The Parlophone track had previously been excluded from the chart after being made available as an individual download to anyone pre-ordering the digital version of the band's new album. However, that situation has now passed, allowing Viva La Vida to qualify for the singles chart for the first time.

Coldplay, whose Speed Of Sound was famously prevented from becoming the band's first number one single in 2005 by Crazy Frog, are presently a few hundred sales ahead of Mint Royale's ...