Parlophone's Coldplay scored a Top Five debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Rush Of Blood To The Head last Thursday (05/09/02), leading one of the strongest UK-signed contingents in the US Top 50 of recent months.

While the label was predicting a more cautious Top 10 position last week, Coldplay clinched the number five spot with over the counter sales of 140,854 albums.

Parlophone managing director Keith Wozencroft says, "The important thing was to see we had grown ...