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Artist News
New Coldplay LP notches big first week sales
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 October 2011
Coldplay’s fifth studio LP, ‘Mylo Xyloto’, which looks a safe bet to conquer the charts this weekend, has experienced one of the best-selling opening weeks of any album released so far this year.
According to the latest Official Chart Company update, the LP shifted 122,000 units in its first three days after release, with digital downloads making up 40% of all UK sales. ‘Mylo’ could well exceed 200,000 copies by Sunday, an achievement matched only by Adele’s ’21’ and Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’.
When asked how it would feel to dislodge Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ debut from the number one spot in the albums chart this coming weekend, Chris Martin said: “We’ve never knocked Noel Gallagher off anything, not even a chair!”
The sales of ‘Mylo Xyloto’ are still a way off the highest UK first week sale of all time, that being 763,735, set by Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’ in 1997. Noel Gallagher has a spare chair, it seems.
