Hagamos recapitulación de las últimas noticias aparecidas con respecto al futuro discográfico de U2:

• 18 Agosto 2010: Entrevista a The Edge y Larry en Rolling Stone:

There are also a lot of new songs: four new albums' worth. In addition to Songs of Ascent (a second set of tracks from the No Line sessions) and Bono and the Edge's score for the Spider-Man musical, U2 are working on a "rock album," as Bono puts it, "and a club-sounding album." He expects U2 will release a new record, drawn from that body of songs, in time for their return to North America next year. "That's going to be great. Those people are going to have tickets to a whole new show with new songs." 

• 10 Agosto 2010: Entrevista a Adam Clayton en U2.com:

"We've been doing some rehearsing, but mainly we've been doing recording. That was the one thing that Bono was able to do during his recovery, so we've done quite a lot of recording. We've got quite a lot of tunes put away and we're gonna toss a few out into the show and see how they go down. If we could get, I don't know, maybe four songs into the show, it gives us a chance to get to know the songs better. It gives us a chance to evaluate how they play in front of a crowd and then you know if you're really, kind of, communicating. So you can kind of tweak them. "We're kind of trying to break it up a bit. You know, the idea of doing another big record and going away for a long time doesn't appeal to us. But the idea of putting out tracks in the show and seeing what happens to them, maybe putting out a little EP at some point -- these are all possibilities we're thinking about."

• 04 Agosto 2010: Entrevista a Bono y The Edge en LaStampa.it

"Abbiamo 25 canzoni pronte e quattro nuovi progetti. Primo: un disco ambient, Songs of ascent; secondo un disco rock; terzo uno di clubmusic, con DJ; quarto, la colonna sonora di Spiderman, il musical che debutta in novembre a Broadway con la regia di Julie Taymor: è una pura che bada alla pièce, ispirata agli Usa del dopo 11 settembre, tempo di ansia, con miti che ci parlano della vita contemporanea".

• 04 Agosto 2010: Entrevista a Bono en IlGiornale.it

"We are planning to release our next record as an application. Today, with laptops, iphone and ipad music can go back to being a visual phenomenon."

De todas estas entrevistas podemos extraer que U2 está trabajando en 4 proyectos diferentes: