To the surprise of absolutely no one, U2 360 was named the Top Tour of 2011 in Billboard magazine's year-end review. During Billboard's reporting year, which runs from November 2010 to November 2011, U2 360 played 44 shows, sold 2,887,972 tickets and grossed $293,281,487 - a little more than $100 million better than Bon Jovi's second-place total. You probably know by now that U2 360 became the highest-grossing tour of all-time shortly before it ended in July, 2011. Billboard has a feature recapping that accomplishment and also looking at some of the other successful tours from the past year. Now we wait for the new U2 tour, we hope it's gonna be soon and we hope we are not going to wait for it many years.

Q has released the full details for the upcoming special U2 Achtung Baby anniversary disc accompanying their next magazine issue. AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered features the following artists:

Nine Inch Nails - Zoo Station
U2 (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Damien Rice - One
Patti Smith - Until The End Of The World
Garbage - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Depeche Mode - So Cruel
Snow Patrol - Mysterious Ways
The Fray - Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Gavin Friday - The Fly
The Killers - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
Glasvegas - Acrobat
Jack White - Love Is Blindness

Fans can pre-order the issue from Q starting today.

BONO was spotted partying in top nightclub Lillie's Bordello this weekend. Fresh from raising his pint of Guinness on Arthur's Day, Bono arrived in the top Dublin club on Friday night. The U2 frontman spent the night chilling out with pal Julian Lennon who had just wrapped up his stint on The Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy. Speaking on the show, the son of Beatle John Lennon showed Ryan photographs he had taken of Bono in France while performing with the number one band. An insider said Bono spent most of the night chatting with Julian. "Bono has always been a big fan of Lillie's, it seems to be the only place he goes when he's in town.

Bono and Edge are joining Lady Gaga and others at the William J. Clinton Foundation's 10th anniversary "A Decade of Difference" celebration on October 15. The event will take place at the Hollywood Bowl. Bono and Edge will be doing a "special acoustic set" according to the foundation's site. The event will be broadcast live on Yahoo. American Express cardholder Presale begins on September 15 and the general public onsale will be on September 19 via Ticketmaster. Ticket prices range between $50 - $250 plus applicable fees. By the way - Bono now is in NY, picture with Sting at the fashion show below.

Bono, Edge and director Davis Guggenheim answered questions for 45 minutes on friday september 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Bono shared that the audience will be surprised to find out "that we were so inept, and these days we're a better band. We've learnt our craft, and therein lies a huge danger, which is there's a giant chasm between the very good and the great. And U2 right now has a danger of surrendering to the very good. In those times 20 years ago and indeed before that, we were crap and great. There wasn't much very good and I think that it just reminded just how crap we were and I found it really awful and yet it was a self-imposed crapness like we were doing...we were trying to make music that we didn't understand and the band seems to do its best work when it's in that environment and when it gets comfortable, it's not as interesting."