October 13, 2024
(Atlantic) Billboard reports that Coldplay’s 10th album, Moon Music, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it the band’s fifth No. 1 album in the United States. (more than any other British solo act or group of this century). .
The album earned 120,000 equivalent album units, giving Coldplay their highest US opening week total since 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams and 2014’s Ghost Stories. It became the first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since then.
More than 106,000 of Moon Music’s total Billboard sales come from album sales, underscoring the popularity of the innovative approach the band has taken to make the physical release of albums as sustainable as possible. I am.
Moon Music also topped the UK’s Official Albums Chart, surpassing the rest of the Top 40 combined, with first-week sales of 237,000 copies being the group’s highest since One Direction in 2013.
This makes Coldplay the first group to top the US and UK album charts simultaneously since 2016. Moon Music also topped official charts in countries such as Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
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