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HT: Jason! 

Don’t count out CD sales just yet.

While record stores may be
shuttering at an alarming clip, and overall tallies for albums are down
another 10% this year, breaking sales figures show the industry on a
desperately needed upswing.

At least for the moment.

Last week, Lil Wayne‘s
latest album, “Tha Carter III,” moved one million copies, the highest
tally for an opening CD week in over three years. That figure handily
trounced the biggest debut week of 2007, Kayne West‘s “Graduation” CD, which pushed just over 950,000.

Now comes more encouraging news. Coldplay‘s new CD, “Viva La Vida,” moved 729,255 copies in its first seven day cycle, according to Hitsdailydouble.com.

Official figures won’t be published by Nielsen/SoundScan until June 25th.

Meanwhile, Coldplay also beat an iTunes
record. “Viva” inspired over 300,000 full album downloads via that
service, more than doubling the figure racked up by the previous
one-week itunes download champ, Jack Johnson, who pushed 140,000 in the initial drop of his latest CD.

Surprise! Music sales on the upswing.