This coming Monday was supposed to bring a new Coldplay track, Atlas, as featured on the forthcoming 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' soundtrack. But if you haven't heard, the Atlas release has been delayed by a week and a half, as confirmed by Coldplay's official Twitter account. More discussion on the delay is at the Atlas sub-forum now.
Confirmation followed on Coldplay.com: "Atlas will now be available via iTunes and all digital retailers on Sunday, 8 September, 2013 in the UK and Friday, 6 September, 2013 everywhere else (we had to move it back a bit from the original 26 August date - sorry for the hold-up). The film is due for release on 22 November, 2013."A potential explanation was wrote by macky on the forums: "I think the song is ready and this has to do with the record label. The VMAs are on this Sunday and that's probably the biggest music award show here (Grammys are more prestigious but VMAs are bigger). With all the hottest artists performing on Sunday night, next week charts will be loaded by said artists and whoever releases a song the day after the VMAs (without performing it on the show) might have low sales and not much press. So if they want this song to be as big as it could be, this is a smart idea."Oldmuckers added: "It was starting to seem like there was way too little promotion for a song that was supposed to come out in less then a week. I mean when you think about it we had the initial announcement and then... nothing. This makes a little more sense now. I think we have a chance of hearing a 30 second clip... a radio station vivit to debut the song... the normal build up to a single. Maybe they feel like they have a huge hit on their hands and wanted to take a little more time to film a video, line up a few appearances... things like that. Maybe on Monday we will all wake up to a message saying that they are sorry that we were all expecting a new song this morning and for the delay and to make it up to us here is a free download of Famous Old Painters..."Or, as kalex1138 put it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1sIn other latest 'Catching Fire' soundtrack news, as published by Hypable, music producer Scooter Braun has seemingly revealed that Ed Sheeran and Tori Kelly will be a part of the album. In a tweet that has since been removed, Braun wrote, “Best morning gift! @ToriKelly @edsheeran #HungerGames WOW!!!!!” Presumably the pair recorded a new song together. Braun is a producer for artists like Justin Bieber, The Wanted, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Usher. The Catching Fire soundtrack will be released in November ahead of the film’s theatrical debut. The Hunger Games soundtrack included many big artists like Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, and Miranda Lambert, so as you can imagine this follow up soundtrack should be equally impressive. Catching Fire opens in cinemas and theaters around the world on 22nd November.We've had to move Atlas' release date back a bit. It's now out 8 Sept in the UK, 6 Sept everywhere else. Sorry for the hold-up. A
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