Coldplay made quite a splash with their new album Moon Music, and they’re getting credit where credit is due. The band’s latest record debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with their largest week in almost a decade, becoming their fifth album to hit No. 1 in the US.
Moon Music debuted at the top spot with 120,000 units, including 106,000 in album sales, plus 13,000 SEA units (equaling 16.71 million on-demand official streams), and 1,000 TEA units. This marks the band’s largest week on the Billboard 200 chart since 2015 when they earned 210,000 units with A Head Full of Dreams.
They also topped the chart with Ghost Stories (2014), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Viva La Vida (2008), and X&Y (2005). Despite scoring one of their largest weeks on the Billboard 200, A Head Full of Dreams never topped the chart and it actually debuted at No. 2 behind Adele’s 25.
Moon Music hit the shelves on October 4, and it produced singles “Feels Like I’m Falling in Love”, “We Pray”, and “All My Love”. In addition to the original album, Coldplay released two more editions – Full Moon Edition featuring ten bonus songs and Tour Edition featuring ten bonus tracks recorded during the Music of the Spheres World Tour, which became the second-highest-grossing tour of all time.
