COLDPLAY are on course to land the fastest-selling album of the year and save the ailing music industry.

 

Viva La Vida Or Death And His Friends shifted more than 126,000 copies in a single day.

 

Singer Chris Martin, 31, bassist Guy Berryman, 30, guitarist Jonny Buckland, 30, and drummer Will Champion, 29, have gone for a bold new direction and – like all you record buyers ­– I love the results.

 

Gennaro Castaldo of HMV said: “This rate of sales exceeds our most optimistic forecasts, and shows how massively popular Coldplay remain, even though they’ve been away for the best part of three years.”

 

The UK band’s fourth studio album is destined for the No 1 spot, despite having had just three days to do it.

Smash

 

Viva La Vida was issued on a Thursday instead of a Monday, to meet the band’s international release schedules.

 

And the record’s impressive performance suggests it would have exceeded first week sales of their last album – 2005’s X&Y, which sold 465,000 copies – had it been given a regular Monday release.

 

Buoyed by punters buying Father’s Day gifts, the critically-acclaimed set is poised to smash first week sales of current 2008 best-seller Rockferry, by Duffy, 23.

 

That managed 180,000, while Viva La Vida is tipped to sell in excess of 250,000 units in three days.

 

With four more days like that it would potentially be the second fastest-selling album of all time – behind Be Here Now, by Oasis, which shifted 695,761 copies in one week in 1997.

 

Gary Williamson, Head of Music at Zavvi, added: “The Coldplay album will exceed massive expectation – especially as it is backed by the band’s tour announcement.

 

“Early listens suggest this could be their tour de force, a possible Sgt Pepper in the making.”

 

Coldplay’s opus is also the best-selling album pre-sale in iTunes history worldwide.

 

The lads showed off their talents last night on the Jonathan Ross show on BBC1, where Chris, right, shone under some atmospheric blue lights.

 

But it was a different story at the Radio 4 studios the day before when he walked out of an interview saying: “I just don’t like talking about things.”

 

He later returned but was not to be drawn into a full and frank chat.

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/40875/Viva-fever/

[Daily Mirror] Coldplay disc sales triumph

 

Coldplay's new album is on track to become one of the fastest-selling in chart history after 125,000 were bought on day one.

 

Viva La Vida, Or Death And All His Friends is Chris Martin and Co's fourth studio album and is expected to shift 400,000 to 500,000 by next weekend.

 

A cert to top tomorrow's album charts, it is widely tipped to be the fastest selling record of the year.

 

It will be a boost to label EMI, hit by falling CD sales as fans turn to downloads.

 

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But in the all-time stakes the album is unlikely to beat Oasis's Be Here Now.

 

Here are the five most bought albums in their first week in British music history:

 

1. Be Here Now - Oasis, 1997 (695,761) 2. X&Y - Coldplay, 2005 (464,552) 3. Life for Rent - Dido, 2003 (400,351) 4. Spirit - Leona Lewis, 2007 (375,872) 5. Intensive Care - Robbie Williams, 2005 (374,000).

 

 

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/06/14/coldplay-disc-sales-triumph-89520-20606575/

We will never how much this mastepiese CD has done in whole week :(

 

BTW... "Coldplay’s opus is also the best-selling album pre-sale in iTunes history worldwide.

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That's AMAZING!