October 25, 201114 yr UK Midweek Chart update: Coldplay sales hit 95k already Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto is challenging Adele’s 21 to become the fastest-selling album in the UK this year after opening with more than 95,000 sales. The Parlophone act are certainties to debut at number one this coming Sunday with what will be their fifth chart-topping album out of five releases. They begin the week by outselling nearest rival Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds by nearly four copies to one, according to the Official Charts Company. In a week in which the fate of EMI’s future ownership could be determined, the UK major also has a very good chance of sitting at the top of the singles chart this coming Sunday with the Virgin-issued Read All About It by Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande the week’s biggest seller so far. Performed on ITV1’s X Factor results show last Sunday, the single has sold around 67,000 copies so far this week, around 14,000 more than fellow new release and its current closest challenger, the Syco-handled Earthquake by Labrinth featuring Tinie Tempah. Back on the albums chart and, having debuted at one last Sunday, the Sour Mash-issued Gallagher album is the week-to-date’s second-biggest artist album and is around 10,000 sales ahead of Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble’s brand new album Christmas. Buble is joined among the top five sellers by RCA artist Kelly Clarkson whose Stronger is showing up as a new entry at four, while Elektra/Atlantic Bruno Mars who, like Clarkson, performed on last Sunday’s X Factor show, climbs 9-5 with Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Sales of Mars’ album are up 158% on the week, while the track he performed, Runaway Baby, is presently a new entry at 20 on the singles countdown. As Coldplay’s new album looks to challenge its opening-week sales of 208,090, achieved in January, XL act Adele’s album 21 faces the prospect of dropping out of the top five for the first time since its release. Placed fourth last Sunday, it is currently the ninth biggest artist seller of the new chart week. Ahead of Adele, Tom Waits is aiming to achieve only his second UK Top 10 album – the first, Mule Variations, reached number nine in May 1999 – with the newly-released Anti release Bad As Me the week so far’s sixth top seller. Former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes’ new solo album Secret Codes And Battleships – released on his Powdered Sugar label – is new at 11, while Sony’s re-issue of Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning Graceland crops up in 14th position. Also currently showing up as new entries among the Top 20 positions are albums from Roadrunner’s Machine Head (16th place) and Epic/Syco’s Ronan Parke (19th), while in 21st and 22nd positions respectively are new albums from Demon’s The Soldiers and Because/Ed Banger’s Justice. On the singles chart Def Jam/Mercury’s single We Found Love by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris, which spent a third week at the top last Sunday, is now in third place. Kelly Clarkson is matching her album’s position this week on singles with Mr Know It All moving 6-4, while Peacefrog’s Charlene Soraia single Wherever You Will Go drops 3-5. Island act Rizzle Kicks appear poised to score a second Top 10 hit in their own right (they also topped the chart with Olly Murs) with When I Was A Youngster a new entry at seven. As they head to the top of the artist albums chart, Coldplay will also return to the singles chart this week. Paradise is new at 12 in the chart week so far, one position ahead of fellow new release, the Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen single You Make Me Feel by Cobra Starship featuring Sabi. http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1047164&c=1
October 25, 201114 yr It's Tuesday, so I assume these are the 1st day sales. Midweek would be after 3 or 4 days of sales?????!!!!!!!!
October 25, 201114 yr 95k all ready, after one day? :shocked2: Holy coldplayers Batman. I know the rate will slow, but this is good for the band :D
October 25, 201114 yr Thanks :) I have no idea how good this is in terms of their other album sales but nearly 100 thousand sales in under 2 days is incredibly impressive! :)
October 25, 201114 yr One thing I just noticed in the UK iTunes store is that Mylo Xyloto is both first and second! How has that happened?
October 25, 201114 yr WOW! I would love it if they beat the Adele album record, I really dont like her! So is Paradise eligible for the charts now?
October 26, 201114 yr Author UK Midweek Chart update: Coldplay claim biggest first-week sales since May Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto has needed just two days to achieve the highest first-week album sales in the UK for an entire week since the end of May. The Parlophone album clocked up 122,508 sales up to the close of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, more than any newly-released album has sold in an entire week since Interscope/Polydor’s Lady GaGa album Born This Way debuted at number one with 215,639 sales five months ago. Xylo Myloto’s total for the week so far is already more than their first album Parachutes sold (70,951) to debut at number one across its first week in 2000, but the first-week tallies of their subsequent albums were significantly higher. The 2002 album A Rush Of Blood To The Head began with 273,924 sales, 2005’s X&Y 464,471 and Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 302,074 in 2008. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, released by Sour Marsh, remains the week to date’s second biggest album, while Virgin’s Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande track Read All About It is the top-selling single with Syco’s fellow new release Earthquake by Labrinth featuring Tinie Tempah in second place. The full midweek singles and albums charts are on musicweek.com. http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1047174&c=1
October 26, 201114 yr less than 30k for tuesday? thats as not many as a coldplay album should sell :cry: can it hit 350k by the end of the week?:confused:
October 26, 201114 yr It's interesting that X&Y is their top selling album even in the US. I guess that's why hipsters hate it.
