Viva La Coldplay
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Here at Soundcheck, we love a good old-fashioned hit album as much as the next person. But they're few and far between these days. Coldplay sold more than 700,000 copies of "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" since its release last Tuesday. The album is expected to debut at No. 1 this week. We ask New York Times pop music editor Sia Michel why Coldplay seems immune to the sales slump that is plaguing other established artists.
Comments [1]
coldplay's first record (or first major record) is the same song over and over again. i don't get it.
that and they are the 'new U2', the way the strokes are the new mc5 and clap your hands say yeah are the new talking heads, and that other band is the new david bowie. and that is just a trend that needs to end, quite seriously. in that apple commercial, they even look like u2. i thought it was u2! and u2 isn't even that great.
as for their sales, lowest common denominator. it's not awful, it's completely inoffensive to almost anyone. why wouldn't they sell a lot of records?
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