Coldplay's new single 'Violet Hill' has been downloaded two million times since it was made available for free last week. A statement issued by EMI said that demand for the single, which was made available as a free download for seven days on Coldplay's official website, was "staggering" and that it "would have outsold the whole of last week's UK Top 40 four times over". Although that does assume that two million people would have paid for it if it wasn't available for free. We'll see, I guess, as it was released on physical formats this week.
As we reported last week, the track received over 700,000 downloads in the first 24hrs it was online, despite the website crashing due to the weight of demand. This all bodes pretty well for sales of Coldplay's forthcoming album 'Viva La Vida', out 2 Jun.