"It's encouraging to see such strong sales in the digital albums market before the Christmas gifting season gets properly under way," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, the trade association of the UK's recorded music industry. IFPI’s Global Album Sales chart combines global sales of physical and digital album downloads to rank the top albums of the year. 28-page booklet with additional artwork, lyrics and credits. Available exclusively on the Coldplay Store. This year's digital album sales have already overtaken 2010's total before the traditional Christmas boom. Strictly limited edition Infinity Station CD version of Coldplays Music Of The Spheres, featuring alternate album artwork and Infinitum typography. 85 of Coldplay’s week 1 figure were pure sales (physical and download), including 12,400 on vinyl, meaning it also tops this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart. This week’s top five is completed by the 20 th anniversary edition of Oasis’ debut album, Definitely Maybe.Digital album sales in the UK have already surpassed the 2010 total with more than two months to spare.Ģ1.3 million albums have been downloaded so far in 2011, with Coldplay's latest album Mylo Xyloto breaking the record for first week sales with 80,000.ĭigital downloads now account for more than a quarter of total album sales in the UK at 26.2 per cent, up from 17.5 per cent last year, according to the Official Charts Company data.ĭigital sales of Mylo Xyloto accounted for 40 per cent of total purchases last month, which have have been as a result of the band refusing to allow it to appear on music streaming services such as Spotify.Ĭoldplay's latest record joins the list of digital albums to pass the 100,000 mark, along with Adele, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran. Paloma Faith’s A Perfect Contradiction is at number four. For their 'new direction' album, Coldplay hired the egghead responsible for more new direction albums than any other producer over the past 35 years, Brian Eno. ‘ Ghost Stories is a captivating record that will live with the band's millions of fans for a long time to come.’Ĭoldplay’s previous five studio albums - Parachutes (2000), A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002), X&Y (2006), Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2008) and Mylo Xyloto (2011) - have sold more than 11.1 million copies in the UK to date.Įlsewhere in the charts Michael Jackson’s Xscape is at number two while re-united Beautiful South bandmates Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott are at number three with their new album, What Have We Become.
X&Y was recorded at studios in the UK and has been produced by Danton Supple (Morrissey, Elbow), Ken Nelson (Badly Drawn Boy, Kings of Convenience) and the band themselves. Surfacing in 2000 with the breakthrough single 'Yellow,' British group Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest acts of the early 21st century, honing a blend of earnest Brit-pop and anthemic rock that helped push the band to the top of album charts worldwide with multi-platinum albums such as Parachutes (2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), and Viva La Vida (2008). By: REUTERS In addition, the album includes the song My Universe, which made the group the first British band to debut at the top of the US Hot 100 with their collaboration with BTS.The song has accumulated more than 100 million views on YouTube. Miles Leonard, chairman of Parlophone and Warner Bros Records UK, who has worked with Coldplay since their debut, said: ‘It is a thrill to celebrate their sixth straight number one album in the UK a landmark moment in a long list of accomplishments for an extraordinary band. Coldplay's massively anticipated new album, X&Y, is the follow-up to 2002's 16-million selling 'A Rush of Blood To The Head' and includes the single 'Speed of Sound'. Coldplay with BTS at the American Music Awards (Photo: Reuters / Mario Anzuoni). The record beat the previous fastest seller Caustic Love by Paolo Nutini, which clocked up sales of 109,000 in its first week of release. Coldplay have achieved the fastest selling number one album of 2014 with their latest record Ghost Stories.Īccording to the Official Charts Company (OCC), the band’s sixth studio album sold 168,000 copies since it went on sale on Monday 19 May.