Coldplay jump from No. 37 to No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 (dated October 19), became the top US music act for the first time in the chart's 10-year history, thanks to the group's new album, Music of the Moon.
The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key music consumption metrics: album sales, track sales, radio play and streaming. Using a methodology that includes these metrics, the chart provides a weekly multidimensional ranking of artists' popularity.
Released Oct. 4 on Parlophone/Atlantic Records, Moon Music debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 120,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week, according to Luminate. The team gains their fifth leader, then Ghost stories (2014), Xylotos Mill (2011), Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends (2008) and X&Y (2005).
Coldplay also debuts a song from the set on the Billboard Hot 100: “We Pray” featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and Tini at No. 87. The band adds its 25th career chart hit and second this year, after The new LP's lead single, “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” peaked at No. 81.
Coldplay are the third group to top the Artist 100 chart this year, following TOMORROW X TOGETHER in April and Stray Kids in August. The last non-K-pop group to reach No. 1 was Slipknot in October 2022.
Rounding out the Artist 100's top five, Sabrina Carpenter sinks to No. 2, after four weeks at the top. Taylor Swift is No. 3. Chappell Roan drops 2-4. and Morgan Wallen falls to 4-5.
Also on the chart, Milli Vanilli debuts at No.88 thanks to renewed interest in the duo's catalog as three of the pair's songs appear in Ryan Murphy's new Netflix anthology series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Their EP 4, Which includes four of the actor's four seminal hits, including three Hot 100 No.
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