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Oasis say 'Coldplay are trying to beat our record' - Tabloid Hell

The rockers reckon Chris Martin and co. want their first week sales crown

May 23, 2008 | 10 Comments

Sources close to Oasis are apparently suggesting that Coldplay are attempting to steal their album sales crown by releasing their forthcoming new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', on a Thursday.

Oasis released their third album, 'Be Here Now', on a Thursday (August 20) in 1997, and clocked up a record 700,000 sales in three days. Coldplay's album will be out on Thursday June 12.

The Sun quotes an anonymous source close to Oasis as saying: "Some people reckon Coldplay have nicked their successful blueprint from 'Be Here Now' to try to break the record."

However, another anonymous source, this time from the Coldplay camp, is quoted as saying: "The band [Coldplay] decided to release the album on a Thursday to bring it in line with the rest of Europe. Oasis was never an influence."

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Stardumb

May 23, 2008

I donâ€™t know why oasis worries about these other bands like coldplay or even the relevance of some of their ridiculous arguments stem from. Who really cares about coldplay anymore??...Oh my fault the people who watch American idol still care

chazj89

May 24, 2008

i was pretty sure that arctic monkeys broke that record wth their first album anyway...that was all the hype back then anyway

camneel152

May 24, 2008

If no one cared about Coldplay, Oasis wouldn't be worried would they. I don't watch American idol by the way.

definetly_music

May 24, 2008

i really don't like coldplay, but i can't understand what is the matter that the cd be here now was released a thursday and tjhe new one of coldplay too. i'm sure lots of cds were realesed on a thursdat.anyway, Coldplay will never reach the good music that plays Oasis although the last three cds, i don't like so much

J D 918

May 29, 2008

Wow are Oasis jealous or what? That's actually quite low if either of the bands considered trying to out-do the other, we're all in the music together surely?

CedarRoom1998

May 29, 2008

to be honest, I don't think that Coldplay have any chance whatsoever of beating this record for their new album. The atmosphere around the time of Be Here Now was fereish - people would have crawled over broken glass to get a copy on the day of release. There was a lot of excitement around the release of X&Y and even that didn't break Oasis' record. There is nowhere near the same interest for this release, although I have no doubt it will still sell very well. Oasis should concentrate on getting their own album out - that's what we really want to hear!!

htl123

May 29, 2008

i dont get why you brits love oasis so much if you look back you find out that they only 2 good albums and they pretty much sounded the same...and noel songwriting is beautiful but not evolving i mean wonderwall live forvever whatever all pretty much the same just with diffrent lyrics..i hope that the new album will be good and that noel won't be too much lead vocals...anyway ever since morning oasis pretty much stuck and all they done is crappy music since

InternationalStupidity

May 30, 2008

Are you crazy Stardumb = dumbstar, oasis have never won record of the year at the grammys so nananana until they can do that is until noel gallagher remains arrogant and liam....oh god...

cjsimonetti

Jun 20, 2008

Christ, why don't Oasis just piss off? Yes, yes, they were once one of the biggest bands on the planet, though most of their records were absolutely dismal (check out "Wonderwall," cleverly dissed by Travis in their song "Writing to Meet You") they couldn't write a decent lyric to save their lives and the Gallagher Brothers were/are misogynistic, homophobic, obnoxious pigs. Their rock star posturing (very public drug usage, provoking violence at their gigs, etc., etc....yawn) was more embarressing than anything. But when was the last time anyone bought one of their records? Blur (you'll remember that Oasis opined that they hoped Albarn and company would "get AIDS" when the latter beat them to the top of the U.K. singles chart in '95) were much better. As they once cruelly and publicly characterized the beautiful and fragile Michael Hutchence, Oasis are has-beens. I'd rather listen to Coldplay (the title track of the new LP is my favourite), the Manics or a score of other groups any day.