"Promo Only Radio Series / Mainstream Radio (USA)" - Various Artists
Promotional Releases
U2 Tracks Appearing on Releases:
- "Numb" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:20)
- "Lemon" (Lemonade Mix Alternate Edit) - U2 (04:11)
- "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:58)
- "Discothèque" (Radio Edit) - U2 (04:36)
- "Staring at the Sun" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:39)
- "Sweetest Thing" (Single Mix) - U2 (03:03)
- "Beautiful Day" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:08)
- "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Radio Edit) - U2 (03:45)
- "Vertigo" (Single Version Edit) - U2 (03:13)
- "Magnificent" (Edit) - U2 (04:24)
- "Your Song Saved My Life" (Long Version - Edit) - U2 (03:50)
Solo Tracks Appearing on Releases:
- "GoldenEye" (Single Edit) - Tina Turner (03:30)
- "When the Stars Go Blue" (Live from Dublin, Jan. 25, 2002 - Promo Edit) - The Corrs (featuring Bono) (04:20)
- "We Are The People" (Single Version) - Martin Garrix ft. Bono and The Edge (03:37)
Background Information
Promo Only is a DJ service that offers monthly curated discs for radio services, DJs, entertainment venues, and music professionals. They offer services in various countries. The US branch started producing content with urban and club releases in the early 1990s. Stations subscribe for a monthly fee to these services, and each month get new material to air, cleared for use on their stations.
This series started under the title “Radio Series” in August 1993, and continued under that title until October 1997. Starting with the November 1997 release it became the “Mainstream Radio” series instead, and it continues under that name to this day.
The tracks are typically the same as those released direct by the label on promotional CDs, but in some cases some additional edits are made to make the tracks more palatable to radio, such as editing silence from the start and end of tracks, or in some cases even making edits to the music itself. A few of these more notable edits are:
- The Lemonade Mix of “Lemon” included in 1993 is an edited version of the edit. It cuts out the brief blip of music heard in the original edit at the start of the track.