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PS: I need to find time to update the numbers. Maybe I'll just post some highlights and wait until we get the year-end numbers and refine everything :laugh3:

The market is really bad. Ghost Stories is actually the best selling album released in 2014 and still has the best sales week for any albums this year. This will change in November and December as there are big albums to be released soon. So market wise, they are doing great. But you're right, these are low numbers for Coldplay and we can say that it's due to the minimal promo and not touring.

Great show. It was worth staying up late.

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Updated OP with sales, US Airplay, streaming etc... Highlights: Magic has crossed the 100M streams on Spotify. It's now one of 61 songs with over 100M streams on Spotify. A Sky Full Of Stars being Platinum on the Mediatraffic chart (over 2M points) A Sky Full Of Stars officially being Coldplay 2nd most popular song on US radio (after Viva La Vida). It will surpass it very soon, probably in a week or 2. I also added a section for True Love.

One effective way is to not allow new accounts to create new threads. Make them wait a week or a month before having that privilege.

We won't have the exact and official number for worldwide sales until Parlophone or IFPI publishes it (probably at the end of the year) but here are 2 estimates: MEDIATRAFFIC Week 01: 1,023,000 (#1) Week 02: 339K (#1) Week 03: 196K (#2) Week 04: 166K (#2) Week 05: 118K (#5) Week 06: 104K (#4) Week 07: 91K (#5) TOTAL: 2,037,000 MUSICHARTS (they track more countries) Week 01: 1,003,900 (#1) Week 02: 357,000 (#1) Week 03: 224,700 (#2) Week 04: 206,700 (#2) Week 05: 150,700 (#4) Week 06: 140,100 (#3) Week 07: 131,900 (#4) TOTAL: 2,215,000

Updated the OP: --Ghost Stories has sold over 2M copies worldwide --GS has sold over 400K in the UK. It's still the best selling album of the year --ASFOS reached new peaks in Australia (#2), in UK (#9) and few other countries --ASFOS has been rising on US radio and on Spotify --Magic is still doing well on Spotify and it will become one of the fastest songs to reach 100M streams.

Updated with: --New weekly US sales for Ghost Stories --Worldwide sales --New sales for Magic and ASFOS --Gold certification in Canada for ASFOS 40K --Gold certification for Ghost Stories in Spain 20K --Gold certification for Ghost Stories in Poland 10K --2x Platinum for Magic in Australia --Gold certification for ASFOS in Australia and ASFOS reached a new peak (#2)

Updated with: --Platinum certification in Italy --Radio airplay --Streaming numbers --Worldwide sales --UK sales --US sales

LMAO As if this was the first video like this. And I agree with people saying this is their worst video. The Hardest Part was weird but at least it was memorable. Yellow was simple but amazing and touching. Great performance by Chris.

I'm going to pretend that the Target commercial is the official video

I don't like it :(

I love that the band is carrying a full orchestra with them. The acoustic version of ASFOS was cute by the studio version is much much much better. There is a reason the band didn't put the acoustic version on the album. And the ASFOS EP will only have the Midnight remixes.

This is going to be EPIC. I can't wait.

What do you think the theme is? They threw everyone off guards with the day shoot. I was pretty sure it was going to take place in the evening. But I can't wait to see the result. I looks like they are doing something fun and playful like Paradise.

Sounds promising.

Another's Arms could be a great single. It's beautiful and the instrumental is amazing. When the album was released, AA went #1 in few countries on iTunes and charted high in many so that is promising. I love Ink but it should never be a single. Like NEVER. O and True Love should be next.

Ghost Stories spends a 3rd week at #2 in the UK with 48,361 copies. Here is the breakdown of the sales in the UK after a month. 1st week 1 - 168,048 (=) 2nd week 2 - 75,032 (-55,3%) 3rd week 2 - 46,315 (-38,2%) 4th week 2 - 48,361 (+5,4%) So far, it's the top selling album of the year and has already been certified platinum.

United World Charts for this week: Ghost Stories is #2 with 196K for a total of 1,558,000 after 3 weeks. Magic got 78K and ASFOS 133K Bravo

US charts: after 2 weeks at #1, Ghost stories falls to #5 with 46K. That's enough to move it past 500K and get it certified GOLD. ASFOS was released to Pop radio yesterday and it's about to pass Magic's radio peak. After only 2 weeks on the worldwide chart, Ghost Stories is now the 4th best selling album of the year. It will be #3 after this week. Finally, Ghost Stories is now the best selling album of the year in the UK.

I love every song but the next 2 singles have to be O and True Love (the order doesn't matter. These 2 have to be next). But if I had to choose, I would release O first then True Love. If they are releasing an EP in November then they should just release O. INK would be a very bad single choice. I love the song but it wouldn't work as a single. It will flop very hard.