Free Coldplay download figures released

16:10 | Wednesday April 30, 2008

In the first 12 hours it was downloaded by 300,000 people, a figure which doubled overnight as other countries logged on to coldplay.com, the source of the free download.

The single will be available free for a week and will then be released as a paid-for digital single on May 6.

Earlier today Last.fm claimed that Coldplay’s free download of Violet Hill was a massive success, based on their own figures. Violet Hill, which was available as a free download from coldplay.com from 1215pm yesterday, was listened to 33,523 in 23 hours by Last.fm users, according to figure in the Guardian.

The free download comes more than a month ahead of the release of Coldplay’s fourth studio album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.

The download coincided with the track receiving its radio premiere on Jo Whiley’s Radio one show.

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends is released on June 16.