Coldplay’s “Moon Music” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart

Coldplay’s fifth number-one album on the Billboard 200 is the first in more than a decade. moon music debuted at number one on the chart (dated October 19). The album debuted with 120,000 equivalent album sales, 106,000 of which came from traditional album sales. Both figures represent the band’s highest sales and album sales in a single week since 2015.

comprehensive, moon music Marking the band’s tenth top ten hit on the charts. The bill previously topped the list ghost story (2014), Milo Sirotto (2011), Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) and XY (2005).

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of moon musicFirst week sales were 120,000 copies, album sales were 106,000 copies (it was the best-selling album of the week and No. 1 in top album sales), and SEA sales were 13,000 copies (equivalent to 16.71 million official on-demand streams of the series’ songs) ) and TEA units include 1,000. The band had an even bigger year last week in both overall and album sales, with its 2015 debut album Head full of dreamsended with sales of 210,000 copies, 195,000 of which were traditional album sales.

The new album’s first-week sales are helped by at least eight vinyl variants (including two signed editions and a Target version with three bonus tracks) and six CD variants (including a signed edition and a “notebook edition”) with Collectible packaging, comes with a voice message) – all made with environmentally friendly initiatives. The set also comes in at least four digital download versions. There are two digital versions, each containing 10 bonus tracks. Coldplay’s official webstore offers downloadable versions at a discount during release week.

The album’s vinyl sales for the week totaled 29,000, making it Coldplay’s biggest vinyl sales week ever.

The new album was preceded by the single “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” which ranked No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July. It also made the top ten for Alternative Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay, ranking the show at No. 15 and No. 12 respectively on those charts.

The new album was released on October 4 and attracted widespread media attention, including appearances and/or performances by the band or its lead singer, Chris Martin, on CBS. sunday morning (September 29), QVC (October 2), NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (October 3), NBC saturday night live (Oct. 5) and NBC’s today (October 8).

Notably, among British bands, Coldplay ranked joint fourth on the Billboard 200 chart. The Rolling Stones ranked second with a total of nine No. 1s, and Led Zeppelin ranked third with seven No. 1s. Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Wings (counting albums released by Wings or Paul McCartney and Wings) tied for No. 1 with five each.

Sabrina Carpenter short and sweet After four weeks at the top of the charts, the album dropped to No. 2 (93,000 album equivalents; down 8%). It spends its sixth week at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart. Chapel Roan’s The Rise and Fall of the Midwestern Princess Morgan Wallen drops 2-3 spots on Billboard 200 (56,000; down 12%) do one thing at a time No. 4 (50,000; down less than 1%), while Billie Eilish’s Hit me hard, hit me softly Stable at No. 5 (50,000; up 1%).

Next up are three former leaders, including Taylor Swift tortured poets department Post Malone’s album moves up one spot to No. 6 (45,000 equivalent album units; up 1%) F-1 trillion down 6-7 (43,000; down 8%), while Future’s mixtape pluto Down 3-8 (40,000; down 28%).

Noah Kahan joins the top 10 stick seasondropped 8-9 (equivalent to 37,000 album units; down 2%), as well as Warren’s former No. 1 Danger: Double Albumfirmly ranked 10th (32,000 people; down 2%).

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