October 26, 201114 yr Well, MX is projected to sell around 450K in the US based on the first day sales. I dont like this number, I want it to be certified Gold at least in the 1st week.
October 26, 201114 yr Chris Martin and the gang’s fifth Capitol Records release, Xylo Myloto, is set for a #1 debut on next week’s HITS chart with sales of between 425-450k, based on one-day reports from those music retailers And +220+/- in the UK... only 650-700K in the UK and US... VIVA did 721K only in the US +300 in the UK in first week... what happend to the albums dop sales, nobody's selling albums today except Adele.
October 26, 201114 yr ^Uhhh Coldplay are selling albums. Are you kidding? Almost 650-700k copies is NOTHING to scoff at.
October 26, 201114 yr The reason is not selling that much as the previous albums is cos the previous albums had brilliant singles released along with the album, this one hasnt.
October 26, 201114 yr To be fair those first day sales estimates are based on Monday. 99.9% of the time new albums come out on Tuesday here in the States. Your casual fan or average consumer would not have even been expecting to buy it on Monday. I would be very interested to see what the numbers were for Tuesday...
October 26, 201114 yr WOW! I would love it if they beat the Adele album record, I really dont like her! So is Paradise eligible for the charts now? They won't beat Adele's record. She dosn't have one for the first week actually. And Paradise will .. I think it's at #12th on the Midweek charts .. less than 30k for tuesday? thats as not many as a coldplay album should sell :cry: can it hit 350k by the end of the week?:confused: It won't. It's not likely that it will surpass gaga's sales ( 215k) so it should be arround that. 250k at best IMO It's interesting that X&Y is their top selling album even in the US. I guess that's why hipsters hate it. AROBTTH is their top selling album in the US .. In the UK too . Although You might be talking about the first week sales .. But I think X&Y had such high week sales cause of : a) Speed of sound smashing all over B) AROBTTH created enormus hype for them Well, MX is projected to sell around 450K in the US based on the first day sales. I dont like this number, I want it to be certified Gold at least in the 1st week. LOL , they make certifications out of shippments .. and believe me , they have already shipped over 500k of mylo Xyloto to US retailers . I bet that is already eligible for Platinum status ... Chris Martin and the gang’s fifth Capitol Records release, Xylo Myloto, is set for a #1 debut on next week’s HITS chart with sales of between 425-450k, based on one-day reports from those music retailers And +220+/- in the UK... only 650-700K in the UK and US... VIVA did 721K only in the US +300 in the UK in first week... what happend to the albums dop sales, nobody's selling albums today except Adele. Umm .. They are still selling . Actually the market is Up from last year .Uk's market hasn't suffered such a big drop in album sales since 08 . The problem is that X&Y and Viva la vida , both had huge singles at the moment the album was released. Specially in the US both were big radio hits for them .. So it really helped. ETIAW did poorly and Paradise even worst. Radios are waiting for POC to be chosen as single and sales will start to pick off . AROBTH kept the momentum going with all the singles they had .. And it was a more constant seller than the frontloaded sales of VLV and X&Y . I bet MX will do the same .. Specially with POC And hopefully CB coming after
October 27, 201114 yr Also, the crap reviews its been getting hasnt helped the sales cause either. I cant see this album lasting pace, not in this country anyway.
October 27, 201114 yr Also, the crap reviews its been getting hasnt helped the sales cause either. I cant see this album lasting pace, not in this country anyway. I think the UK was actually quite turned off with Viva la vida .. They weren't the same Coldplay as they were used to hear and that hurted sales .. It's the lowest album there and the one that is far away from topping the 2 million mark. To be honest , I was really thinking that they would open HUGE . Specially since MX was released in the 4th quarter that is usually where albums sell more. Releasing POC ( that will help them LOTS .. Both in the US and the UK . Rihanna is completely huge there right now ) will keep the momentum going .. Specially with 4Q and christmas sales around the corner
October 27, 201114 yr It hasn't been getting crap reviews at all and it will certainly sell more than VLV in the UK, it lost all momentum once Lost! was the 3rd single, it didn't get promoted and didn't take off at all. PoC and Charlie Brown however is a different story, see Clocks from AROBTTH, Talk from X&Y even, they became radio hits and boosted album sales a lot.
October 27, 201114 yr It hasn't been getting crap reviews at all and it will certainly sell more than VLV in the UK, it lost all momentum once Lost! was the 3rd single, it didn't get promoted and didn't take off at all. PoC and Charlie Brown however is a different story, see Clocks from AROBTTH, Talk from X&Y even, they became radio hits and boosted album sales a lot. http://www.metacritic.com/person/coldplay Well , but MX got Coldplay's worst reviews . I think that the album will do really well up until the first week of January .. Then IDK .. It might do better and It will in part be cause of Christmas sales ..
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