Midweek Charts update: Daft Punk have year's best opening sales tally

Paul Williams

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has sold more than 130,000 copies in just five days to achieve the highest first-week sales of the year for an artist album.

The Columbia release had shifted 133,472 copies in the UK up to the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company, beating the previous 2013 opening sales high of 121,415 units set in April by Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble's To Be Loved.

However, the Daft Punk album still ...

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