Coldplay Hit No 1 With Highest Sales For UK Act In Three Years
Coldplay have scored their tenth No 1 album with Moon Music, which sold more than any UK act in three years to reach the top spot.
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According to The Official Charts Company, Moon Music sold 237,000 UK chart units to reach the summit. This is the biggest first week for a British album since Adele’s 30 went straight to No 1 with 261,000 chart units in 2021. Moon Music is second this year only to Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which sold 270,000 UK chart units in its first seven days on sale. Of Moon Music‘s total sales, 209,000 were of physical albums.
Coldplay now draw level with ABBA, Michael Jackson and Queen on the list of acts with the most No 1 albums in the UK. The band previously topped the charts with Parachutes (2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), X&Y (2005), Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Ghost Stories (2014), A Head Full of Dreams (2015), Everyday Life (2019) and Music of the Spheres (2021).
Moon Music features the recent singles We Pray and feelslikeimfallinginlove. Each vinyl copy of the album – produced by Max Martin – is made out of nine recycled PET-plastic bottles that have been recovered from waste, which will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to traditional 140g vinyl.
Likewise, CD editions of the record are the first in the world to be released on ‘EcoCD’, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
There is also a limited ‘Notebook Edition’ of the record, which comes as a casebound hardback book, a replica of Chris Martin’s original studio notebook. It contains 28 pages of notes, lyrics and illustrations from the album’s creative process.