Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto has smashed a new digital record in landing the Number 1 spot in yesterday’s Official Albums Chart, the Official Charts Company can confirm today - the new studio album scored the biggest one week digital albums tally of all time in the UK – becoming the first album to top 80,000 downloads in a week as it did so. 'Mylo Xyloto' tallied just over 83,000 digital sales last week, on the way to totalling 208,000 copies overall. [Discuss this and other latest MX chart news from around the world in the Coldplay sales updates thread at the messageboard now (thanks jeremyy & rafaelchampion)]
The biggest previous weekly digital tally by any album was 79,800, which was achieved by Take That’s 'Progress' in its opening week, in November last year. The only other artist albums to total more than 50,000 downloads in a week are Adele’s '21' which sold 76,000 downloads in its debut week in January this year, along with Lady Gaga’s 'Born This Way', which sold 57,000. "We're thrilled to achieve this record and very grateful to our British fans for their incredible support," the band told theofficialcharts.com.
The sales of 'Mylo Xyloto' are not yet quite enough to push bit into the Official all-time Top 50 digital albums listing, but it should break in pretty quickly, with only 49 albums having sold more than 100,000 downloads to date. However, Coldplay’s previous album 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' is currently at 13 in the all-time ranking, with 175,000 downloads sold. The biggest selling digital album is Adele’s '21' with 664,000 sales, almost double that of second placed Lady Gaga’s 'The Fame'.
Meanwhile Coldplay have also gone straight to number one on the Australian albums chart with Mylo Xyloto. It's the fourth time in a row that Coldplay has reached the top spot on the ARIA album charts and has this week already sold more than 35,000 copies. Coldplay knocked fellow Brit Adele from pole position, just days after her album 21 went platinum for the eighth time. Coldplay's current track Paradise also peaked at number 18 on the Australian singles chart after five weeks.
More photos of Coldplay on the TODAY Show at Rockefeller Plaza {21st October 2011):
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