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Originally posted by Superpower
Coldplay's 2008 lead single was downloaded 2M times.
Back in February, U2's Invisible was downloaded 3M times.
So to answer your question, yes my faves can  |
"Violet Hill" was downloaded only 600k times in its first day of free availability; it was freely available for a week.
"Invisible" was available for 36 hours and was aided by a prominent charity campaign by The Global Fund as well as a Super Bowl commercial. "Fireproof" on the other hand was simply spontaneously released with no outer purpose or reason and was downloaded 1.1 million times. While I can concede that, whatever the circumstances may be, U2 indeed sold more, the situations are not comparable; the disparity between their charity-aided campaigned single and their current free release album (which was downloaded just 200k times on day one) highlights the issue with trying to compare a charity giveaway to a spontaneous fan gift.
In addition, neither song applies to the OP's question, as neither is an album track or buzz release with no intended single release - both were fully released individually.
