Their third studio album, X&Y, has already sold more than 737,000 copies in the U.S. and 464,000 copies in England.
In America, it is the second best selling CD of the year, following 50 Cent’s release, The Massacre, last March.
In England, the CD takes the second highest seller spot for sales in a single week, after Be Here Now from Oasis in 1997.