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Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
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Viva la Vida Or Death And All His Friends is Coldplay's fourth studio album. It was released gradually between the 11th - 17th June 2008 via Parlophone and Capitol Records. In the UK it was released on the 12th June 2008 and after being on sale for only 3 days it achieved No1 status on the official UK Album chart selling over 302,000 units.
Singer Chris Martin chose the album title after seeing the phrase, which means “long live life,” on a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who endured polio, a broken spine, and chronic pain for decades. “She went through a lot of ****, of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said ‘Viva la Vida,’” says Martin. “I just loved the boldness of it.”
Of course, Frida Kahlo will not be the first name that jumps to most peoples’ minds when they hear the phrase. “Everyone thinks it comes from Ricky Martin, which is fine. I have absolute respect,” says the singer, who gave Coldplay its original name, Pectoralz, and named his children Apple and Moses. “I’ve been through this before, naming something or someone and everyone saying that ‘That’s a terrible name’. But then saying, ‘Well, **** you, that’s what it’s called, and I’ll be proved to be right eventually’. So when Viva la Vida came along, I was kind of annoyed because I’m going to have to try and convince everybody of this, but it just felt right.”
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Argentine Albums Chart[85] 1
Australian Albums Chart[86] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[87] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[88] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[89] 1
Canadian Albums Chart[91] 1
Danish Albums Chart[93] 1
Dutch Albums Chart[94] 1
European Albums Chart[95] 1
Finnish Albums Chart[96] 1
French Albums Chart[97] 1
German Albums Chart[98] 1
Greek Albums Chart[99] 1
Irish Albums Chart[100] 1
Italian Albums Chart[101] 1
New Zealand Albums Chart[105] 1
Norwegian Albums Chart[106] 1
Portuguese Albums Chart[108] 1
Spanish Albums Chart[109] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[110] 1
Swiss Albums Chart[111] 1
UK Albums Chart[112] 1
US Billboard 200[113] 1
Czech Albums Chart[92] 2
Mexican Albums Chart[104] 2
Polish Albums Chart[107] 2
Brazilian Albums Chart[90] 3
Japanese Albums Chart[102] 3
Hungarian Albums Chart[103] 4
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The complete slayage 
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I find it like the 5th best song on X&Y 
