Nikola Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_Xyloto#Charts I was wondering how popular Coldplay is in huge countries like the B.R.I.C. countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). (No Japan though, I know they are big there, I just like the lyric. :awesome:) This is one half of the the world, and they are never mentioned in the official charts, so I don't know if western artists even release their albums there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teernabh5 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 dont worry, i am originally from india and coldplay is HUGE there!http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137480689628259&ref=nf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm not worried, I'm just curious. :D I wouldn't mind if I were the only fan in the world. :awesome: I kinda think they named songs Chinese Sleep Chant and Princess Of China just to suck up to that huge market. :lol: Because the actual songs have nothing to do with China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackColdplay Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 As an English man I know Coldplay are pretty much the biggest band here. I'd say they are in America too maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Yeah but they don't tour in China and India, that's over 2 billion people waiting to see them... :thinking: And it's not just CP... U2, Madonna, you name it. Nobody goes there, and that's a lot of people waiting to give them they moneys. :awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elena35 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm Russian, and Coldplay's my favorite band. Same here. To be honest, I don't think Coldplay is the most popular band in our country, but we do have a lot of their fans. They should have already played at least one gig in Moscow. Even U2 visited us last summer, and the show was a great success. Maybe the problem is that nowadays most of our people prefer downloading music from the Internet for free than buying it. That's why we don't get lots of big gigs. Musicians just don't know whether the show will be successful or not, because they always judge their popularity by the record sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Could it be that they're just not that popular there? :stunned: I doubt that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauCH Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Honestly, Coldplay's not that big in America. On the radio stations, they play silly pop-songs, but you can often hear Clocks or ETIAW (Clocks is IMO their biggest hit ever) and what's amazing is that their songs play on the radio stations for teenagers, for adults, etc. But still, Coldplay is one of the biggest band on earth right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseSleeP Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think Coldplay is still being considered "Alternative" in China. Listenning to yellow and viva la vida is considered as hip by 75% of people. Other than that, even Fix You is not familiar to most music listeners. Also, perceptions of rock bands are fucked up here --- Linkin Park is outrageously favored and Radiohead is barely talked about. Yeah I know, WTF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teco Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 /\ Same in Brazil. We can hear Viva La Vida on the radio often, but that's it. I heard ETIAW once and Paradise 2 or 3 times, no more than that. I'd say Coldplay is like top ten in Brazil :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merrycube Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think I can say they are popular in China :inquisitive: though some of my friends even don't know them, but they may heard their songs before, but don't know who sings it. And some Chinese singers have covered Coldplay's songs. But on the internet I can meet more Coldplay fans :) here are two main websites http://www.douban.com/group/Coldplay/ and http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=coldplay no facebook, because facebook is banned here :( Mostly some people like to compare Coldplay to Radiohead or other bands, they would say Coldplay don't like they were before, and more like a pop band, or don't like Chris ( haha, I haven't seen people say they don't like Jonny, Will or Guy ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 I can't believe China is still that oppressive... :( I'm from Europe and they're at the moment the biggest band here. (And have been since X&Y I guess.) Well, older bands are more popular, but we're talking about active ones. I hear Teardrop and Paradise every day on TV, as well as all other songs when they came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liu273420683 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 far as im concerned, coldplay is the second biggest english-speaking band in china. linkin's got the largest fanbase. not sure about recent years especially after the major flop with their latest effort, 'a thousand suns'. anyway, coldplay's still growing. since the chinese music industry has become a cliche, chinese people listen to more english songs now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didoardell Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think Coldplay is one of the foreign bands that Chinese people know most . PS I see four Chinese in this thread including me.:laugh3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Can you buy a physical CD in China? Or do you just have the option of downloading it from iTunes or a similar internet music store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saket Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 We love them here. http://www.facebook.com/groups/coldplayweloveyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseSleeP Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Can you buy a physical CD in China? Or do you just have the option of downloading it from iTunes or a similar internet music store? Yes We can buy all Coldplay's studio albums. NO EP or live CDs though. I'd say digital music market is not in the mode yet in China. People just buy physical CDs or download music for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseSleeP Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I think Coldplay is one of the foreign bands that Chinese people know most . PS I see four Chinese in this thread including me.:laugh3: HAHA! AWESOME! We should totally post in Chinese! .......or not.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merrycube Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Can you buy a physical CD in China? Or do you just have the option of downloading it from iTunes or a similar internet music store? haha, of course. Here are Chinese version CD ( no Mylo Xyloto yet). Most fans would buy Japanese or Taiwan or European version via Amazon or by others abroad. Some crazy fans would collect their EPs through Ebay :rolleyes::rolleyes: And someone would download from iTunes and upload to share with others :P:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merrycube Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 HAHA! AWESOME! We should totally post in Chinese! .......or not.............. :rolleyes::rolleyes: here http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24551&page=11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikola Posted December 17, 2011 Author Share Posted December 17, 2011 The whole world is in Coldplay's Paradise... :dazzled: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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