Coldplay Will Debut At #1 On The Billboard Charts
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 06.25.2008
How many copies did Viva La Vida move?
Early reports show Coldplay leading U.S. album sales with an opening week of more than 700,000 copies. This comes a week after Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III became the first album in more than three years to sell 1 million units in a week.
Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends locks the top spot with 721,000 sold, and bows atop the U.S. chart while holding #1 for a second week in its native U.K. This becomes the band's second #1 in the U.S., as X&Y posted similar numbers in 2005.
The consecutive debuts for Wayne and Coldplay marks only the second time that two albums start with sums greater than 700,000 in back-to-back weeks. The last time it happened was May 2000, when Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again (1.3 million), followed by Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP (1.8 million).
Yea. The music industry is really suffering....put good music together for the rediculous $15 price tag and people will pay. Write 2 good songs and 11 bad ones and you're destined for iTunes. No one killed the music industry except for the greedy executive bastards who wanted a quick buck.
Posted By: Guest#6237 (Guest) on June 25, 2008 at 05:09 PM
