LOS ANGELES (RushPRnews) 02/18/09-It was bound to happen. The last few weeks before a big name release, so many things can go wrong between the studio and the store. Through subterfuge, malice, over-excitement, negligence or accident, the digital files that make up an album will somehow escape. With “No Line on the Horizon,†it was just a matter of time before the machine cracked.
I’m told that “No Line†first appeared online about a week ago at the Napster Mobile site, but since few people know that this site exists, nothing much happen.
Then at about 4am ET today, an Australian site called Getmusic somehow put the album up for sale. Was that intentional or an accident? It doesn’t matter. Fans found it and now the entire finished album is spreading across the universe at the speed of light. . . . . .
Apparently, there was a leak through an Australian online music store called Get Music at around 4am ET today.
For a brief time, they apparently made the album available for sale. Whether it was a human or software error is now irrelevant. I’ve got twelve fresh U2 songs playing in iTunes right now.
The mix sounds finished and the running order is exactly what we’ve been told it would be.
Let’s go through the album . . . .