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9 years of X&Y On June 6th 2005, Coldplay released their third studio album, X&Y and it instantly resulted in world domination for the band, with X&Y becoming the highest selling album of 2005 and expanding their fan base of Coldplayers across the globe in the process! We will take a look a the 9 things that we love about X&Y, a special era of music for Coldplay that will always live in our memories, in video form! There are a million things really to love about X&Y so choos

Magnificent Coldplay at Casino De Paris Coldplay completed yet another wonderful show as part of their short, but sweet Ghost Stories intimate tour. The crowd of French Coldplayers were on top voice last night and it certainly impressed "Coldplay's 5th member", Phil Harvey who expressed his delight on Twitter below. If you can read French or have simply just used Google translator, you would have seen in the title that A Rush of Blood To The Head album track, Green Eyes made a surprise return d

Coldplay Royce Hall - Rocking Los Angeles Late last night, on Monday 19th May, the day Ghost Stories was released to the rest of the world, Coldplay arrived on stage to perform their last North American date on the Ghost Stories intimate tour. The band performed a re-arranged setlist from previous shows, which saw Ghost Stories being played in full after an array of older songs including the first play since 2002 of A Whisper from A Rush of Blood to The Head and the boys played it as if they h

As reported previously, Coldplay completed a brilliant setlist for amazed fans in New York on Monday which included True Love which was hidden from public listening! Now see how other Coldplayers experienced the spectacular show on Monday.   The reviews come from the delighted bdevil89 on the Coldplaying forums and Christa42 + Texasluvsjonny, who are part of the great moderating team here at Coldplaying and who were our representatives that night! by bdevil89   Wow - the 9p show was ridicu

Chris Martin has obviously been watching 'The Amazing Spiderman' too much! Coldplay were due to appear on Saturday Night Live as previewed and Chris decided to give some advise to actor, Andrew Garfield who led a sketch with his partner, Emma Stone which was filming the kissing scene from the popular film with hilarious out-takes and with Emma Stone been referred to as Gwenyth until Chris Martin interrupted proceedings and offered to give the scene a try, so up stepped the Coldplay frontman who

Tuesday 29th May is the date the most hyped Coldplay single to date, A Sky Full of Stars finally hit the ears of all fans who had not been lucky enough to hear it live at the intimate shows performed in the US and in Germany.   It started off with a mixed reception but the gauge of positivity is increasing based on the latest poll results on our website and forum. the eighth single off Ghost Stories had set quite a high bar for itself and it did not meet the expectations for some but generally

As discussed last week, an interview between Zane Lowe of BBC Radio 1 and Chris Martin was planned to air today and it proved to be the biggest talking point of "Ghost Stories" so far with Chris not only revealing experiences from his personal life but talking through parts of the album with Zane Lowe which led to several clips being played.   The following new tracks were playing during the interview   Always In My Head - Half of the song. Oceans - All of the song pretty much. A Sky Full o

Since the release of Midnight and the official remix earlier on when the clocks struck 12 AM, a massive mark has been left on the charts as Midnight has hit #1 in the ITunes chart of over 53 countries!   (Thanks to Rezaditya on Twitter for this image)   Most of the sales for Midnight came from downloads as an instant grat track people who pre-ordered Ghost Stories on ITunes received. Another portion was from regular downloads on Midnight on its own and others were for the official remix of

Above : The last Coldplay visit to Cologne. This time, we may expect to see star shaped confetti! (photo by Getty Images)   Friday 25th April, the date Ghost Stories may get blown open to the public, in live form! Coldplay will play their first show in the six date promo tour in Cologne, Germany. Why should we expect to hear the new tracks? Because historically speaking, Coldplay have performed a setlist that stays pretty much the same, sometimes a few songs switch places and a few tracks are

Last Monday, we were treated to the video premiere of Coldplay's 1st single taken from "Ghost Stories", "Magic". Now the directors and Zhang Ziyi, the actress who co-stared alongside Coldplay's Chris Martin in the music video, best known for her roles in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Rush Hour 2 have revealed we will have the privilege of viewing the extended colour version of the music video!   Firstly, you can view a gallery of the new behind the scene photos of the Magic music video in

Coldplay lead singer, Chris Martin inducted Peter Gabriel, the lead singer of the historic progressive rock band, Genesis into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Thursday night. Chris continued being his usual funny self, appearing to be reading from the book of Genesis while he read out, "An angel of the lord descended and appeared before Phil the Collins......and Phil the Collins said unto him, who are you O angel?" as Chris paused for a second, deep in character and relishing the speech

Mark your (Coldplay!) Calenders everyone, a possible landmark live appearance is on its way! Should it fall before the planned NBC special on the way there is a possibility that 'A Sky Full of Stars' may debut just before the possible 5th May release.   The source of information is from a reliable source via a media editor/writer on Twitter who has been told the date of Coldplay's appearance on the show! (Thanks to Gai on the forums for posting this) and it should be confirmed also by Radiotim

