Can 1st week sales of new Coldplay album (X&Y) match those of HTDAAB?

[claytons edge]

Although i like coldplay,they seem to be getting far more airplay than they merit,but they are only in their late twenty's.It would be interesting to see if U2 brought out 'fix you' what the response from various radio station's would be.U2 have to battle the odd's because of their age,which is extremly unfair,if chris martin can write a song like SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN when in his 40's i would be amazed and pleasently so

[ybird3k]

seeing as coldplay will never be able to change their music / style, due to their lack of ability, another album or 2 and everone will (should) be bored of them.

[claytons edge]

Coldplay seem to be on their way to being the world's biggest band,especially if they get their next album out before U2 do,but by the time they hit late 30's they'll be struggling for airplay and that's 10 year's away,just imagine what bono and the boy's will have to do then to get on radio

[edge3]

Originally posted by ybird3k


41%!!,

could that be due to the huge amoutn of airplay their new single 'fix you' is getting?

i think it's 41% : X&Y sold around 33K last week, the James Blunt album sold 84,762 this week & that outsold X&Y by 81.4%.

X&Y definitly increased this week though & Fix You does indeed seem to be helping.

[STING2]

Originally posted by claytons edge
Coldplay seem to be on their way to being the world's biggest band,especially if they get their next album out before U2 do,but by the time they hit late 30's they'll be struggling for airplay and that's 10 year's away,just imagine what bono and the boy's will have to do then to get on radio

Coldplay are far away from being the biggest band in the world when you consider their concert drawing ability. Here in the United States, they are struggling to sellout shows at venues that typically hold no more than 20,000 people. Their ticket prices are low, around 30 dollars to 35 dollars for most tickets. These are small numbers compared to U2 that charges an average of 100 dollars a ticket and sells out nearly every venue on the day tickets are put on sell. U2 have just completed the highest GROSSING tour in European history as well as the fastest selling tour in European history. In addition, the current results of the Arena tour in North America show that the band should have been booked in Stadiums here. While Coldplay did play some big shows in the UK, I've heard their stadium show in the Netherlands had less than 30,000 people.

Coldplay may be close to equaling U2 in album sales of the latest released album, but when it comes to concert drawing power, when attendance and then price are considered, U2 is ahead of Coldplay in North America by a ratio of 10 to 1, and in Europe its probably at least 5 to 1 if not more.

[claytons edge]

sting2 i said their on the way and let's be straight they are,not now,but if U2 are bigger than coldplay in 4 year's i'll be amazed,so there you go and if your being honest so will you

[fedeu2]

Hmm, I have a friend who was at Live 8 and he told me that when Coldplay went on stage the public response was nothing like when U2 came out. By the way, Coldplay performance sucked.
I like Coldplay but as others have already stated, they´re so overrated. Then again, Radiohead (who I like a lot) are also kind of overrated by the UK media so go figure.

Originally posted by ybird3k


41%!!,

could that be due to the huge amoutn of airplay their new single 'fix you' is getting?

i think that coldplay are the most over rated band of all time. they are nothing special, but every1 (in the UK) is treating them as if there the biggest band there has ever been.

[fedeu2]

I think Coldplay will be a flash in the pan much like Oasis were back in the mid-late nineties.
It´s only their third album and there are already signs of artistic stagnation, again, very similar to Oasis´Be here now.

Originally posted by claytons edge
sting2 i said their on the way and let's be straight they are,not now,but if U2 are bigger than coldplay in 4 year's i'll be amazed,so there you go and if your being honest so will you

[STING2]

Originally posted by claytons edge
sting2 i said their on the way and let's be straight they are,not now,but if U2 are bigger than coldplay in 4 year's i'll be amazed,so there you go and if your being honest so will you

In four years time, Coldplay will have just started been on tour for a few months for the next album that comes out after X&Y. It took Coldplay almost 3 years to follow up AROBTTH. The point being, one more album and tour are not going to vault Coldplay past U2, especially when U2's concert drawing power is ahead of Coldplay's by a margin of 10 to 1.

Right now, a band like Green Day is ahead of Coldplay. Green Day's latest album has sold more than any Coldplay album and while they charge roughly the same price for concerts, Green Day sells out and has moved to Stadium sized venues in some of the big cities. But even Green Day has a very long way to go if they want to be the biggest band in the world. Sure, both artist are selling enough albums of the current release, but concert drawing ability is light years behind what it should be if they really want to be in contention for the "title". Plus, its going to take a lot more than just one album and tour post X&Y/American Idiot for these two bands to close such a massive gap.

[claytons edge]

STING2 everybody know's U2 are the concert draw and they will continue to that for 4-5 year's at most with top class material,but when it come's to selling album's coldplay will win,that's all i'm saying,simply because of the industry,U2 need something massive now,coldplay don't.It's 27 something's against 44 something's,you put that to a radio producer an he'l laugh

[edge3]

Originally posted by edge3


i think it's 41% : X&Y sold around 33K last week, the James Blunt album sold 84,762 this week & that outsold X&Y by 81.4%.

X&Y definitly increased this week though & Fix You does indeed seem to be helping.

...correction (i knew i'd made a mistake) : X&Y increased by around 17% this week in the UK to around 46,500. Last week it sold around 40,000.

[Zoovation]

Hitsdailydouble.

14.95%

X&Y 4,723

#1 has only 10,610

It seems that overall sales will be very low this week in the U.S (if the sales from hits will be confirmed).

So, X&Y will probably sell 30k or more if it continues like that. What was the result of the bomb?

[fedeu2]

U2 will remain the first or second top concert seller (only the RS can compete with them) for many years to come regardless their next studio album is a masterpiece or sucks big time (this would never happen though). Actually, until the day they call it quits.

As for the generation gap, it´s not that Coldplay are so young you know, Martin et al are 28 now. At the time of their next record they will be 30 something, about the same age of U2 when AB came out. And consider that was several years later after becoming the biggest band in the world, something Coldplay has yet to achieve.
So, paraphrasing good old Mick, "time is not on their side".

Originally posted by claytons edge
STING2 everybody know's U2 are the concert draw and they will continue to that for 4-5 year's at most with top class material,but when it come's to selling album's coldplay will win,that's all i'm saying,simply because of the industry,U2 need something massive now,coldplay don't.It's 27 something's against 44 something's,you put that to a radio producer an he'l laugh

[Zoovation]

Hitsdailydouble again:

29.93%

X&Y #20 with 11,033

So, i will be about 30-35k at the end.

The bomb sold 34,370 in Week 11. So it seems that sales of X&Y will be equal to those of the bomb in the US which is a good news.

[ybird3k]

Originally posted by Zoovation
Hitsdailydouble again:

29.93%

X&Y #20 with 11,033

So, i will be about 30-35k at the end.

The bomb sold 34,370 in Week 11. So it seems that sales of X&Y will be equal to those of the bomb in the US which is a good news.

now 48%
X&Y 18,278

ye it is good news, but X&Y normally does a bit better during the last 25% on hits.

hopw much is Bomb still ahead of X&Y in the US?

[Zoovation]

I don't know, maybe Soldatti could give us the sales.

[Soldatti]

I will post the totals tomorrow.

[ybird3k]

hits, final

#11 (7) coldplay +1%, 59,821

does anyone know why the killers had a 77% increase, and also greenday had a 33% increase?

[Zoovation]

That's a lot for Coldplay.

[claytons edge]

Could anyone please tell me how many albums coldplay have now sold in the U.S?