Coldplay’s ‘Moon Music’ Debuts At No. 1 On US Billboard 200
Billboard has announced that Coldplay’s tenth album, Moon Music, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it the band’s fifth US No. 1 album – more than any other UK solo act or group this century.
The album earned 120k equivalent album units, giving Coldplay their highest US first week total since 2015’s A Head Full Of Dreams and their first Billboard 200 No, 1 since 2014’s Ghost Stories.
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More than 106k of Moon Music’s Billboard total came for album sales, underlining the popularity of the groundbreaking initiatives employed by the band to make the album’s physical release as sustainable as possible.
The record is the world’s first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy made from 9 recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. In addition, the band collaborated with The Ocean Cleanup to create the Notebook Edition LP, for which the rPET comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala. The standard CD editions of Moon Music were also the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
In a further effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of the album (both EcoRecord LP and EcoCD) is strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord LP products are individually numbered.
Moon Music also landed at No. 1 on the UK’s official album chart, where it outsold the rest of the Top 40 combined, with its 237,000 first week sale the highest by a group since One Direction in 2013. This also made Coldplay the first group to simultaneously top the US and UK album charts since 2016. The new album has also topped the official charts in countries including Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
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