Editing Kid A (section)

== Sales ==
''Kid A'' reached number one on Amazon's sales chart, with more than 10,000 pre-orders.<ref name="COHEN" /> It debuted at number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]],<ref name="DEBUT" /> selling 55,000 copies in its first day – the biggest first-day sales of the year and more than every other album in the top ten combined.<ref name="DEBUT" /> ''Kid A'' also debuted at number one on the US ''[[Billboard 200]]'',<ref name="US1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/968437.stm|title=US adopts Kid A|date=12 October 2000|work=BBC News|access-date=22 March 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203052923/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/968437.stm|archive-date=3 February 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref> selling more than 207,000 copies in its first week.<ref name="Sales">{{cite web|url=http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicRadiohead/oct18_radiohead-can.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041031192406/http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicRadiohead/oct18_radiohead-can.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 October 2004|title=Radiohead sales fall, but 'Kid' still No. 1|access-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref> It was Radiohead's first US top-20 album, and the first US number one in three years for any British act.<ref name="COHEN" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1389135.stm|title=US Success for Radiohead|date=14 June 2001|work=BBC News|access-date=22 March 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313150734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1389135.stm|archive-date=13 March 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ''Kid A'' also debuted at number one in Canada, where it sold more than 44,000 copies in its first week,<ref name="Sales"/> and in France, Ireland and New Zealand. European sales slowed on 2 October 2000, the day of release, when EMI recalled 150,000 faulty CDs.<ref name="DEBUT" /> By June 2001, ''Kid A'' had sold 310,000 copies in the UK, less than a third of ''OK Computer'' sales.<ref name=Petridis-Amnesiac>{{cite news|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|title=CD of the week: Radiohead: ''Amnesiac''|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1|date=1 June 2001|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|access-date=13 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906155527/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/jun/01/shopping.artsfeatures1|archive-date=6 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> It is [[certified platinum]] in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Japan and the US.