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One of the best selling albums of all time, in the UK, is known as Coldplay’s latest album that is entitled “Mylo Xyloto.” This album has actually already broke the 2010 record number of sales. 21.3 million copies have been sold this year of 2011. This year alone, digital albums represented 26.2% of all album sales. This went up 17.5% from 2010. That is a big difference if you really think about it. This album has broke the record for the highest number of actual copies to be sold within the release of the first week. As many as 80,000 copies of this album were actually sold in the first week alone.

It may have a lot to do with the Christmas season that is coming up. Regardless, it is very nice to have seen this album selling so much, in such a little bit of time. Music fans have so many different ways to buy music besides just the digital copy. Them having access to more than just one way, makes people want to go out and get it. People are downloading the music on Itunes, and from various other sites. All of these count towards the number of sales as well. This is very good way for people to really start buying music in more than just one way.

The Pukkelpop festival on Thursday August 18 in 2011, turned into a nightmare, as there were an estimated sixty-thousand people at the Pukkelpop festival when the weather turned fierce. Causing the stage to collapse and kill up to five people and injuring at least seventy people.

Pukkelpop is an annual music festival near Hasselt, Belgium. Pukkelpop is a yearly concert in the mid to the latter part of August. The Pukkelpop held in a large enclosure of fields and woodlands. The Pukkelpop festival is the second largest music festival in Belgium. The festival lasts for three days with various bands and events.

On Thursday August 18, 2011, the Chateau stage destroyed at the festival in Eastern Belgium from the crashing trees. The trees fell around the festival guests in the area where the thousands of people were standing waiting for the festival to continue. The Pukkelpop festivals shelter stage for the people watching the festival that had giant flat screen televisions to be able to watch the concerts also damaged as the large televisions fell down causing more damage. Although, not believed to have caused any deaths or injuries to the people standing under the shelter while the giant television screens fell down from the strong winds.

The stage equipment was dangling in gales as the battered and bruised festival goers were running for shelter. The head of emergency medical planning Mr. Hugo Simons was said to have told a the VRT radio station that at the time there were three people found dead and only eleven people had severe injuries. However, after further details reported the death toll had went up to five people and seventy people injured.

A viewer of the festival and the Dutch television reporter for the NOS television news was attending the festival and had said, “The sky turned dark with the wind becoming forcefully violent. After the winds became powerful, the hail started while pelting the visitor of the music festival. Tents were collapsing, trees were falling, and the lighting scaffolds were dangling and falling to the ground.

The headliners were Foo Fighters, Eminem, and Offspring. However, they had not yet played at the festival. As the stage had collapsed before the headliners were to play. Due to the severe weather, deaths, and injuries the storm caused canceled out the rest of the Pukkelpop festival for the first time.

The Pukkelpop festival in Belgium was the second concert incident that became deadly within one week. Two days after the Pukkelpop festival the Indianapolis state fair in Indiana had parts of the stage collapse at the concert during the fair killing five people and injuring dozens of concertgoers from the winds that also collapsed the stage.