Ghost Stories sales - Coldplay dominate the world album charts
Its been a week and a half since the new Coldplay album, Ghost Stories has risen to the fore to be crowned as the fastest selling album of 2014 in the US and the UK, probably in most of the world actually! It has been well publicized on our own Twitter and Facebook pages in addition to the official Coldplay one, that the band achieved their sixth UK #1 album on Sunday! More on that shortly but what we have been waiting for is the Billboard figures for the US charts too and the total worldwide sale figures for the first week of Ghost Stories!
UK Charts - Record breakers in native territory
As reported during the midweek update last week, Ghost Stories had sold 105,800 copies, compared to the 122,508 Mylo Xyloto sold in the same period. The band's sixth album, Ghost Stories went on to sell a gigantic 168,000 in the first week of being on sale. MX sold 208,090 copies in the first week, however, the further dwindling of the music album market, has caused a declined in album sales. Mylo Xyloto was also release during the fourth quarter of the year 2011, a peak climate in sales so when put into perspective, Ghost Stories has done very well indeed!UK charts Fact : Coldplay only need one more number 1 album to equal The Beatles record of a perfect 7 from the debut album!
— Coldplay News (@coldplaying) May 25, 2014
As posted on the Coldplaying social channels, Coldplay only need one more number 1 album in a row to equal a record The Beatles set between 1963 and 1966 for most number 1 albums in a row! Coldplay now have 6 in a row with Ghost Stories. They also broke Keane's current record of 5 number 1 albums (since their debut) in a row.US Charts - Billboard smash of the year

Coldplay's Ghost Stories sold a respectable 383,000 copies, easily enough to reach Number One — it's the best-selling debut week of 2014, beating Eric Church's The Outsiders, which sold 288,000. How did Coldplay pull it off? The band remains huge, of course, but this is an era of declining old-school rockers, when even once-reliable hitmakers such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Linkin Park have trouble sticking to the charts. One possible reason: When I tried to play Ghost Stories on Spotify, all I found were three tracks and "the artist or their representatives have decided not to release this album on Spotify. We are working on it and hope they will change their mind soon." Ghost Stories sold 64 percent of its sales digitally, a total of 245,000, suggesting the band's strategy of making frustrated Spotify streamers switch to iTunes to pay for downloads may be paying off. (Church's Outsiders still isn't streaming)
Coldplay rule the world!

Australia 1 (Platinum - selling 70k copies)Belgium (Flanders) 1Belgium (Wallonia) 1Canada 1 (49,000 copies)Denmark 1Estonia 3Finland 1France 1 Germany 1 Greece 9Hungary 1Ireland 1Italy 1 (Certified as Gold)Japan 7Mexico 1 (Certified as Gold - 30,000 copies)New Zealand 1 Norway 1Poland 1 Portugal 1Russia 1South Korea International Albums 1Spain 1Sweden 1Switzerland 1United Kingdom 1 (168,000 copies)United States 1 (383,000 copies)Uzbekistan 3
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