September 15, 201114 yr They're releasing 2 singles before the album?! Who does that? I understand Every Tear was for festival season (Although its still a bit odd to release a single months before an album) but now with Paradise coming out, this is just confusing. Innit? Rags.
September 15, 201114 yr Actually, they have done this before. Both Shiver and Yellow were released before Parachutes.
September 15, 201114 yr Promotion overload. Has enough people bothered to cast their glances towards Dave Holmes their manager as well as the band? The interview he gave to Billboard recently showed he was hell bent on doing anything he can to sell them. Yeah that's what managers do but you've got to worry a bit when most of a feature on Coldplay is taken up by their manager talking of ways to sell them. Worse still Chris Martin actually asks him for opinions on their music.
September 15, 201114 yr Noel Gallagher has already released 3 singles and his album comes out the week after Mylo Xyloto. I wouldn't think to much into it, I'm sure they know what they're doing
September 16, 201114 yr Noel Gallagher has already released 3 singles and his album comes out the week after Mylo Xyloto. I wouldn't think to much into it, I'm sure they know what they're doing Week before Mylo Xyloto :P
September 16, 201114 yr Stars released Fixed and We Don't Want Your Body before TFG dropped, and then they premiered Dead Hearts, Wasted Daylight, etc. through music sites like COS. Arcade Fire released The Suburbs/Month Of May (double A-side single), Ready To Start, AND We Used To Wait before The Suburbs dropped. Broken Social Scene had World Sick and Forced To Love/All To All (double A-side single) before FRR dropped last year. Hell, even Modest Mouse released three (four counting King Rat with the WWD pre-order) singles from their 2009 EP before it dropped. The recent Danger Mouse/James Mercer duo Broken Bells had The High Road and Vaporize out before that self-titled album was released and they're not nearly as successful as Coldplay. If anything, it seems kind of the norm what they're doing. Especially with Paradise marking six weeks until MX sees release.
September 16, 201114 yr I believe Paradise is the "official" single, but who the hell knows. No, the official single is Princes of China with video clip :sneaky: Rihanna will be disguised in chinese doll on it.
September 16, 201114 yr Beirut also released East Harlem and Goshen before they released their most recent album. It's not an unusual thing to do. What bothers me more is that we've heard about half of the album already through those festivals. I'm not really looking forward to the album as much as I probably would have been, especially since a lot of the new material has been pretty underwhelming for me.
September 16, 201114 yr Hasn't Coldplay, along with most bands, always done this? Either that, or I am missing something.
September 16, 201114 yr They released Violet Hill and Viva before the album came out last time (albeit Viva the single was closer to the release date of Viva the album than Paradise is to MX). They seem to do this more often than not based on what i've read in this thread.
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