I popped in the German store just for fun - no U2 on the most popular songs/albums but I saw PJ Harvey as a featured artist. And while they didn't have the four track The Letter single, they had a single track single called Stone. Netherlands and Portugal don't have anything besides the albums. Italy has The Letter CD1 single, Spain CD2, France CD2 + the one track Stone (the US has the b-sides for CD1 & CD2 conveniently in one spot) while Canada has The Letter single but with NO b-sides. Silly Canucks!
The UK store had the Stone single, but also two You Come Through For Me singles, featuring Stone, Angel, and Who the F*ck (4 track version). I can browse but can't buy - very annoying as I don't have the habit of searching around for expensive import singles at the moment. Granted they don't sound that spectacular...
I didn't check the rest as I figured they wouldn't match the UK. I knew that different stores had different things, but this seems a bit non-intuitive - I mean are all these little things really relevant for marketing to each country, especially since digital downloads are free? I suppose enough people could listen to the 30 second clips and not buy to drive a negative cost, but that seems rather out there...
[Edited on 2005-2-21 by Carl]
