what was u2's lead single from 'the joshua tree'
The Joshua Tree "With or Without You" was released as the lead single on 21 March 1987, with the B-sides "Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)" and "Walk to the Water".[115] The single quickly topped the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's first number-one hit in America.[16] The song topped the singles chart in Canada,[116] while reaching number four in the UK[95] and number two in the Netherlands.[111] The group originally planned to use "Red Hill Mining Town" as the second single.[117] However, the group were unhappy with the music video filmed by Neil Jordan,[16][118] and Bono had difficulty singing the song.[119] Ultimately, the group canceled the single.[117][120] Instead, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" was chosen as the second single, and it was released in May 1987 with the tracks "Spanish Eyes" and "Deep in the Heart" as B-sides.[121] Like its predecessor, it topped the Hot 100, giving U2 consecutive number-one singles in the US.[16] The single peaked at number six in the UK,[95] Canada,[116] and the Netherlands.[111] By May, sales of the album surpassed 7 million copies worldwide.[122]
One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik until the latter's departure on 25 March 2015. The group signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015), topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Little Things", "Best Song Ever", "Story of My Life", "Drag Me Down" and "Perfect".