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U2 are leaving Island Records after 27 years and are signing up with rivals Mercury, according to reports.

The BBC claims the Irish band have decided to end their long-standing relationship with Island and are set to release their Greatest Hits LP through Mercury Records on November 20.

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After 26 years and global sales of around 150 million albums, U2, arguably the world’s biggest band, have quit the record label that discovered them.

Insiders claimed yesterday that the band’s members, led by Bono, became fed up with the Island Records’ senior management’s "hands-off" approach towards them, despite their having generated hundreds of millions of pounds for the label.
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Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay are amongst the acts who have contributed tracks to a unique compilation album.

‘Rhythms Del Mundo’ is released in the US on November 14 and has been put together by Cuban collective the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Irish rockers U2 are set to release another "Best Of" album next month, according to their official website.

The as-yet untitled disc will be released on November 21 in North America and will incorporate 16 of the band’s best-known songs. The compilation will also feature the band’s charity collaboration with Green Day, "The Saints are Coming," as well as one brand new song.

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Sixteen of U2’s best known songs and two new tracks are on a single ‘Best of” CD released next month.

No word on a title for the album yet nor what the track-listing is but the release date is set for November 20th.
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POP supergroups U2 and Green Day are heading for No.1 - with a song written 28 years ago by a pair of Scottish punk rockers in a Dunfermline bedsit.

The track - The Saints Are Coming - was recorded to raise cash for Music Rising, a charity set up to aid musicians who were victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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