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FEATURE: GOING UP IN THE WORLD.
Coldplay's latest album topped the list of UK successes around the globe in 2008 with 5.7m international sales and number ones in more than 35 countries. All of the Top 10 albums sold more than 1m units abroad and record labels are hopeful of more to come in 2009
International
By Paul Williams
Coldplay's latest studio set has repeated the success of its predecessor by breaking through 5m overseas sales in its opening year to finish as the UK's biggest-selling album internationally of 2008.
The EMI release Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends sold 5.7m units outside the UK last year, the highest sale achieved in a calendar year by a UK-sourced album since the band's own third studio effort X&Y topped 2005's list with 6.2m overseas sales.
The high global figures for the latest Coldplay album come at a time when the biggest worldwide sellers are typically generating fewer sales than their equivalents did previously. This trend at least partially reflects a sharp drop in albums business in the dominant US market where sales there fell last year by around 14%.
"It's an amazing figure in the current climate and the record is still rolling," says EMI Music Labels, North America and UK president of A&R Nick Gatfield. "There are still touring plans and we like to believe we could get the record up to 7m or 8m."
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