Posted June 15, 200817 yr Coldplay album goes platinum in three days Sunday, June 15 2008, 19:06 BST By Nick Levine, Music Editor Rex Features Coldplay have entered the charts at number one with new album Viva La Vida. The album has sold 302,074 copies since its release on Thursday - enough to earn it a platinum award after just three days on sale. The band have now topped the UK albums chart with each of their first four studio albums. Last week's chart-topper, 22 Dreams by Paul Weller, drops to four behind albums by Neil Diamond and Duffy. Meanwhile, The Fratellis score the second-highest new entry of the week, debuting at five with sophomore effort Here We Stand
June 15, 200817 yr My guess of 300,000 exactly wasn't far off then. Really astonishing sales for just 3 days.
June 15, 200817 yr Not as high as I was expecting tbh. I was expecting around 350 K, BUT it's still very good sales for three days! :D Edited June 15, 200817 yr by Glen
June 15, 200817 yr Excellent sales. :cheer: This will easily be the year's biggest seller & I'm sure it will go on to emulate the fantastic sales of their previous albums. :D Edited June 15, 200817 yr by truly talented
June 15, 200817 yr Thanks mart!n not as much as some papers were estimating [some were saying 500k with the added benefit of fathers day sales] but still great sales. Edited June 15, 200817 yr by sunday
June 15, 200817 yr OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!1 in 3 days! cant belive it!!! in one week they would sell more than 500K!! luv them!
June 15, 200817 yr 302k in three days is pretty good, wonder how their sales will hold up this week? Still we should FINALLY see an album spend more than a week at No1! The album chart is becoming a joke like the singles chart was between 1999-2002.
June 15, 200817 yr thats brilliant sales for 3 days and its great that 4 albums all have done brilliant but i must admit i was hoping the sles would be higher i do think they could sell around the same aount next wek again though
June 15, 200817 yr 300k is excellent. Much better than I was expecting! Sales will also be fairly high for them next week too.
June 15, 200817 yr Author Duffy's year to date sales looks threatening :o they could easily be the best selling album in 3 or 4 weeks
June 15, 200817 yr 302k is amazing when you think they shifted 125k in one day. That means on average they sold 89k for the next two days. If this had been a monday release, i reckon it would have done 500k.
June 15, 200817 yr coldplay will end up been the years best seller easily enough i think Hmmm... I think you could be right but i wouldnt count Dido out just yet... her albums ALWAYS do amazing things...
June 15, 200817 yr very impressive sales for only three days. Its a shame that they didnt release monday really, would have seriously sold this week LMAO. :D
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