These were always very conservative numbers.
Predictions after the first day are always the best. This will be a great era regardless of first week sales.
Coldplay a flop? For real? What's wrong with all of you? At first their doing 250.000 first week in US..they just released an experimental pop song days ago and their releasing an album 2 weeks after Adele..Coldplay is the kind of act like Adele that the average music buyer will got. The business is in shock after the 25 release..they will be fine..what flop are you talking about? Their doing an only stadium shows tour all over the world, they got superbowl and they will do much more promo for this..ghost stories wasnt a strong album and they just wanted to put this stuff out and so they did and some songs are really good without even really promoting it sold 4mil copies..relax