For decades, U2 has given Irish broadcaster Dave Fanning first dibs to broadcast its singles. Fanning - a friend of Bono since U2's Dublin rise in the late 1970s - led his morning RTE 2FM show with the song, which he praised as "a big song with lots of layers, but not overproduced."
Giving an advance taste on the Internet to the rest of the world is new. The "Get On Your Boots" single goes on sale Feb. 13 in Ireland and shortly thereafter worldwide.
U2's official Web site also lists all 11 title tracks for the new album, "No Line on the Horizon," which will be released Feb. 27 in Ireland, March 2 in many other countries, and March 3 in the United States.
"No Line on the Horizon" was recorded over a two-year period in New York, London, Dublin and Morocco - and is widely forecast to become the biggest-selling album of 2009. It is the band's 12th studio album and the first since 2004's Grammy-winning "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
The U2 Web site said Monday that "No Line on the Horizon" will be sold in an unprecedented five formats: a standard CD case with 24-page booklet; a "digipak" edition with a fold-out poster and rights to download a U2 film; a 64-page magazine version; a box edition that includes a DVD and hardback book; and a limited-issue vinyl LP.
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