U2 bring "The Greatest Show On Earth" to Tate Modern

BBC Music's performance clip pairs a new song from Carnaval De Luz with a gallery full of colour and a busy conversation about the band's live sound.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 631,059 views a day, 33 times a normal first day on this channel (19,199).

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Bono and the Edge turn towards each other as the song builds, surrounded by walls washed in pink, yellow and red. Tate Modern provides more than a backdrop for U2's "The Greatest Show On Earth": the gallery becomes part of the performance, with the audience silhouetted against its projections.

The BBC Music upload passed 400,000 views in its first 11 hours, an unusually fast start for a full-length performance on the channel. Its comment section has already drawn far more contributions than a typical upload receives across its whole first day.

This is a new song rather than a return to the familiar catalogue. The BBC identifies it as the third single from Carnaval De Luz, and the performance moves from Bono's centre-stage opening into a stronger rhythmic push, a featured guitar riff and a chorus that brings singer and guitarist face to face.

Viewers are picking out the sound as much as the spectacle: Bono's voice, the Edge's guitar tone and the experience of hearing a song take shape live recur in the comments. Several also mention seeing Larry Mullen Jr at the drums.

The wider Tate Modern concert, presented by Jo Whiley, puts the new material alongside "The Unforgettable Fire", "Bad" and "With Or Without You". That last song already has a substantial history on BBC Music: U2's earlier BBC performance is the channel's most-watched regular upload. This time, the attention is on a fresh addition to the set.

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The numbers

The Tate Modern performance is drawing views and comments well beyond BBC Music's usual start for a regular video.

the video's first day

usual first day here

19,199

this video

631,059

subscribers

4,630,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,508,914,059

views per day

1,449,709

typical day: 3,963,644

the video

views

414,628

likes

10,347

comments

1,033

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

GRM Daily

6,730,000

BritneySpearsVEVO

4,800,000

BBC Music

4,630,000

KEXP

4,120,000

Epitaph Records

4,020,000

BBCRadio1VEVO

3,460,000

As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.