It was the UK's best-selling rock album of 2011, selling 908,000 copies. Mylo Xyloto became Coldplay's third album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 447,000 units in its first week of sales. ( BeyoncГ©'s self-tited album and Adele's 25 topped this record in 20 respectively). Mylo Xyloto broke an iTunes record for digital downloads sales by selling over 500,000 digital copies in a week. In the United Kingdom, Mylo Xyloto became Coldplay's fifth album to debut at number one, selling 208,000 units in its first week, and setting a one-week digital sales record with 83,000 copies sold. Internationally, Mylo Xyloto charted at number one in 34 countries. ' Paradise' and ' Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall' received a total of three Grammy Award nominations in 2012, while the album and 'Charlie Brown' received two further Grammy nominations in 2013. The album received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its uplifting tone and new electronic sound however, some found its material overproduced. However, in the comics based on the album, Mylo Xyloto is the main protagonist and Fly is the sparker girl he encounters. In interviews the band have said that the album follows a love story between Mylo and Xyloto, with them being separate characters. Drummer Will Champion has noted that the album is a story of the characters 'falling in love and trying to escape together', with a general theme of 'love conquering all'. Through Fly, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids, a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents, Aiko and Lela. He encounters Fly, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. The album follows Mylo Xyloto, a 'silencer', a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down 'sparkers', people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away 'feeders', creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour on the planet Silencia, which has been overtaken by a totalitarian government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. Mylo Xyloto is a concept album and a thematic rock opera. The band worked closely with producer Brian Eno following their successful collaboration on Viva la Vida, the band's previous album. Mylo Xyloto (pronounced / Л€ m aЙЄ l oКЉ Л€ z aЙЄ l Й™ t oКЉ/ MY-loh ZY-lЙ™-toh) is the fifth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released in late October 2011.

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