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''Wide Awake in Europe'' is a live extended play (EP) by rock band U2. The release was created by the organizers of Record Store Day to bring customers into independent record shops for holiday shopping. A limited number of 5,000 EPs were produced, and were released on Black Friday in 2010, mostly to record shops in North America. The EP features three live tracks on a 12-inch vinyl record, taken from three different concerts during the U2 360° Tour in 2009 and 2010. Along with "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" and "Moment of Surrender", "Mercy", that debuted on tour and was previously unreleased, feature on the EP. ==Background and release== The potential release of an EP was first announced by U2 bassist Adam Clayton in an August 2010 U2.com video, after stating that the band was not yet ready to release another album. In mid-October, listings for the EP appeared on Amazon.com, with a release date of 22 November. Details of the release were officially announced by website ''SlicingUpEyeballs.com'' on 26 October with the track listing and release date information, along with details about its exclusive release to independent record stores, despite its listing on Amazon.com.〔〔 U2.com officially announced the release on 16 November, and "Moment of Surrender" from the release was streamed on the website exclusively for the site's subscribers, beginning the following the day. On the day of the EP's release, U2.com streamed all three tracks for the site's subscribers for a 48-hour period. The EP was created by the creators of Record Store Day for an exclusive release as part of the "Back to Black Friday" program, along over 30 releases from other artists. The program's objective was to draw customers to independent record shops on Black Friday and throughout the 2010 holiday shopping season, as opposed to big-box stores and shopping malls.〔 The EP was released by Interscope Records on 26 November 2010, exclusively for independent record shops in the North America, with a select number of copies available in Europe.〔 U2.com stated copies would be available in the United Kingdom and Ireland, although the London newspaper ''Daily Mail'' reported that it was only available at Tower Records in Dublin. The release was limited to 5,000 copies, all of which were individually numbered, although some pressings had higher numbers, as jackets damaged during the manufacturing process were destroyed and reprinted with newer numbers. An owner of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin store compared ordering the EP to a roulette, and said he "ordered 15 () hoping to get 6". Twenty of the copies were given away in a December 2010 sweepstakes for U2.com site subscribers. Pre-orders for the EP were available from online retailer The Ideal Copy, but had sold out by the end of October, almost a month prior to the release. New Jersey-based retailer Vintage Vinyl Records described the EP as an "Indie-Exclusive Black Friday item", and also sold pre-orders online, but had ended pre-orders early to ensure copies were available for Black Friday. On the day of its release, several record shops in the US reported ''Wide Awake in Europe'' as one of their best-sellers. The EP was sold for around US$10–20,〔〔 but copies were selling on eBay the following day for $75. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wide Awake in Europe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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