Money | music industry Coldplay Tops World Chart for '08 Viva la Vida the year's bestselling album By Kevin Spak Posted Feb 16, 2009 3:28 PM CST Copied Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, and Christine Baranski are shown in a scene from, "Mama Mia!" The movie's soundtrack was the world's third-best selling album in 2008. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Peter Mountain) See 1 more photo Coldplay’s Viva La Vida was the best-selling album in the world last year, the BBC reports, selling 6.8 million copies. Coldplay was one of four British acts to crack the top 10. Here’s the rest of the list: AC/DC: Black Ice The Mama Mia! soundtrack Duffy: Rockferry Metallica: Death Magnetic Leona Lewis: Spirit Amy Winehouse: Back to Black High School Musical 3 soundtrack Lil Wayne: The Carter III Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad Read These Next John Bolton could face a maximum sentence of 180 years. Andrew is still a prince, but he's no longer a duke. Scientist's theory explains why we haven't met aliens. ChatGPT is going to get sexy. Lots of people are worried. See 1 more photo Report an error