X&Y

This article is about the album. For the British film, see X+Y. For the set of Pokémon games, see Pokémon X and Y. For other uses, see XY.

X&Y
Standard edition cover[a]
Studio album by
Coldplay
Released6 June 2005 (2005-06-06)
Recorded27 January 2004 – January 2005
Studio
Genre
Length62:30
Label
Producer
Coldplay chronology
Live 2003
(2003) 		X&Y
(2005) 		The Singles 1999–2006
(2007)
Singles from X&Y
  1. "Speed of Sound"
    Released: 11 May 2005
  2. "Fix You"
    Released: 5 September 2005
  3. "Talk"
    Released: 19 December 2005
  4. "The Hardest Part"
    Released: 3 April 2006

X&Y is the third studio album by British band Coldplay, released on 6 June 2005 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States. Produced by Coldplay and producer Danton Supple, the album was recorded during a turbulent period for the band, during which their manager and creative director, Phil Harvey, briefly departed.[3] Producer Ken Nelson was originally tasked with producing the record; however, many songs written during his sessions were discarded due to the band's dissatisfaction with them. The album's cover art combines colours and blocks to represent the title in Baudot code.

The album contains twelve tracks, divided into respective halves labeled "X" and "Y", and an additional hidden song, "Til Kingdom Come", which is listed as "+" on the disc label and inside the record's booklet. It was originally planned for American country star Johnny Cash to record it with lead singer Chris Martin, but Cash died before he was able to do so.[4]

After facing high anticipation globally, X&Y received positive reviews overall and was a significant commercial success, reaching the number-one position on the charts of 32 countries,[5] including the United Kingdom (where it had the third-highest sales week in history at the time) and the United States (where it became Coldplay's first album to top the Billboard 200 chart). With 8.3 million copies sold worldwide, X&Y was the best-selling album of 2005, accumulating over 13 million units as of December 2012.[6] It spawned the singles "Speed of Sound", "Fix You", "Talk" and "The Hardest Part". Despite its success, the band's opinion of the album has soured over time, largely due to the turbulent dynamic they experienced during recording, as well as their disappointment in the final product.

Background

Coldplay announced details about X&Y in March 2004 while the album was being recorded. Their initial plans were to stay out of the public eye throughout the year. Lead singer Chris Martin stated, "We really feel that we have to be away for a while and we certainly won't release anything this year, because I think people are a bit sick of us." This plan was not carried out, because of the pressure their second album A Rush of Blood to the Head had induced; but they were trying "to make the best thing that anyone has ever heard".[7] Prior to the announcement, Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland and British record producer Ken Nelson had started recording demos while in Chicago. The band then entered a London studio in January 2004.[8]

Recording

The band spent all of 2004 producing X&Y.[9] The released album is the third version the band had produced during the recording sessions, and some have even considered it as their fifth album due to constant changes in track lists and re-recordings.[10] The band members were not satisfied with the output of their initial sessions with Nelson, who had produced the band's previous two albums, Parachutes (2000) and A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002). It also remains the only Coldplay album in which they had been through the creative process without Phil Harvey's "presence, influence and guidance".[11]

The initial set release date was late 2004, but was later pushed back to January 2005. As the new target date was approaching, the band again discarded songs, which they deemed "flat" and "passionless".[10] Sixty songs were written during these sessions, fifty-two of which were ditched.[12] The band started rehearsing the songs for a planned tour, but felt the songs sounded better live compared to their recorded versions: "We realized that we didn't really have the right songs and some of them were starting to sound better because we were playing them than they did on record, so we thought we better go back and record them again." Guitarist Jonny Buckland has said that the band had pushed themselves "forward in every direction" in making the album, but they felt it sounded like they were going backwards compared to their earlier works.[13]

