The Irish band U2 today released a new theme, “Street of Dreams”, the advance of a new studio album by the group, the first in nine years, to be edited later this year.
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07/07/2026
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Dand according to Universal Music Portugal, in a statement released today, the music, available on the streaming platforms, is accompanied by a music video, “filmed in Mexico City, in May, when the band also featured at the end of the Street Child World Cup 2026, held at Lake Texcoco Ecological Park”.
Formed in Dublin in 1976, the U2 feature 15 studio albums, the most recent of which, “Songs of Experience”, edited in December 2017 as a complement to “Songs of Innocence”, 2014.
The publisher recalls that the band returned to the road in 2018 with the tour “eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour”, a production in arenas, presented in Portugal.
Throughout her career, the band, which in 2005 joined the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’, won several awards, including 22 Grammy and the Amnesty International Consciousness Ambassador Award.
The U2 are responsible for successful themes such as “Where the streets have no name”, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “One”, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”, “With or without you”, “Beautiful Day”, “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”, “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)”, “All I want is you” and “New Years Day”.
The band has performed six times in Portugal. In September 2018 they performed twice at MEO Arena in Lisoa. In 2010 they performed two concerts at the Coimbra City Stadium in 2005, 1997 and 1993 at the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, and in 1982 they were at the Vilar de Mouros festival.
In 2005, the U2 were decorated by the then President of the Republic, Jorge Sampaio, with the Order of Liberty.
In 2014, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, who signs Vhils, created “Raised by Wolves”, a video included in the visual project “Films of Innocence”, edited in December 2014, and a complement to the album “Songs of Innocence”.