Viva La Vida Makes Aussie Chart History

Sydney, AU. (Top40 Charts/ EMI MUSIC Australia) - If you like good stats and Coldplay, they're going hand in hand this week.

Coldplay continue to break records by putting an end to their Australian chart curse and holding the No 1 spot on the national ARIA album chart for the second week in a row. Their previous two No 1 albums 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' (2002) and 'X&Y' (2005) both only spent one week in the top spot before being dethroned (by far lesser albums we're sure).

'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends' is only the fifth of 15 albums to hit No 1 in '08 to have held on to the top spot for over a week - Timbaland (5 weeks), Jack Johnson (6 weeks), Andre Rieu (2 weeks) and Usher (2 weeks) were the other acts with multiple weeks at the top.

We're not the only country lapping up the new Coldplay album. 'Viva La Vida' has reached No 1 in 33 countries including the UK, US and Japan. It's also the biggest album pre-order in iTunes history, with 'Viva La Vida' also setting the record for highest first-week album sales ever on the iTunes Store worldwide.

On the singles front, this week also marks Coldplay's highest ever Australian singles chart result with title track 'Viva La Vida' moving to No 2. Their previous highest single chart was 'Yellow' which peaked at No 5 in February 2001. 'Viva La Vida' is also the No 1 most added song at radio.
Further to that, Coldplay have 4 singles in the Top 100 this week along with all 4 of their studio albums in the Top 100.