A little bit from Billboard chart alert:
Coldplay Is Hot As "X&Y" Debuts At No. 1
With 737,000 units, Coldplay earns its first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 and the second-best opening week of the year ... Black Eyed Peas and the White Stripes both see new chart highs and their best sales weeks ... Shakira sets a record for the best debut for a Spanish-language album ... The latest Vans Warped tour compilation moshes its way onto the chart, as does a number of acts that will play the traveling show ... Paul Anka opens at No. 2 on Top Jazz Albums with his unique rock covers set ... Pat Benatar lands her highest-charting album since 1991 and her best sales week since Billboard began using Nielsen SoundScan data that same year.
* Coldplay blasts onto The Billboard 200 at No. 1 with its "X&Y" selling 737,000 units. The massive debut week gives the band its first chart-topping album and its best sales frame ever. This is 2005's second-biggest debut, following 50 Cent's 1.14 million opener with "The Massacre" in March. It's also the biggest week for a rock band since U2 debuted with 840,000 units when "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was released in November 2004. In fact, since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991, only seven rock bands have managed bigger sales weeks (U2, Guns N' Roses, Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Creed and the Beatles).
COLDPLAY
* The band recorded concerts that aired on MTV (June 5) and AOL Music (June 10), and a "VH1 Storytellers" that debuted June 8. On May 12, the quartet played the season finale of "Saturday Night Live." Additionally, it took part in the Coachella festival April 30 and played a series of semi-surprise gigs throughout April and early May. The album's first single, "Speed of Sound," gathered 25.3 million in radio audience for the week ending June 12, according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. It was the most-played video at VH1 with 54 airings, and was ranked top 10 at MTV and MTV2. The single is No. 10 this week on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album was available as the first-ever pre-order at the Apple iTunes Music Store beginning in mid-May. The pre-order edition at iTunes included two exclusive bonus tracks. In turn, the set moved a staggering 60,000 units as a digital album in its first week. (That number combines all digital reporters, including iTunes and its pre-orders.) The 60,000 total instantly makes "X&Y" the year's second best-selling digital album, next to Jack Johnson's "In Between Dreams" (79,000) ... About 15% (113,000) of the first-week sales for "X&Y" came from nontraditional music sellers, including coffee giant Starbucks ... The last time a Capitol act was No. 1 on The Billboard 200 was when the Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs" opened in the top slot in June 2004 ... Over on Top Pop Catalog albums, the Coldplay party continues. The band has the top two spots on the chart with "A Rush of Blood to the Head" (25,000) and "Parachutes" (15,000). The last time an act claimed the top two was in the chart dated March 15, 2003, when the Dixie Chicks did it with "Fly" and "Wide Open Spaces."
Coldplay Is Hot As "X&Y" Debuts At No. 1
With 737,000 units, Coldplay earns its first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 and the second-best opening week of the year ... Black Eyed Peas and the White Stripes both see new chart highs and their best sales weeks ... Shakira sets a record for the best debut for a Spanish-language album ... The latest Vans Warped tour compilation moshes its way onto the chart, as does a number of acts that will play the traveling show ... Paul Anka opens at No. 2 on Top Jazz Albums with his unique rock covers set ... Pat Benatar lands her highest-charting album since 1991 and her best sales week since Billboard began using Nielsen SoundScan data that same year.
* Coldplay blasts onto The Billboard 200 at No. 1 with its "X&Y" selling 737,000 units. The massive debut week gives the band its first chart-topping album and its best sales frame ever. This is 2005's second-biggest debut, following 50 Cent's 1.14 million opener with "The Massacre" in March. It's also the biggest week for a rock band since U2 debuted with 840,000 units when "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was released in November 2004. In fact, since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991, only seven rock bands have managed bigger sales weeks (U2, Guns N' Roses, Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Creed and the Beatles).
COLDPLAY
* The band recorded concerts that aired on MTV (June 5) and AOL Music (June 10), and a "VH1 Storytellers" that debuted June 8. On May 12, the quartet played the season finale of "Saturday Night Live." Additionally, it took part in the Coachella festival April 30 and played a series of semi-surprise gigs throughout April and early May. The album's first single, "Speed of Sound," gathered 25.3 million in radio audience for the week ending June 12, according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. It was the most-played video at VH1 with 54 airings, and was ranked top 10 at MTV and MTV2. The single is No. 10 this week on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album was available as the first-ever pre-order at the Apple iTunes Music Store beginning in mid-May. The pre-order edition at iTunes included two exclusive bonus tracks. In turn, the set moved a staggering 60,000 units as a digital album in its first week. (That number combines all digital reporters, including iTunes and its pre-orders.) The 60,000 total instantly makes "X&Y" the year's second best-selling digital album, next to Jack Johnson's "In Between Dreams" (79,000) ... About 15% (113,000) of the first-week sales for "X&Y" came from nontraditional music sellers, including coffee giant Starbucks ... The last time a Capitol act was No. 1 on The Billboard 200 was when the Beastie Boys' "To the 5 Boroughs" opened in the top slot in June 2004 ... Over on Top Pop Catalog albums, the Coldplay party continues. The band has the top two spots on the chart with "A Rush of Blood to the Head" (25,000) and "Parachutes" (15,000). The last time an act claimed the top two was in the chart dated March 15, 2003, when the Dixie Chicks did it with "Fly" and "Wide Open Spaces."
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