Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' sells more than 720,000 copies in first week

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COLDPLAY'S new album "Viva La Vida" will debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart with more than 720,000 copies sold in its first week, the second-best opening week of 2008, according to the trade magazine's Web site.

Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" was the top album debut of the year after it sold a spectacular 1 million copies earlier this month.

Two back-to-back blockbuster sales are a boost to the sluggish music industry, which has had little to celebrate with declining sales.

"Viva La Vida" follows 2005's "X&Y," which also debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200, with 737,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That album sold 3.2 million copies in the United States.


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