Record Store Day is an annual day where bands release special versions of their recordings to help support the independent record store. It started as a US event but has quickly expanded worldwide, and it has also expanded to include a second, smaller event titled RSD – Black Friday, held in November each year during the American Thanksgiving week.
U2’s first participation in the Record Store Day events was 2010’s Black Friday event where they released the EP “Wide Awake in Europe”. The band has participated in every event since April 2017. The U2 releases tend to be pressed in limited quantities, but are not always numbered. U2’s releases in the past have included:
- Wide Awake in Europe (November 26, 2010, 5000 Copies, 12″, Numbered)
- Ordinary Love (November 29, 2013, 10″, 10000 Copies)
- Songs of Innocence / Black Vinyl (April 18, 2015, 5000 Copies, 12″, Numbered)
- Red Hill Mining Town / Picture Disc (April 22, 2017, 12″, 7000 Copies)
- Joshua Tree Limited Fanzine UK Version (500 Copies, Numbered)
- Joshua Tree Limited Fanzine USA Version (1000 Copies, Numbered)
- The Blackout (November 24, 2017, 12″)
- The Blackout / Black Vinyl (19250 Copies)
- The Blackout / Black and White Vinyl (750 Copies)
- Lights of Home / Picture Disc (April 21, 2018, 12″, 5000 Copies)
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (November 23, 2018, 12″, 7000 Copies)
- The Europe EP (April 13, 2019, 12″, 5000 Copies)
- Three (40th Anniversary Edition) (November 29, 2019, 12″, 17000 Copies, Numbered)
- 11 O’Clock Tick Tock (40th Anniversary Edition) (August,29 2020, transparent blue vinyl, 12″, 7000 Copies)
- Boy (40th Anniversary Edition) (November 27, 2020, white vinyl, 12″, 10000 Copies)
- Fire (40th Anniversary Edition) (June 12, 2021, 12″, Picture Disc, 7500 Copies)
- Gloria (40th Anniversary Edition) (November 26, 2021, transparent yellow vinyl, 12″, 7000 Copies)
