U2 Popular on iTunes Celebrity Playlists

What do Nicole Kidman, James Blunt, Anderson Cooper and Jay-Z have in common? They all have U2 on their personal playlists.

Poking around the iTunes music store, I decided to peek in and see what some of my favorite celebrities are listening to (they have this cool category called “Celebrity Playlists” in the search sidebar). The more I looked, the more U2 I saw. I kept searching until I had looked at every single playlist and jotted down each and every reference to U2.

It didn’t surprise me that the boys came up that often, but what did surprise me were the songs that were chosen. I tallied them up and here are the results, starting with the most popular at the top (how many times they appeared on lists is the number in parentheses):

“Where The Streets Have No Name” (7)
“One” (7)
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” (3)
“Mysterious Ways” (3)
“New Year’s Day” (2)
“With Or Without You” (2)
“Vertigo” (2)
“40” (1)
“Wire” (1)
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1)
“Bullet The Blue Sky” (1)
“Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?” (1)
“The First Time” (1)
“Beautiful Day “(1)
“Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” (1)
“Walk On” (1)
“Kite” (1)
“Yahweh” (1)

I credit the popularity of “Streets” with its incomparable live presence, but I’m stunned at the absence of “All I Want Is You” and a few others.

(c) Kokkoris/@U2, 2006.