Chris Martin ©live4ever
The 3 British super groups Coldplay, Oasis and Take That all managed to break records and score entries in the 2010 Guiness book of world records,
Coldplay’s two entries record the “Most downloaded free track of the week and “Best selling download album in the UK” while Oasis landed 22 successive Top 10 hits in the UK and now own the record for “Longest Top 10 UK chart run by a group”.
Take That’s 2009 comeback tour sold 600’000 within five hours and has earned them a place in the records with an entry for the “Fastest-Selling UK tour”.
British singer Alexandra Burke achieved two record entries for her single Allelulia, which sold a record 576,046 copies in the UK, topping Leona Lewis’s record in 2006.
Online download records suggest the increasing success of music purchased digitally. Leona Lewis’s single Bleeding Love sold a record 3.3 million downloads in the US.
Other record breaking artists include Sir Cliff Richard, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Britney Spears.
Spears is the youngest female artist in history to have five of her albums reach number 1.
Before Britney turned 20 years old in 2001, she had sold 37 million records around the world, earning her the title of all-time best-selling teenage artist.