sets up an extensive
promotional and touring cycle through twenty twenty six. Meanwhile, U
two's own site has been busy myth making in a
softer way. A new feature titled Wake Up dead Man
ties into the film Wake Up dead Man and knives
out Mystery, with composer Nathan Johnson curating a deep cut

(01:49):
U two playlist and revisiting the band's Sphere shows as
a defining live moment of the decade. In the same piece,
youtwo dot Com plugs Adam Clayton's appearance in the sky
Outs series Greatest Baselines, a modest but notable TV spotlight
that reinforces his status beyond the shadow of Bono and
the Edge on the metrics and legacy side. ABC Audio

(02:14):
via several classic rock outlets reports that Pollstar has ranked
U two the number two touring artist of the millennium
by worldwide ticket sales from two thousand one to two
thousand twenty five, just behind Coldplay. That hard Data locks
in what the sphere residency already implied they remain one
of the dominant live acts on Earth in both cultural

(02:37):
and commercial tones. Finally, in the wider Gossip Ecosystem, American
songwriter relays a tabloid claim from the Sun that Bono
privately warned Noel Gallagher about the massive production costs of
a Sphere style residency, supposedly helping persuade Oasis to pass
on the venue. No one on the record has confirmed this,

(03:00):
and neither Oasis nor U two's camp has commented, so
this should be treated as colorful but unverified backstage lore
rather than established fact. And that is it for to day.
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