All That You Can't Leave Behind

Three weeks of demos in late 1998 at Hanover Quay Studios produced Kite among other songs. Sessions then ran past a 1999 target, held up by schedules, Bono's work for Jubilee 2000 and the soundtrack to The Million Dollar Hotel. Lanois and Eno produced, with additional production and mixing from Steve Lillywhite, Mike Hedges, Richard Stannard and Julian Gallagher, Tim Palmer and Steve Fitzmaurice. The music is credited to U2 and the lyrics to Bono, with the Edge also credited on three songs.

Eno played synthesizer and did programming, Lanois sang backing vocals and added guitar, and Paul Barrett played brass. The international edition adds The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with words by Salman Rushdie.

Chart and reception

In the United States it debuted at 3 with 427,826 copies in its first week, and it reached number one in 32 countries. It has sold over 12 million copies and is four times platinum in the United Kingdom and United States. It won seven Grammys, including Record of the Year for Beautiful Day (2001) and Walk On (2002), and was nominated for Album of the Year. Rolling Stone ranked it 139 on its 2003 list and 280 in 2012.

It holds a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100. James Hunter of Rolling Stone called it "U2's third masterpiece", and David Browne of Entertainment Weekly found it as unwaveringly assured as Pop was tentative. Pitchfork gave it 5.0 out of 10.