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May 07, 2008

EMI says free Coldplay single downloaded 2 million times...

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Coldplay’s “Violet Hill” was downloaded more than 2 million times while available for free, according to EMI.

The track was available from coldplay.com for one week from April 29. The track was commercially released yesterday (May 6) via standard digital outlets such as iTunes, although it is still being streamed on the band’s Web site.

As previously reported, EMI say the track was downloaded 600,000 times in its first 24 hours of availability, causing the Web site to crash. The label says the 2 million figure is four times that of the combined sales of the Official U.K. Charts Co.‘s entire Top 40 chart last week.


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