Coldplay album No1 in US Billboard chart

Coldplay album X&Y has shot to number one in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The band’s third album already debuted in the top spot in the UK charts on Sunday.

The last time a UK artist had a simultaneous US and UK number one was in November 2000, with 1, the album of hits from the Beatles.

The last studio album to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic was Radiohead’s Kid A in October 2000.

X&Y, which follows on from Coldplay’s first two albums Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head, has become the second-fastest selling of all time in the UK after 464,000 copies flew off the shelves.

It has scooped 20 number one’s to date around the world in places like Mexico, Italy, Hong Kong, France, Chile, Austria and Australia.

EMI was hit financially because of delays to the scheduled release of X&Y, and the delay forced EMI to issue a profit warning.