#Coldplay clocks full#

Paradise certainly took its time to become the group’s second chart-topper, it finally reached Number 1 on its tenth week in the chart, knocking off Military Wives and Gareth Malone's Wherever You Are to be the first Number 1 of 2012.

#Coldplay clocks full#

See the full Top 100 from the week Viva La Vida was Number 1. The title track from the band’s fourth studio album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends is their second biggest song of all time, including 896,000 downloads and 123.5 million streams. The band’s first Number 1 was a long time coming – after nine Top 10s, the guys were definitely due a chart-topper. Their ‘conscious uncoupling’ would follow nine years later, but the song is still a huge crowd-pleaser, with 112.6 million streams since records began in 2014, including 9.5 million from this year alone. One of the band’s signature ballads, Fix You was written by frontman Chris Martin for his then-wife Gwyneth Paltrow following her father's death.

Its 100,000 downloads and 19.5 million streams see it land in 19th slot on Coldplay's all-time rundown. Perhaps surprisingly, despite being their second-biggest selling song on physical format, with 101,000 copies sold, In My Place hasn't really found longevity in the digital era. The lead single from the band's much-anticipated second album A Rush of Blood to the Head, In My Place brought Coldplay their then-highest chart peak, going straight in at Number 2 in August 2002 (blocked from the top spot by former Pop Idol contestant Darius, with Colourblind). Yellow has shifted 1.63m across all formats, including 170,000 CD single sales, 430,000 downloads and 118 million streams – not a bad performance in the digital era considering it came out in 2000. Coldplay’s breakthrough hit went straight in at Number 4 and was taken from their debut album Parachutes, which has sold 2.77m UK chart sales. This is where it all really began, with their very first Top 10 in 2000. Before the full Top 20, a few highlights: Yellow (2000) To mark Coldplay's return, we crunched the numbers and now count down their biggest songs in the UK, based on physical and digital sales, and streams. But which of their big ones come out on top when sales and streams are combined? MORE: Coldplay's Official Chart history in full To date they’ve scored 24 Top 40 hits, including 18 Top 10s in the process, two of which were chart-toppers. But Coldplay aren't just an albums act – they're still managing to rack up hit singles. The track is their first in two years, since 2019's Everyday Life, which became their eighth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.