There are many types of Coldplay fans and there are hundreds of ways for us to show our enthusiasm for the band we love! Some build up as many MP3's as possible of every single live performance, rare, b-side etc.. Others stalk the band outside their studio at the bakery (naughty!) And some others show their appreciation on every single Coldplay related website, forum and Facebook page online! The following fans are devoted collectors of every released Coldplay CD whether its in a form of a singl

Coldplay's Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have decided to separate after 10 years of marriage, the couple have announced. The pair, who married in 2003, issued the announcement in a statement on Gwyneth’s website Goop, titled “Conscious Uncoupling”. More of your thoughts on this news are at the Coldplay forum now [thanks gai]   Within minutes, the Goop webpage was unavailable as the site struggled to cope with the demand from fans seeking confirmation of the news. The statement on Goop, wrote

Chris Martin’s band has been a punchline since that first fresh-faced beach walk, and there are some good reasons for that, writes Stereogum, following the release of Coldplay's latest song, Magic. Read on for the article, and discuss it at the Magic sub-forum now [thanks ihaveabono]   Stereogum continues: When your debut album sounds less like a spongy facsimile of Bends-era Radiohead than a facsimile of Travis, themselves a spongy facsimile of Bends-era Radiohead, you invite ridicule. When yo

SPIN's Dan Reilly this week has compared Coldplay's new single to Bon Iver in his log-cabins-and-vocoders phase, which isn't too far off the mark.   But from a dance-centric point of view, what's most striking is that 'Midnight', with its atmospheric synthesizers, Göttsching-like guitar pings, and abdomen-massaging bass, is just one four-to-the-floor kick drum away from being an Innervisions track, essentially. (Apparently, it was produced by Jon Hopkins, who previously provided "Colours and Ad

Completely unannounced - and quite possibly on the advice of Beyoncé - Coldplay decided to plonk a new track on the internet this week called Midnight, writes Digital Spy.   Okay, so Beyoncé probably didn't have a hand in it, but once we recovered from the initial shock of there being new Coldplay available for our ears, we had to try and decipher the change in sound the band have seemingly taken.     Digital Spy continue: Their previous album Mylo Xyloto heard them sprinkle pop electronics

Warner Music Group has finalized the integration of Parlophone’s roster into its U.S. label structure following the acquisition of the record label from Universal Music Group for £487 million (about $765 million) earlier this year, Billboard are reporting today.Under the new structure, Atlantic Records will distribute new releases from three additional artists – Coldplay, Tinie Tempah and, through dance imprint Big Beat, David Guetta.Warner Bros. Records will inherit the majority of the Parlopho

The Recording Academy have announced the Grammy 2014 nominations on Friday during a concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles - and Coldplay have been nominated for two awards. Put forward are Atlas for 'Best Song Written For Visual Media' and Live 2013 for 'Best Music Film'. Latest discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks CdColdplay, oldmuckers]The 56th Annual Grammy Awards nomination presentation was given almost as much fanfare as the ceremony itself this year at LA's Nokia T

We have been asking for your comments on a recently published list of the top 10 Coldplay singles by web magazine, The Celebrity Cafe. Check out all your feedback at the messageboard. Read on for CelCafe's Coldplay countdown. They don't appear to be a fan of the Viva La Vida era with videos for Violet Hill, Viva La Vida, Lovers In Japan, Life In Technicolor ii and Strawberry Swing all missing out...   Coldplay is the band that everyone secretly loves to love. The vocals of Chris Martin are in

Chris Martin attended Jony Ive and Marc Newson's (Red) Auction at Sotheby's in New York last night (23rd November) to benefit The Global Fund to fight AIDS. During the event Chris performed 'Beautiful Day' and Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' with Bono on a to-be-auctioned Steinway & Sons grand piano (which later sold for just under $2m). Read more on this at the Coldplay forum now.The charity auction exceeded expectations - most of the items at the charity auction fetched sums that far exceeded the

An online article has emerged via The Inquirer from the recent Hunger Games: Catching Fire press conference where Chris Martin attended and was interviewed during the conference. The full article is below courtesy of the Inquirer. [thanks gai, Tash]   LOS ANGELES: It turns out that Coldplay’s frontman, Chris Martin, is also a funnyman. Asked in a recent interview if he’s a tough critic of his wife Gwyneth Paltrow’s singing, Chris joked, “Very! I’m a tyrant. I say, ‘No, that note was flat!’ An

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

In a little over two weeks we'll have 'new Coldplay', fan-speak for unheard material from our favourite band. Their new song, Atlas will be realeased on 26th August as part of 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' film soundtrack. The film itself will be released in cinemas on 22nd November.   We have been inundated with reaction and comments on the announcement yesterday. Some of your comments are below (thanks to everyone who has contributed - you can read the whole thread at the Coldplay forum h

A tired Duke of Cambridge has resorted to singing Coldplay songs to his newborn son, Prince George Alexander Louis, to get the infant to sleep, the Daily Star reported earlier today. More discussion on this is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks Tash]   31-year-old Prince William has been belting out Coldplay songs 'Yellow' and 'Paradise' in the hope the little one, who was born last week, will go back to sleep as he is up six times a night and is keeping Carole and Michael Middleton, the parents