Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

...at the top. Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends toppled the rap star's Tha Carter III last month after Lil Wayne debuted his new release at the top of the Billboard charts with over one million first-week sales. But now Lil...

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...were Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, who released the collaborative album Raising Sand. Album of the year contenders included Coldplay (Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends); rapper Lil Wayne (Tha Carter III); Robert Plant & Alison...

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...200 with more than 1 million copies sold, rapper Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III returns next week to the chart's peak, outselling Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - which has occupied the #1 spot for the last two weeks - by...

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...2.87 million copies. Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Taylor Swift's Fearless and Kid Rock's Rock 'n' Roll Jesus were the only other albums to sell 2 million in 2008, compared with eight in 2007. •Swift, whose...

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...and rockabilly standards released two years ago. They beat out Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" and Coldplay's "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," the top-two selling albums last year. "I'd like to say, I'm bewildered," Plant said. "In...

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...moving from #49 to #32. Metallica's Death Magnetic, Ludacris' Theater of the Mind, Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman also posted double-digit percentage bumps. And perhaps owing to their...

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...Best Rap Song (for "Lollipop"). Another blockbuster act, Coldplay, scored seven nominations, including Album of the Year (for "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends"), Record of the Year, and Song of the Year (for "Viva La Vida"), and...

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...copies. But that just wasn't enough for him to hold onto Billboard's pole position, as Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends generated first-week scans of more than 721,200, bumping Wayne's opus to the chart's #2 slot. The...

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...contender. Wayne and his latest LP, Tha Carter III, lead the pack with a total of eight nominations, while one of the year's other biggest sellers, Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, garnered seven nods. Jay-Z, Ne-Yo...

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