Two million download Coldplay single in first week
AFP, May, 2008
LONDON (AFP) — Some two million people have downloaded British rock group Coldplay's new single "Violet Hill" since it was put on their website last week, their spokesman said Tuesday.
"In the past seven days, the single has been downloaded for free by a staggering two million people," he said. "It would have outsold the whole of last week's top 40 (singles) four times over."
The song, which went on sale in record stores Tuesday, is the first from their new 10-track album "Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends", due ...