With millions sold, can U2’s ’PopMart’ be a flop? By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff

Is U2’s "PopMart" tour the Hindenberg of the summer rock season?

Entertainment Weekly, the layman’s pop-culture/industry bible, certainly thinks so. In the current issue, cartoonist Barry Blitt has U2’s "PopMart" topping his "Obit" List, beating out the Macarena and Soundgarden. In Boston, the last stop on the band’s North American tour, U2 played two shows to more than 100,000 people – but three shows were projected. In Los Angeles, Bono and the boys took to KROQ-FM for five hours to sell the concert. This week, Billboard’s sister publication, Amusement Business, printed sales figures for eight dates, including three at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. The tally: 308,741 tickets sold of a possible 355,444, or about 87 percent. This is failure?

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From Business Wire:

U2 PopMart Webcast gives visitors control of concert camerasTCG CERFnet, MRD New Media Entertainment deliver vital link.

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Source : YouTwo.net

As reported by a fellow fan:

"Reading an interview with Matt Groening today (UK "night and day" Sundaymagazine), the script for the 200th Simpsons episode includes U2 playing agig in Springfield. Apparently some gentle ribbing is planned too – at onepoint Bono launches into an eco-rant while Edge and Larry look skywards andslope off for a pint. Sounds pretty realistic to me ."

Source : YouTwo.net

As reported previously, U2 will make an appearance on the Simpsons 200th episode.

The basic plot is this: Homer runs for the office of Sanitation Commissioner,with the help of the band.

As was reported previously, one scene is where Bono starts on an eco-rant, Larry, Edge and Homer sneak off to Moe’s to enjoy a cold Duff…