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Near-record sales for Coldplay
13/06/2005 11:16 - (SA)
London - Rockers Coldplay have shot to the top of the British album charts with new album X and Y, which has become the second-fastest selling title since equivalent figures began being collected nearly 15 years ago.
The four piece supplanted fellow Britons Oasis in the new chart, released late on Sunday, debuting at the number one spot.
According to a spokesperson for HMV, one of the country's biggest record shop chains, industry-wide figures showed the Coldplay album had sold almost half a million copies in the seven days since it was released.
This was the biggest first-week sale since similar figures began being compiled in the early 1990s, being beaten only by 1997 album Be Here Now, also by Oasis.
Oasis's latest offering, Don't Believe The Truth, was pushed into second spot by Coldplay, whose frontman Chris Martin is also famed for his marriage to United States (US) actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
The new album by minimalist US guitar-and-drums duo The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan came in at number three.
However, it was not all good news for Coldplay.
In the singles charts, a mobile-phone ringtone-based tune which kept Coldplay song Speed of Sound from the number one spot last month remained firmly in place at the top of the charts.
The ringtone reworking of Axel F, the theme to 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop, by Crazy Frog, was at number one for a third consecutive week.
- AFP
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