US Top 10 Albums Through December 7th, 2017

1 – Songs Of Experience – U2 – A-

2 – From a Room: Volume 2 – Chris Stapleton – C

3 – Reputation – Taylor Swift – A

4  – Divide – Ed Sheeran – A

5 – A Pentatonix Christmas – Pentatonix – C-

6 – Tell Me You Love Me – Demi Lovato –

7  – The Thrill Of It All – Sam Smith – B-

8 – Christmas – Michael Buble- C+

9 – War & Leisure – Miguel – C

10 –  The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years – Garth Brooks – B

Comment: I’ve made this point time after time, since Songs Of Experience is so much better than Songs Of Innocence and, god knows, No Line On The Horizon, where does Rolling Stone go with their review? Fricke’s nauseating review (“If experience has taught U2 anything, it is that a great new song can still feel like the first day of the rest of your life”) manages to both overestimate and underestimate the album, if Experience is a 4.5 star review, how is the dreadful Innocence a 5 star review: they are not to be trusted.