Coldplay lands its second straight #1 album as Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends opens at #1. The album sold 721,000 copies in its first week, just a shade less than the group's first-week tally with its previous album, X&Y, which bowed with sales of 737,000 in June 2005. Coldplay is the first act with back-to-back albums that topped the 700,000 mark in sales the first week out since Kanye West did it with Late Registration in 2005 and Graduation in 2007.
In just one week, Viva La Vida has become the #10 best-seller so far in 2008. If it holds up through the rest of the year-and it probably will-it will become Coldplay's third straight studio album to finish among the year's top 10 sellers. A Rush Of Blood To The Head, released in late summer 2002, was the #10 album of 2003. X&Y was #6 for 2005.
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