Adele's 25 beats Coldplay's A Head Full Of Dreams to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart
They put up an admirable fight, but not even the power of Coldplay was enough to topple the mighty Adele from this week’s Official Albums Chart.
25 logs a third week at Number 1 with another mammoth week of sales, shifting 354,000 copies over the last seven days – giving Adele the highest third week sales for a Number 1 album since Take That’s The Circus, which logged 382,000 for its third week at Number 1 in 2008.
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It’s not all bad news for Coldplay though; while their latest collection A Head Full Of Dreams is their first studio album not to debut at Number 1, they score their strongest opening week since 2008’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, racking up sales of 236,000. Their last album, 2014’s Ghost Stories, debuted with 168,000 sales, and 2011’s Mylo Xyloto notched up 208,000 sales in its first week on sale.
Coldplay’s week one sales also give them the highest selling Number 2 album in five years, since Rihanna notched up 249,000 sales of Loud in December 2010.
Meanwhile, Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream is at Number 3 with combines sales of 105,000 this week, Justin Bieber’s Purpose is at 4, and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh logs a 16th consecutive week in the Top 10, holding at 5.
New entries and high climbers
X Factor runner-up Fleur East lands at Number 14 with her debut album Love, Sax and Flashbacks, Kylie Minogue’s Christmas album jumps eight places to Number 18, and Bette Midler’s A Gift Of Love debuts at 26.
Elsewhere, Sigma’s debut album Life enters at Number 28, Josh Groban’s Stages zooms 54 places back into the Top 40 at 31, and Jools Holland and Ruby Turner’s collaborative album Jools & Ruby bows at 39.
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Paul L
Wow. I'm surprised Fleur's album missed the top 10.
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Bill X
Adele's slaygeness has no end! She is incomparable! Already 5x platinum :O
Davinia1
OMG enjoy it because what goes up must go down.And because record sales never are always the same ask Lady Gaga,Britney Spears😂😉
MALP1
Gravity is what you call it! But.. I don't know about Adele she might have wings to keep flying high and stay up a Billboard sign for longer. Get it "Billboard"lol
Davinia1
Enjoy this moment because it's never going to be the same believe me.
MALP1
I am enjoying and yet I believe it won't be the same but it will be even more next time around. Remember the Adele trilogy has passed. Give way for the prequels...!
Davinia1
No sweety she is not gonna do much better next time just wait and see.😉
Davinia1
😂 This is her time to shine.Almost every big artist has a moment to shine and then it ends
MALP1
Even the sun's time to shine will end... that is for sure but the more important question is When will Adele's time to shine will end? For sure not in the near future. She is already a legend... Vegas residency beckons which will still be glittering if not shining...! BTW she has announced her very massive North American Tour. Will you be there? Am sure we gonna be there 4 tickets Los Angeles kaching..!
MALP1
Yes I will wait and see but in the meantime enjoy and savor the moment because you ain't getting enough talent in the current pool of your stars.. yes including the pre-teens heart throb Taylor Swift.
Davinia1
No way I'd rather to be sewing my at home😜 much more interesting and waiting for Taylor Swift💋 to show up.
Davinia1
oh Talylor is awesome👍
MALP1
Indeed!!! Not!!
MALP1
You can't be sewing socks... You have the money to buy tickets right? Oh I forgot.. Adele's fans are skewed to the richer demographic. and they are homeowners so sewing of socks aint for them... LOL! Just joking.. I respect your preference so have a good day..!
Davinia1
For me she is awesome love her and of course Coldplay 👏👏💋
MusicStan_1997
Great to see Coldplay having high first week sales again, I was worried A Head Full Of Dreams would have lower sales than Ghost Stories. It's a great album, shame it didn't make it to No.1
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David Taylor
Queen 700 weeks Greatest hits 1
Guillermo F. Perez-Argüello
Since its release six weeks ago in the UK, Elvis Presley and the RPO's "If I can dream" has now reached 515,000 in sales thus making it the second biggest 2015 release in the UK, after Adele's "25" , the fourth biggest selling, also in 2015 (after the aforementioned "25", Ed Sheeran's "X" and Sam Smith's latest), as well as the only one in the top 5 (Coldplay's latest album ostensiby entering this most distinguished group, by year's end) by a non UK artist. That Presley was last seen leaving a recording studio on March 12, 1975, before any of these other artists was even born, or that he is the only one of the top 5 who only spent an hour on UK soil ( and that that was 55 years and 9 months ago, at Prestwick Aiport, in Scotland) or, finally, that he is the only one who regrettably is no longer amongst us, goes without saying...