Attempting to perfect their work, Coldplay had to "step it up a few notches and work hard at it to get it right".[10] The band chose Danton Supple, who mixed the bulk of A Rush of Blood to the Head, to oversee the production of X&Y.[14] When January went, the band had to finish the album; they were conscious of the pressure as "expectations for the record grew larger" and "completing it became tougher and tougher".[10] Finally, the band were settled with the song "Square One", which Martin has described as "a call to arms" and a "plea" to each of them "not to be intimidated by anything or anyone else". Once finished, the band felt like they could do their own songs and not have to think of anyone else's demands.[10] During this month, the band were into the final weeks of production and had put the finishing touches on the tracks.[14]

Drummer Will Champion later admitted that Coldplay did not rush to complete the album "because the prospect of touring again was so daunting that we felt we should take our time, and also we wanted to make sure that it was the best it could possibly be". According to him, the band had no deadline, which allowed them not to feel pressured into finishing something. Once a proper deadline was imposed onto the band, they became more productive than in previous sessions. At this juncture, the band had written "about 14 or 15 songs".[15] Martin added that the reason why they ended up late was that they "... kept [adding] finishing [touches to] the record until it was way too late ... [they] don't listen to it at the moment, because [they would] just find something to go back and change."[10] The late release of the album was blamed for a drop in EMI's share price. In response, Chris Martin said "I don't really care about EMI. I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."[16][17]

Composition

Music

Coldplay received permission from Kraftwerk to use the main riff from "Computer Love" for the track "Talk".

The music of X&Y consists of multi-layered production with heavy electronic influences, featuring the extensive use of synthesizers. Musical characteristics that contribute to the album's multi-layering and grandiosity include fast tempos (in contrast to the two previous albums), dynamic drum patterns, distorted guitar riffs, and driving basslines.

Coldplay have also cited various other influences in the album. That of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk is evident on the song "Talk", which borrows (with permission) its hook from 1981's "Computer Love", with the riff being played on electric guitar instead of on a synthesizer.[9] Also present is large electronic musical influences, from some of the likes of English musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno. Eno, who would later produce Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, also played backing synthesizer on the track "Low". The first single, "Speed of Sound", also takes inspiration from the drumbeat of English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song "Running Up that Hill".[18] According to Jon Pareles of The New York Times, who wrote a controversial article extensively criticizing the album, the band attempts to "carry the beauty of 'Clocks'" across the album, borrowing some of its features in songs like "Speed of Sound".[19] The opening track "Square One" also features the famous motif from Also sprach Zarathustra, known better as the title theme of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The three-note sequence is replicated in the song by distorted guitar riffs, with a backing synthesizer added for musical texture. The sequence also transitions as a part of the song's chorus, showcasing Chris Martin's trademark falsetto voice.

"Fix You" features an organ and piano sound.[20] The song starts with a hushed electronic organ ballad, including Martin's falsetto.[21] The song then builds with both an acoustic guitar and piano sound. The sound then shifts with a plaintive three-note guitar line, ringing through a bringing rhythm upbeat tempo. Its instrumentation is varied with the sound of church-style organs hovering throughout the background,[22] piano notes, acoustic and electric guitar riffs, drums, bass guitar, and a singalong chorus.[23] "The Hardest Part" features a faster piano ballad sound, and starts with a repeating two-note piano riff, and features an instrumentation of a singsong guitar.[24] It is mid-tempo, with a laid back, steady rhythm. The track ends with the band playing some repeated riffs as it fades out.[24] "Speed of Sound" is musically centered around an ornate keyboard riff and features a busy chorus,[25][26] during which the song builds into a huge drum beat surrounded by synthesized sounds. The song is upbeat, with a driving bassline and echoing, distorted guitar riffs being heard throughout. Kevin Devine from Hybrid Magazine wrote that Buckland's "gleaming guitar sound gives X&Y a euphonic radiance", and thematically, the album contains a "running thread of importance of trying, as well as the need for basic communication amongst the cacophony of confusion in the world".[27]

Lyrics

Lyrically, X&Y made an apparent shift from its predecessors, with many lyrics focused on a questioning and philosophical view of the world. On their previous works, Martin sang mostly in the first person "I", but here moves to the second person "you".[19] Accordingly, the songs on the album are a reflection of Martin's "doubts, fears, hopes, and loves" with lyrics that are "earnest and vague".[1]

Artwork and packaging

The Baudot code was used for X&Y's artwork.

