Chris Martin, Coldplay (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Coldplay‘s ‘Ghost Stories‘ is the UK’s biggest selling album of 2014 so far, reports the Official Charts Company.
The band’s sixth studio LP has shifted around 375,000 copies since its release in May, and is immediately ahead of Paolo Nutini‘s ‘Caustic Love‘, which has sold 329,000 units.
Sam Smith‘s ‘In The Lonely Hour‘ and Paloma Faith‘s ‘A Perfect Contradiction‘ are other albums released this year to have made the Top 10, while records whose popularity has continued from last year into this include Arctic Monkeys‘ ‘AM‘ and ‘If You Wait‘, the debut release from London Grammar.
UK’s top selling albums of 2014 so far, Top 10:
1/ Coldplay – ‘Ghost Stories’
2/ Paolo Nutini – ‘Caustic Love’
3/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Halcyon’
4/ Paloma Faith – ‘A Perfect Contradiction’
5/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
6/ Pharrell Williams – ‘Girl’
7/ Bastille – ‘Bad Blood’
8/ London Grammar – ‘If You Wait’
9/ Beyonce – ‘Beyonce’
10/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’