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okay i almost choked on air from laughing. Adele is awesome though.

maybe it'll cross one million in the us first week :P ok that's not easy to do but it'd be a good story

Right now it's Charlie Brown. Us Against the World is a strong second though.

I was a lurker, then a member who never posted, now I'm posting! It takes a lot of energy for me to dive in to a new message board it seems like. I always feel like I have to catch up and get to know individuals or else I get a little bored...thought the new album was a good time to jump in. I'd love to get to know other fans of course. It's amusing...I used to not be into Coldplay that much and just didn't "get" them. Then I listened to Viva la Vida a few years ago repeatedly with friends while traveling and it changed my whole view :D It's now one of my ALL TIME favorite songs.

I have only listened a couple times because I want to wait for the physical copy to play it ALL THE TIME...but my first impression was if there was some minor tweaking in the track listing, this could have been flawless. It should have been shorter. MX is the only instrumental track I would have kept. If the others would be necessary I'd cut them way down in time (I know they're short already) and just attach them onto the next track as a longer intro. I'd take out at least one track (as of now I'm thinking Major Minus). I think the album was thisclose to reaching "masterpiece" territory, but it's not because of more than a few minor (though noticable) tracking issues.

I wonder what they have in presales already. When it first went for preorders it was top 10 on itunes for at least a week. Now it hit no. 1 on itunes. Did this happen prior to Viva la Vida? I think Coldplay has the fanbase to get 700k first week again.

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