'Hope For Haiti Now' album debuts at Billboard #1 but fails to beat Coldplay record

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After the success of the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, the digital album "Hope for Haiti Now," including live recordings of the night's performances from artists like Christina Aguilera, Coldplay, and Madonna, hit #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 171,000 copies sold. The album was available for less than two full days when sales were tracked for this week's chart. The album is also the first ever album to hit #1 on the Billboard albums chart on digital sales alone.

 

Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" is the only other digital album to have sold more copies in one week. It's also the third charity album to hit #1 on the Billboard charts, following 1985's "We Are the World" and 2001's "God Bless America," following the September 11th attacks. The biggest selling track from the album is Justin Timberlake's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which is currently #1 on iTunes.

 

Susan Boyle spends another week at #2 with "I Dreamed a Dream," selling 86,000 copies this week. Following at #3 is Lady Gaga with "The Fame," which sells 62,000 of the combined deluxe version. Rockers Spoon earn their second top 10 debut this week with "Transference" selling 53,000 copies.

 

The "2010 Grammy Nominees" compilation, which includes music from Kings of Leon, Kelly Clarkson, and U2, lands at #5 and moves 49,000 copies in its first week. It's also the ninth "Grammy Nominees" album to make the top 10 on Billboard. Last week's #1, "Contra" from Vampire Weekend, moves down to #6, selling 43,000 copies.

 

http://www.gantdaily.com/news/12/ARTICLE/70811/2010-01-28.html

[The Escapist]

Viva La Vida FTW!

[coldplayisawesome]

:dance:

[Corkus]

Part of me feels happy for Coldplay, then another part of me feels guilty for beating out a charitable cause. :lol:

[getithom]

:awesome:

[AnnaElisabeth]

:clap: Go Coldplay! :awesome:

[aniskywalker]

I feel a bit sad about the charity thing - but go Coldplay go!!!

[Juanma]

:clap: Go Coldplay! :awesome:

 

this :D

 

 

:dance:

[LadyBellaStrawberry]

Coldplay is on Hope for Haiti, so this is so weird.

Coldplay trying to pass Coldplay :laugh3:

I guess only Coldplay can top Coldplay.

And if someone passes Coldplay this year, they wouldn't last long..... because Coldplay has another album coming out later on this year :lol:

 

I love how much Coldplay has conquered :wacko:

Its actually quite amazing :dance:

[Juanma]

^ :D

 

it is :dance:

 

next album hope is even bigger and more record breaking than viva :dance:

 

 

 

only if they dont do an "intimate acoustic album" :thinking: