COLDPLAY'S new album X&Y and is set to become one of the fastest-selling albums of all time after hitting the shops on Monday.
The band's drummer, Will Champion, is from Winchester and was recently voted in the top 20 youngest British millionaire's list with an estimated fortune of £10m.
Industry experts are predicting that more than 400,000 copies of the band's third album will fly off the shelves this week, sending it straight to number one.
X&Y, which was leaked on to the Internet last week despite unprecedented security measures, could become the second-fastest selling album since records began in the early 1990s.
UK retailers believe it could sell as many as 500,000 copies by Saturday.
Only the 1997 album from Oasis, Be Here Now, has ever broken the half-a-million mark in the first week of release, selling 695,761 copies.
Dido's Life for Rent is second in the fastest-selling list, with 400,351 copies in its first week in September 2003.
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