Coldplay has again shown that they are still very popular since Moon Music, which is the band’s 10th album, has topped the UK charts. The album has been in released last week; it was bought more than the whole Top 40 list, which is cited by the Official Charts Company, 237,000 UK chart units. This makes it the biggest opening week for a British album since Adele’s 30 in 2021: 292,000 total equivalent album sales.
Moon Music, our 10th album, is finally here 🌈❤️♾️
— Coldplay (@coldplay) October 4, 2024
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Physical copies such as CDs and vinyl led the sales, contributing to a cumulative 209000 Moon Music record sales, which again owes to Coldplay’s dedicated fan base. Like the tracks “Feels Like I’m Falling In Love” and “We Pray” which just touched the charts on the Top 20 Singles Chart, physical sales of the album were the main source of its success.
Thanks to this success, Coldplay equals the legends ABBA, Michael Jackson, and Queen, who also recorded 10 number-one albums on the UK list. Only the Beatles stand ahead of it with 16 number-one albums in a lifetime record.
The band said thank you to everyone who supported the release of Moon Music in a post on social media after the charting. It truly means the world.
Promotion: That’s irrepressible. One has to name it; the promotional campaigns that Coldplay has adopted have been out of the ordinary. Coldplay’s Chris Martin posed as an inept busker named ‘Nigel’ on the Jimmy Fallon show, and the band also spent half an hour on the shopping channel QVC promoting the album and being silly. They also went on the Saturday Night Live and Today Show in the US and even sang with puppets in one of their segments.
They have not left that much unnoticed, and now new moon music is anticipated to reach the US Billboard top chart this week. If they pull it off again, Coldplay will be the first British band to manage such a feat since The 1975 in 2016.
Sabrina Carpenter at the record level Not only did the singles charts make it to the record books, but pop icon Sabrina Carpenter was also a record-breaking artist for the most weeks at number one by a female artist in that one year. Three of her hit songs “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste” have placed her at the top for 19 weeks, thus breaking the Olivia Newton-John record of 1978.
Vintage Hits Resurface In an interesting twist, two vintage tracks Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and Milli Vanilli’s “I’m Gonna Miss You” have re-entered the Top 40, thanks to Netflix’s true crime drama Monsters: This is a true story of the Lyle and Erik Menendez case. Both tracks featured in the series, with ‘Blame It On The Rain’ being used during the funeral of the real-life Menendez brother’s parents in 1989.
