Coldplay captures its fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and first in over a decade, as Moon Music debuts atop the record (dated Oct. 19). The set launches with 120,000 equal album items earned, of which 106,000 are in conventional album gross sales. Each figures signify the most important week, by items and album gross sales, for the group since 2015.
Total, Moon Music marks the tenth high 10-charting effort for the band. The act beforehand led the record with Ghost Tales (2014), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Viva La Vida or Dying and All His Buddies (2008) and X&Y (2005).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Oct. 19, 2024-dated chart will probably be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Tuesday (Oct. 15). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often called Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Moon Music’s first-week items of 120,000, album gross sales comprise 106,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA items comprise 13,000 (equaling 16.71 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA items comprise 1,000. The group final garnered a bigger week, in both general items or album gross sales, with the debut body of 2015’s A Head Stuffed with Desires, which bowed with 210,000 items, of which 195,000 have been in conventional album gross sales.
The brand new album’s opening-week gross sales have been bolstered by its availability throughout a minimum of eight vinyl variants (together with two signed editions, and a Goal version with three bonus tracks) and in six CD variants (together with a signed version, and a “pocket book version” in collectible packaging with bonus voice notes) — all of which have been manufactured with eco-friendly initiatives. The set was additionally accessible in a minimum of 4 digital obtain variants. Of the digital editions, there have been two variations that every included 10 bonus tracks every. Coldplay’s official webstore provided the obtain editions at a reduction throughout launch week.
The album’s vinyl gross sales whole 29,000 for the week — Coldplay’s greatest gross sales week on vinyl ever.
The brand new album was preceded by the only “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” which reached No. 81 on the all-genre Billboard Scorching 100 chart in July. It additionally reached the highest 10 on Different Airplay and Grownup Pop Airplay, the act’s fifteenth and twelfth high 10 on these tallies, respectively.
The brand new album’s Oct. 4 launch was ushered in with a flurry of media seems to be, together with appearances and/or performances by the band or its frontman Chris Martin on CBS’ Sunday Morning (Sept. 29), QVC (Oct. 2), NBC’s The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon (Oct. 3), NBC’s Saturday Evening Dwell (Oct. 5) and NBC’s Right this moment (Oct. 8).
Notably, amongst British teams, Coldplay ties for the fourth-most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. Main the pack are The Beatles, with 19 leaders. The Rolling Stones are second, with 9, whereas Led Zeppelin is third, with seven No. 1s. Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Wings (counting albums billed to both Wings, or Paul McCartney and Wings) are tied with 5 No. 1s every.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy falls a spot to No. 2 (with 93,000 equal album items; down 8%) after 4 nonconsecutive weeks atop the record. It’s No. 1 on the Prime Streaming Albums chart for a sixth nonconsecutive week. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 2-3 on the Billboard 200 (56,000; down 12%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 (50,000; down lower than 1%), and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Smooth is stationary at No. 5 (50,000; up 1%).
Three former leaders are up subsequent, with Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division rising one spot to No. 6 (45,000 equal album items; up 1%), Put up Malone’s F-1 Trillion dips 6-7 (43,000; down 8%) and Future’s Mixtape Pluto falls 3-8 (40,000; down 28%).
Rounding out the highest 10 are Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, descending 8-9 (37,000 equal album items; down 2%), and Wallen’s former No. 1 Harmful: The Double Album, holding regular at No. 10 (32,000; down 2%).
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