coldplay stills #1 with 249k copies sold

 

total in 2 weeks: 970k

 

in 17 days in uk: 609k

Nice. :D

so the album has now more than 2 million worldwide?

:wink3:

Nice !!! :cool:

what a huge difference we have in terms of record sales.. Viva la vida or Death and all his friends is number one for the second week here in France but only with about 80 000 copies sold!

Already nearly 1 million sold in the US alone in just two weeks. :)

NEW YORK (Billboard) - British rock band Coldplay ruled the U.S. pop chart for a second week Wednesday, while veteran bad boys Motley Crue debuted at No. 4 with the original lineup's first album in 11 years.

 

Coldplay's fourth album, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," sold 249,000 copies in the week ended June 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

 

Rapper Lil Wayne's former chart-topper "Tha Carter III" held at No. 2 with 209,000 copies, and the Jonas Brothers-led soundtrack to the Disney Channel's hit TV movie "Camp Rock" was steady at No. 3 with 169,000.

 

Motley Crue's autobiographical "Saints of Los Angeles," the group's ninth release in 27 years, sold 99,000 copies. The core lineup's previous release, "Generation Swine," also opened at No. 4 exactly 11 years ago with 80,500 copies. The band peaked commercially with 1989's "Dr. Feelgood," which hit No. 1 and has shipped more than six million copies to date, according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America.

 

After experiencing a number of release date shifts, Oscar-winning rap duo Three 6 Mafia's "Last 2 Walk" opened at No. 5 with 77,000. Its last album, "Most Known Unknown," opened at No. 3 in 2005 with 125,000 copies. Members Juicy J and DJ Paul won an Academy Award the following year for co-writing the "Hustle & Flow" track "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp."

 

The multi-artist "Now 28" compilation fell two places to No. 6 with 66,000 copies, while Usher's "Here I Stand" slipped one to No. 7 with 52,000.

 

Rock act Shinedown's third effort, "The Sound of Madness," started at No. 8 with 50,000, the band's best charting album yet. The group's 2004 debut "Leave a Whisper" peaked at No. 53, and 2005's "Us and Them" at No. 23.

 

Rock band Disturbed's former chart-topper "Indestructible" fell one to No. 9 with 50,000, while R&B starlet Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" dropped three to No. 10 with 47,000.

 

Other debuts included Icelandic rock band's Sigur Ros' "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Splium Endalaust" at No. 15, rock quartet Cute Is What We Aim For's "Rotation" at No. 21, eclectic singer/songwriter Amos Lee's "Last Days at the Lodge" at No. 29, and R&B singer Dwele's "...Sketches of a Man" at No. 35.

 

Album sales were down 7.7% from last week's sum at 7.6 million units, and down 13.2% compared to the same week last year.

 

Reuters/Billboard

 

Keep it up Coldplay!

:dance:

i am fascinated with this news.

 

woah keep that up Coldplay!:)

Coldplay taking over the world,

 

one album at a time.

 

:sneaky:

A huge falling - over 60%.

Probably because VLV was a frontload.

I think album would have strong legs now.

Not only do they have the #1 album second week running, but read below. This was on Yahoo!

 

 

Week Ending June 29, 2008: Viva La Download Or Death And All His CDs

Posted Wed Jul 2, 2008 2:05pm PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

Coldplay holds at #1 on Billboard's album chart for the second week with Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. But the big news is that, in just two weeks, Viva La Vida has sold more downloads than any album in digital history. The old record was held by John Mayer's Continuum. Viva La Vida sold 66,000 downloads this week, bringing its two-week total to 354,000. Continuum has sold 353,000 downloads since its release in September 2006. The rest of the all-time top five albums with the most paid digital downloads consists of Amy Winehouse's Back To Black (329,000), Daughtry's Daughtry (323,000) and Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds (301,000).

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BAND!

The sales dropped really fast. In the third week, either a new album will replace it or Lil Wayne will rise to #1, which is sad...

 

Hope it can hold for the third week though, at least not worse than X&Y...

sweet :D

X&Y sold 320,000 in second week against this 250,000 for viva la vida

Everybody, go buy the album again! :P

Far out,it's really popular!! I guess Pop= Popular...:p

Everybody, go buy the album again! :P

Yeah! Twice! For the record!:lol: