Competitively priced for as little as £6.99, Dig Out Your Soul outsold nearest rival Only By The Night by The Kings Of Leon - which sold 66,362 copies - by a margin of three to one.

It is the third album this year to register a weekly sale in excess of 200,000: Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends opened with 302,074 sales in June; and Kings Of Leon's Only By The Night sold 220,879 copies a ...