Home | Rock & Pop | Coldplay Sales Going Rather Well

Coldplay Sales Going Rather Well

image Coldplay

You see, it only needs me to go on the 'Today' programme and proclaim that the new Coldplay album is "quite good" and they're shifting 100,000s of units within hours.

Yep, first day figures suggest that Coldplay's new album 'Viva La Vida' could sell 400,000 this week, about the same as 'X&Y' did in 2005, possibly indicating Chris Martin et al's new long player could equal the 10 million sales scored up by that album, which would be useful for their label EMI, and its newish boss Guy Hands, who could do with a big global hit on his hands to motivate his troops and financial backers. Coldplay will easily beat the previous fastest selling album in the UK this year - Duffy's 'Rockferry' - which sold 183,000 in week one. Though it's some way off Oasis 'Be Here Now', which shifted 695,000 in its first week of sale in 1997, what is now known by historians as "the big week of all round disappointment". Unless something very very odd happens, Coldplay will top the albums chart on Sunday.

Comments (0 posted):

Post your comment comment
Please enter the code you see in the image:
Rate this article
0
Tags
Newsletter
Email:

Latest News

image

T.I. Knocks Britney Spears Off US No.1

23 October, 2008
Rapper T.I. has knocked Britney Spears off the top of the US singles chart after just one week. ...
image

Nelly Says Supergroup Is Coming

23 October, 2008
Nelly has revealed talks are taking place to form a "supergroup" made up of him and three other hip-hop stars....
image

Futuereheads Announce Tour Dates And Single

23 October, 2008
The Futureheads will release a brand new download-only single, 'I Wouldn't Be Like This If You Were Here' on 1 Dec....