Coldplay (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
First week sales of over 200,000 haven’t been enough for Coldplay to displace Adele from the top of the UK Album Chart.
It means ‘A Head Full Of Dreams‘ is the first Coldplay record not to debut at number one in the UK, ending a run which stretches back to 2000’s ‘Parachutes‘.
Pretty much the rest of the Top 20 is made up of underwhelming festive stocking fillers, such as Michael Buble, Kylie Minogue, Alexander Arm…zzzz.
UK Album Chart, Top 20:
1/ Adele – ’25’
2/ (new) Coldplay – ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’
3/ Elvis Presley – ‘If I Can Dream’
4/ Justin Bieber – ‘Purpose’
5/ Jess Glynne – ‘I Cry When I Laugh’
6/ Little Mix – ‘Get Weird’
7/ Jeff Lynne’s ELO – ‘Alone In The Universe’
8/ Rod Stewart – ‘Another Country’
9/ One Direction – ‘Made In The AM’
10/ Enja – ‘Dark Sky Island’
11/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
12/ Olly Murs – ‘Never Been Better’
13/ Alexander Armstrong – ‘A Year Of Songs’
14/ (new) Fleur East – ‘Love, Sax and Flashbacks’
15/ Michael Buble – ‘Christmas’
16/ Cilla Black – ‘The Very Best Of’
17/ The Corrs – ‘White Light’
18/ Kylie Minogue – ‘Kylie Christmas’
19/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
20/ James Bay – ‘The Chaos and The Calm’