The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton; Mark Tappin had previously worked for Coldplay on the covers for Parachutes and its associated singles. The image, which is visualised through a combination of colours and blocks, is a graphical representation of the Baudot code, an early form of telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to communicate. The code was developed by Frenchman Émile Baudot in the 1870s, and was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph communication.[28]

The alphabet of the code is presented in the liner notes of X&Y. The track listing, included on the booklet, CD, and back of the album, uses "X#" on tracks 1 to 6 and "Y#" on tracks 7 to 12, rather than the conventional track numbering system. Many pages in the booklet include photos of the band working on the album. The final page of the booklet contains the slogan "Make Trade Fair" in the Baudot code, a reference to the name of the international organisation which Chris Martin continues to support.[28] The band also dedicates the album to "BWP" in the liner notes; it stands for Bruce W. Paltrow, the late father of Martin's wife at the time, Gwyneth Paltrow. All singles released from the album feature their titles in the same code on their respective covers.[29]

Release and promotion

The Twisted Logic Tour promoted X&Y from 2005 to 2006.

X&Y was initially intended for a 2004 release, although early news reported it would not be released until 2005;[8] because of personal preferences, songs recorded in several sessions were scrapped and doing so had pushed the expected release date to January 2005. However, the new date went by and the band had to decide on another schedule. By early 2005 the album, rumoured to be called Zero Theory, had a target release date between March and May 2005.[14][30][full citation needed] By early April the band had finalised the track listing of the album.[31] The album was finally released on 6 June 2005 in the United Kingdom via record label Parlophone. It was issued on 7 June in the United States by Capitol Records. It has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. Capitol released a remastered version of the album in 2008, on two 180-gram vinyl records, as part of the "From the Capitol Vaults" series.

Around three months prior to the album release, Coldplay began performing several songs from X&Y during live performances. The band made a headlining performance at public radio station KCRW-FM's annual A Sounds Eclectic Evening, playing five new songs and some of their old favourites.[32]

The album has four main singles that were released internationally: "Speed of Sound", "Fix You", and "Talk" in 2005, and "The Hardest Part" in 2006. A promotional single, "What If", was released in June 2006 to radio stations in France and the French-speaking portions of Belgium and Switzerland.[33] A commercial CD was also released in Belgium and features the same B-side as "The Hardest Part" ("How You See the World" recorded live at Earls Court), which was released in other European markets as well as Japan and Australia. This single features the "Tom Lord-Alge Mix" as the A-side, which differs from the album version.[34]

The track "A Message" was featured in episodes of Electric Dreams, One Tree Hill, and Smallville. The hidden track "Til Kingdom Come" is featured in The Shield season 5 premiere, a season 1 episode of Jericho,[35] and in the superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).[36] In addition, Chris Martin performed an acoustic rendition of the track at the funeral of former Attorney General of Delaware Beau Biden in 2015, accompanied by a church organ.[37] The band also played "Fix You" together at Apple's memorial for Steve Jobs in 2011, alongside some of their other songs.[38][39]

Critical reception

Reviews

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[40]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blender[41]
Entertainment WeeklyB[42]
The Guardian[9]
NME9/10[43]
Pitchfork4.9/10[44]
Q[45]
Rolling Stone[46]
SpinB+[47]
The Village VoiceB[48]

X&Y received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 33 reviews.[40] Blender hailed it as Coldplay's "masterpiece."[41] NME described it as "confident, bold, ambitious, bunged with singles and impossible to contain," and added that it reinforces Coldplay as "the band of their time".[43] Q magazine found it "substantially more visceral and emotionally rewarding experience than both its predecessors."[45] James Hunter of The Village Voice said that it is remarkably "accomplished, fresh, and emotional".[49] Uncut assertively called it "an exceptional pop record".[40] Spin magazine's Mikael Wood praised Coldplay for "recasting their nerdy-student Britpop as Important Rock Music" without having to compromise Martin's unpretentious songwriting style.[47] In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised it as "a good record, crisp, professional, and assured, a sonically satisfying sequel to A Rush of Blood to the Head", stating it as "impeccable" and "a strong, accomplished album".[1]

