'Viva La Vida' has second-best debut of '08

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USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live found this 6/25/2008 on www.usatoday.com [flag]
will debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart with over 720,000 copies sold in its first week, the second-best opening week of 2008, according to the trade magazine's website. 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 ... [link]

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Viva la Coldplay
Published 6/25/2008 by Alison Maxwell at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
Viva la Coldplay Like this story? Share it with Yahoo! Buzz This should come as no big surprise, but Coldplay's Viva la Vida is the No. 1 album . It's also the second-best debut of the year, right behind Lil Wayne's monster hit Tha Carter III , which went platinum in a week. Posted at 11:41 PM/ET, June 24, 2008 in ...

COLDPLAY IS HOT, HOT, HOT
Published 6/25/2008 by Arasto at Faded Youth Blog
... This should come as no big surprise, but it does — Coldplay’s Viva la Vida is the No. 1 album with over 720 000 copies sold in its first week. ...

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