Atlas

Coldplay were beaten by U2 to the Best Original Song at the Golden Globes award ceremony in Los Angeles recently, and even failed to make the shortlist in the Song Oscar contenders (both for Atlas), but all is not lost for Coldplay while they are in the US during 'awards season'. The GRAMMY Awards 2014 are tonight - and they're up for two awards. Latest discussion on the ceremony at the Coldplay forum now.   Read on for a preview of tonight's GRAMMYs and the Golden Globes mini-review...    

After a botched start that included a round of "Fix You," Chris Martin led the band into their first-ever live performance of "Atlas" in London (19 Dec), writes Rolling Stone in a review of the Under1Roof charity gig. They focussed on Coldplay's latest single, which is Coldplay's contribution to the Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack.   More reviews, videos and photos are at the Coldplay Live forum now (49 pages and counting!). Read on for the rest of this media review...     Rolling Sto

Coldplay, Taylor Swift and U2 are among the names shortlisted for the Best Original Song prize at the Golden Globes 2014. More on this is at the Coldplay forum now [thanks Tash] The five nominees were announced yesterday (12th December) with Justin Timberlake, U2 and Idina Menzel also included. Coldplay's 'Atlas' for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will go up against Taylor Swifts's song 'Sweeter Than Fiction', recorded for the soundtrack to the Paul Potts biopic One Chance', and U2's 'Ordinary

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire score tracklisting has been revealed today, and the Coldplay-penned track "We're A Team" is on it. Read to the end for the full tracklisting. Not only that, we can reveal that Atlas will be played during the closing credits of the film, due for release later in November.Said Coldplayer Mellark on the forums just now: "We're A Team confirmed to be part of the Catching Fire score. Atlas will be played during the credits, and We're A Team is a melody of this."As we r

Coldplay were honoured with the Hollywood Song Award at the 17th Hollywood Film Awards on Monday for their latest song Atlas from Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.The Hollywood Film Awards awards ceremony took place on Monday night (21st October 2013) at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Chris Martin also gave a solo performance of Atlas, the first live public performance of the song. In addition, Chris accepted the award on behalf of the rest of the band - their particula

Coldplay.com have reported today (Tuesday 15th October) that new song Atlas (from the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) will receive this year's Hollywood Song Award at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards. Chris Martin will attend the ceremony on 21st October (this Sunday!) at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to collect the award, and to perform the song (which will be the first time it has been played live). More discussion on this forthcoming performance and ceremony is at the

More questions answered by The Oracle... (circa. 4700! questions now answered - submit yours now!)   September 26, 2013 - submitted by Alex M, United States of America Q. Hi Oracle! I was curious to see what the smallest-scale concert that Coldplay has ever done and how small would they go? Thanks! The Oracle replies: Obviously when the band started they were playing pubs & clubs with very small capacities. The last time they played anywhere as small was December 2011 when they went back

The full 15-song tracklisting for the soundtrack for 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' film was revealed today (September 26th), and Coldplay's latest track Atlas is the lead single on the album. Other artists announced include Christina Aguilera, The National, Patti Smith, Ellie Goulding and Antony and the Johnsons.   Christina Aguilera has contributed "We Remain," a new song that she started teasing just today. Rock chart-topper Lorde is also contributing what appears to be her version of Tea

Coldplay have co-written a song called We're A Team with James Newton Howard for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie according to ASCAP today. More on this is at the Atlas sub-forum on the messageboard now [thanks CP-EST & Tash]   We're A Team is affiliated to Chris, Jonny, Guy and Will as well as Howard, and Universal Music Publishing and Universal Pictures Music. It is not yet known whether the song will be the second from Coldplay to feature on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrac

This is our third installment of fan reviews of Coldplay's new song Atlas, released on Friday (6th September). On the day that Coldplay's official Twitter account announced No.1 positions for Atlas on eighteen iTunes charts around the world, read on for another eighteen Coldplayer mini-reviews of the track!A reminder also that since yesterday, we have had new content available in the Atlas sub-forum such as gifs, banners, and pictures, new song covers (various videos), a whole host of new media/

We have had so many new fan reviews of Coldplay's new song Atlas that we have expanded yesterday's article into a second separate page... with our promise of even more new fan and media reviews to follow soon. A second collection of review-bites are below, along with the very latest poll results on what you thought of the new track.   Since yesterday, we have also had new content available in the Atlas sub-forum such as gifs, banners, and pictures, new song covers (various videos), a whole host

Earlier on Thursday we posted a preview of Coldplay’s song Atlas for 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' soundtrack. But it looks like the full track - all 3m56s of it – has now leaked online via torrents a day early... and to a plethora of positive reviews from Coldplay fans.   After just the first hour since leaking, 54% of Coldplayers gave the song a perfect 10/10 in our sliding scale poll. Early media reviews were also favourable - website DirectLyrics in one of the first reviews said: "It de

A clip of the brand new Coldplay single, 'Atlas' has been revealed online. It was initially available for a short time via Apple's official website, but you can click here to listen to the preview from entertainment website PerezHilton.com now. Let us know what you thought of the preview (or indeed if you'd rather wait for the full song tomorrow) at the Atlas sub-forum on the messageboard now. [thanks Tash, tickkle & Blue Nails]Music wesbite Gigwise listened to it and described it as, "downb

Coldplay's forthcoming track, Atlas, will be 3 minutes and 56 seconds long, if today's reports citing iTunes are to be believed. [thanks coldpatrix & Tash]   Last week, prior to its release date being pushed back to 6th September (8th in the UK), Atlas was rumoured to be just 3m27s long, but today's latest sources appear as official as you get - iTunes, along with other digital retailers will be selling downloads of the song and have been taking pre-orders for a while now.     Meanwhile,