In a less enthusiastic review for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne felt that Coldplay's attempt at more grandiose music works "only part of the time", even though he found their effort to mature commendable.[42] Rhyannon Rodriguez from Kludge wrote that the album feels "a little forced", describing the overall sounds as "overtly weak".[50] Alexis Petridis, writing in The Guardian, said that some of the songs are "mostly beautifully turned", but marred by lyrics that are "so devoid of personality that they sound less like song lyrics than something dreamed up by a creative at [an] ad agency".[9] Pitchfork's Joe Tangari called it "bland but never offensive, listenable but not memorable."[44] Mojo wrote that the album is "awash with cliches, non-sequiturs, and cheap existentialism; at times it all becomes nigh on unbearable".[40] In a negative review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau named X&Y "dud of the month" and called Coldplay a "precise, bland, and banal" band, giving the album a B grade.[48]

The band has received some criticism from some music critics for the similarities between the lead single, "Speed of Sound", and "Clocks", one of the band's most popular songs to date.[19][1][46] Kelefa Sanneh of Rolling Stone magazine was less contented with X&Y, writing it "is something less exciting" compared to A Rush of Blood to the Head that "was a nervy bid for bigness". Sanneh notes that the album is "the sound of a blown-up band trying not to deflate" and "a surprising number of songs here just never take flight". Despite such, he compliments the album for featuring "lovely ballads that sound, well, Coldplay-ish".[46]

Rankings

X&Y on select critic rankings
Publisher Year Listicle Rank Ref.
Blender 2005 Best of 2005 8 [51]
E! Online 2005 Replay 2005 – Top 20 CDs 10 [52]
Mojo 2005 Albums of the Year 2005 37 [53]
NME 2005 Best Albums of 2005 19 [54]
The Observer 2005 Top 100 Albums of 2005 18 [55]
Pazz & Jop 2005 The 2005 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll 32 [56]
Q 2005 Recordings of the Year 2005 1 [57]
2016 The Greatest Albums of the Last 30 Years Placed [58]
Radio X 2023 The 25 Best Albums of 2005 Placed [59]
Uncut 2024 The 500 Greatest Albums of the 2000s 378 [60]
WXPN 2021 All Time Greatest Albums 659 [61]

Accolades

Awards and nominations for X&Y
Year Award ceremony Category Result Ref.
2005 Fryderyk Awards Best Foreign Album Won [62]
GAFFA Awards Denmark International Album of the Year Won [63]
IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Awards Top 10 Best-Selling Foreign Albums Won [64]
Mercury Prize Mercury Prize Nominated [65]
MTV Europe Music Awards Best Album Nominated [66]
Premios Oye! English Album of the Year Won [67]
Q Awards Best Album Nominated [68]
Rockbjörnen Awards Best International Album Nominated [69]
RTHK International Pop Poll Awards Best-Selling Album Won [70]
2006 Brit Awards British Album of the Year Won [71]
Grammy Awards Best Rock Album Nominated [72]
Hungarian Music Awards Modern Rock Album of the Year Nominated [73]
Juno Awards International Album of the Year Won [74]
Meteor Music Awards Best International Album Nominated [75]
NRJ Music Awards International Album of the Year Nominated [76]
Žebřík Music Awards Best Foreign Album 1st place [77]

Commercial performance

Coldplay performing at Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisboa, Portugal during the Twisted Logic Tour, 23 November 2005.

