Billboard has announced that Coldplay’s tenth album, Moon Music, has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it the band’s fifth US No. 1 album (more than any other UK solo act or group this century).
The album earned 120k equivalent album units, giving Coldplay their highest US first week total since 2015’s A Head Full Of Dreams and their first Billboard 200 No, 1 since 2014’s Ghost Stories.
More than 106k of Moon Music’s Billboard total came for album sales, underlining the popularity of the groundbreaking initiatives employed by the band to make the album’s physical release as sustainable as possible.
Moon Music is the world's first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy made from 9 recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. Additionally, the band collaborated with The Ocean Cleanup to create the Notebook Edition LP, for which the rPET comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala. The standard CD editions of Moon Music were also the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
In a further effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music (both EcoRecord LP and EcoCD) is strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord LP products are individually numbered.
Moon Music also landed at No. 1 on the UK’s official album chart, where it outsold the rest of the Top 40 combined, with its 237,000 first week sale the highest by a group since One Direction in 2013.
This also made Coldplay the first group to simultaneously top the US and UK album charts since 2016. Moon Music has also topped the official charts in countries including Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The album can be purchased / downloaded / streamed here.
The news follows Friday’s onsale for the band’s 17-show 2025 North America stadium run, where all 700,000 tickets sold out in a single day. That takes total ticket sales for the band’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres World Tour - the highest attended tour by a group in history - to over 12 million. More than 2 million of those sales came in the last three weeks, for 2025 shows in the UK, Asia and North America.
Last week also saw Coldplay become the first group ever to surpass 90 million monthly listeners on Spotify (where they were also the first to reach 60, 70 and 80 million monthly listeners).
The band celebrated the release of Moon Music with US performances on QVC and Saturday Night Live, followed by a special set last Monday for Sirius XM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY and a concert for the TODAY Show on Tuesday morning (after which they played a surprise popup set in Rough Trade Records).
The album, which was produced by Max Martin, contains August’s iTunes chart-topping single WE PRAY - with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & TINI - and June’s double MTV VMAs-nominated single feelslikeimfallinginlove, which reached Number 1 on both the UK’s airplay chart and the Official Big Top 40. A third single, All My Love, was released alongside the album, with a video filmed at a Las Vegas karaoke bar.
Chris Martin recently posted a video offering some insight into the album, saying: “I think what this album is about is a response to struggling with all the conflict within oneself, within myself, and also all the conflict outside, and working out what the best response is. And I think what Moon Music is trying to say is maybe love is the best response.”
Moon Music is Coldplay’s first album since 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, which spawned the US Number One single with BTS, My Universe, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music Of The Spheres has accumulated more than four billion streams.
