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COLDPLAY CROWNS U.K. CHARTS WITH HUGE DEBUT WEEK

October 11, 2024

Coldplay has the biggest sales week for a U.K. act in three years as Moon Music tops the Official Albums Chart with sales of 237k. The feat hasn't been equaled since Adele's 30 moved 261k in 2021.

 

Coldplay has the biggest sales week for a U.K. act in three years as Moon Music (Parlophone) tops the Official Albums Chart with sales of 237k. It posted the biggest first week for a British release since Adele’s 30 (Columbia) debuted at #1 in 2021 on 261k.

Moon Music is enjoying the second-biggest opening week this year, beaten only by Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (EMI), which shifted 270k this spring.

Coldplay's 10th studio album is also its 10th consecutive chart-topper. 

Elsewhere on today’s album chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet (Island) is up one to #2. Public Service Broadcasting has its third Top 10 LP, with The Last Flight (SO Recordings) landing at #3. James Bay is at #4 with Changes All the Time (EMI), while Radiohead offshoot The Smile secures its second Top 10 of 2024 and third overall as Cutouts (XL) lands at #7. Alison Moyet has her highest-charting release in 11 years; Key (Motley Music/Cooking Vinyl) debuts at #8.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, Carpenter's “Taste” scores its seventh consecutive week at the top, which means it's achieved the most ever weeks at #1 in a single year by a female act. Combined with the seven nonconsecutive weeks “Espresso” spent at #1 and the five tallied by “Please Please Please," Carpenter has now logged 19 weeks at the top in 2024. Olivia Newton-John takes second place with 16 weeks in 1978. Sabrina draws level with Ed Sheeran for the most weeks at #1 in a calendar year this century. “Taste,” once again the most-streamed track in the country, with 6m, matches Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” (Mercury/Republic) for the longest-running #1 of the year.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” (Atlantic/Interscope) is up to a new peak of #3. “Sailor Song” (Island) by Gigi Perez scores her a first U.K. Top 10 single after jumping five to #6. “Somedays” (Solotoko) by Sonny FoderaJazzy and D.O.D is up two to #8, Gracie Abrams rises eight to #11 with “I love you, I’m sorry” (Interscope) and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” (Island) vaults four to #13.

KSI and Trippie Redd have the week’s highest new entry, with “Thick of It” (Atlantic) debuting at #14.