Despite being leaked a week before release,[78] X&Y became the best-selling album of 2005 worldwide, accumulating over 8.3 million copies while the overall music industry saw a three per cent drop in sales.[79] By the end of 2006, it had already surpassed 9.9 million according to EMI.[80] The album debuted at number-one on the UK Albums Chart with 464,471 copies sold, becoming Coldplay's third consecutive chart-topping debut and the third biggest opening week of the country's history at the time.[81] As of 2011, X&Y is the sixth fastest-selling record in the United Kingdom, behind Take That,[81] the Beatles,[82] Ed Sheeran,[83] Oasis and Adele.[84] It has spent 13 consecutive weeks atop the European Top 100 Albums chart throughout 2005.[85]

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has also certified the record 9× platinum,[86] while Music Week ranked it at number nine in their "20 Biggest-Selling Albums of the 21st Century" list.[87] As of October 2021, the album sold over 2,800,000 copies in the United Kingdom, being the second best-selling Coldplay album, only behind A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002).[88]

In the United States, the American press considered X&Y a landmark achievement for the band.[89] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 737,000 copies sold despite the highly competitive retail week, marking the third highest first-week sales of the year in the country, behind American rappers 50 Cent (whose album, The Massacre, sold over one million units on its opening week) and Kanye West (who sold over 860,000 copies with his album Late Registration).[89] X&Y also remained at the top during three weeks, being the longest stay for a British group in the region since the Beatles between 2000 and 2001.[90] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has since certified the album 3× platinum for accumulated shipments of over three million units.[91] In Canada, the album debuted at number one with 105,000 copies, making it the biggest-selling debut of 2005 in Canada.[92] It was certified 5× Platinum in December 2008 for the shipments of over 500,000 copies.[93]

Legacy

Discussing the album on Pitchfork, Paul de Revere credited it with solidifying Coldplay's status as one of the biggest rock groups in the world.[94] On the other hand, Carl Williott from Idolator mentioned that "in the garage rock-reviving times of 2005, flaws were still a marker of authenticity for guitar-wielding acts, so the clinical and calibrated richness of X&Y was immensely uncool" upon release, which made the band a subject of backlash.[95] Stereogum's Ryan Leas said that "the original Coldplay template" reached its logical endpoint with the album, leading to the experimental approach for Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008).[96] In 2017, the album was added to V&A Museum's collection.[97]

The members of Coldplay have spoken several times over the years about their dissatisfaction of X&Y. Martin commented he wants to remake it.[98] He also stated that "[X&Y] has some good melodies and some good songs. But we failed, basically, on that whole album to get any of them produced right or edited right. It’s too long. There’s too many songs. I’m singing about the same thing too much".[99] "Speed of Sound" and "Talk" have been singled out as two songs members of the band dislike.[100] Conversely, the singer declared he is proud of "Fix You" because it helped the band through "a really difficult two years".[101] Bassist Guy Berryman also said X&Y would benefit from being edited again.[98] Guitarist Jonny Buckland described the American leg of the Twisted Logic Tour as the lowest point of their career, since they were "quite miserable" and "confused".[102]

Track listing

All songs written and co-produced by Coldplay (Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin). "Talk" includes Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos and Emil Schult as co-writers due to using a hook from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love".

X track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Square One"4:47
2."What If"4:57
3."White Shadows"5:28
4."Fix You"4:54
5."Talk"5:11
6."X&Y"4:34
Y track listing
No.TitleLength
7."Speed of Sound"4:48
8."A Message"4:45
9."Low"5:32
10."The Hardest Part"4:25
11."Swallowed in the Sea"3:58
12."Twisted Logic"5:01
+ (hidden track)
No.TitleLength
13."Til Kingdom Come"4:10
Total length:62:30
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."How You See the World" (only available on some Japanese first pressings)4:04

Notes

  • On the back cover, the tracklist is separated into two parts: "X" and "Y", with tracks 1–6 labelled as "X1" through "X6" and tracks 7–12 labelled "Y1" through "Y6".
  • "Til Kingdom Come" is a hidden track labelled only as "+" in the liner notes and on the CD silkscreen label. It is omitted completely from the back cover.
  • On the CD release, the song "Twisted Logic" ends at 4:31, followed by 30 seconds of silence; the silence on the track is omitted on streaming platforms.

