Posted June 19, 200817 yr Coldplay Headed To No. 1 On Billboard 200, Hot 100 June 18, 2008, 6:20 PM ET On the heels of Lil Wayne's 1 million-plus debut sales week with "Tha Carter III," Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" (Capitol) will post similarly lofty numbers and bow at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 next week. The set leads Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart, released today (June 18), with unweighted first-day sales of 316,000 copies through the close of business yesterday. That is the third-biggest Tuesday Building Chart number registered since Nielsen launched the tally last September. Only Kanye West's "Graduation" (Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam) and Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown) racked up larger numbers, with 437,000 and 423,000, respectively. A source close to the new album expects "Viva La Vida" to finish the week with a number in neighborhood of 700,000 to 750,000. Coldplay's last album, 2005's "X&Y," debuted at No. 1 with 737,000 in its first full week and spent three weeks atop The Billboard 200. In that first week, 8.4% of its sales were digital, but all signs point to a much greater first-week digital share for "Viva La Vida." http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003817876
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