Tour edition DVD

To coincide with Coldplay's tour of Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, the album was re-released in those territories as a "Tour Edition", which also includes all the B-side tracks and music videos of X&Y's singles on a bonus DVD:

Audio only section
No.TitleLength
1."Things I Don't Understand"4:55
2."Proof"4:10
3."The World Turned Upside Down"4:33
4."Pour Me" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)5:01
5."Sleeping Sun"3:09
6."Gravity"6:18
Audiovisual section
No.TitleLength
1."Speed of Sound" (video)4:28
2."Fix You" (video)4:54
3."Talk" (video)4:58
4."The Hardest Part" (video)4:51
5."X&Y Track-by-track interview"16:02

Tour edition CD & Special Dutch Edition

In addition a rare "Japan Tour Special Edition" (Cat. No. TOCP-66523) was released in 2006. This is the only "Tour Edition" which has the bonus disc as a CD (CD extra) (Cat. No. NCD-3013), and without Copy Control. All other "Tour Editions" have Copy Control protection. The track listing is exactly the same as in other "Tour Editions". Along with the tour editions, there was also a "Special Dutch Edition", released only in The Netherlands. It consisted of 2 discs, the first containing the entirety of X&Y, and the second containing the B-sides from the tour editions. No audiovisual content was included.

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic.[103]

Coldplay

  • Chris Martin – lead vocals; piano, acoustic guitar, keyboards, organ
  • Jonny Buckland – lead electric guitar, backing vocals (track 4)
  • Guy Berryman – bass guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer; harmonica (track 13)
  • Will Champion – drums, percussion, backing vocals; piano (track 13)

Production and design

  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Jon Bailey – assistant
  • Michael Brauer – mixing
  • Coldplay – audio production, photography, producer
  • Susan Dench – strings
  • Brian Eno – synthesizer (track 9)
  • Keith Gary – digital editing, pro-Tools
  • Richard George – strings
  • Tappin Gofton – art direction, design
  • William Paden Hensley – assistant
  • Jake Jackson – assistant
  • Dan Keeling – A&R
  • Peter Lale – strings
  • Mathieu Lejeune – assistant
  • Anne Lines – strings
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Taz Mattar – assistant
  • Matt McGinn – guitar technician
  • Laura Melhuish – strings
  • Ken Nelson – audio production, engineer, producer (tracks 3, 4, 12, 13)
  • Adam Noble – assistant
  • Mike Pierce – assistant
  • Dan Porter – assistant
  • Danny Porter – assistant
  • Mark Pythian – computer editing
  • Audrey Riley – string arrangements, strings
  • Carmen Rizzo – computer editing
  • Tim Roe – assistant
  • Bryan Russell – assistant
  • Tom Sheehan – photography
  • Robert Smith – assistant, computers
  • Danton Supple – audio production, producer (except on tracks 3, 4, 12, 13)
  • Christopher Tombling – strings
  • Kevin Westenberg – photography
  • Estelle Wilkinson – management
  • Andrea Wright – assistant

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for X&Y
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[187] 3× Platinum 120,000^
Argentina (CAPIF)[187]
Latin American Tour Edition 		2× Platinum 80,000^
Australia (ARIA)[188] 6× Platinum 420,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[189] Platinum 30,000*
Belgium (BEA)[190] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[191] Gold 50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[192] 5× Platinum 500,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[193] 6× Platinum 120,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[194] Platinum 34,222[194]
France (SNEP)[195] 2× Platinum 400,000*
Germany (BVMI)[196] 3× Platinum 600,000^
Greece (IFPI Greece)[197] Gold 10,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[198] 8× Platinum 120,000^
Italy
Sales in 2005 		— 181,000[199]
Italy (FIMI)[200]
Sales since 2009 		Platinum 50,000‡
Japan (RIAJ)[201] Gold 100,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[202] Platinum 100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[203] Platinum 80,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[204] 6× Platinum 90,000^
Portugal (AFP)[205] 2× Platinum 40,000^
Russia (NFPF)[206] Gold 10,000*
South Korea — 15,132[207]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[208] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Sweden (GLF)[209] Platinum 60,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[210] 2× Platinum 80,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[86] 9× Platinum 2,829,776[211]
United States (RIAA)[212] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[213] 5× Platinum 5,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The special tour edition features the same coloured figure, but under a red background.

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