Coldplay News

Chris Martin will lend a hand to his good pal, Bob Geldof once again as Band Aid 30 (based from the UK) will unite many of the big names in music for the re-recording of Do They Know It's Christmas? This time, the 30th anniversary of the Band Aid track will feature not the Phil Collins, Paul Weller and George Michael of but our very own Chris Martin alongside the likes of Ed Sheeran, One Direction and Emeli Sande. The cause this time round is to fight the globally emerging virus which has spre

Coldplay have been nominated four times at the American Music Awards 2008.   Voting for the awards is done online via ABC.com's American Music Awards website. The AMAs will be held on November 23rd at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. They will be aired live on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. To vote for Coldplay at these awards click here. Tickets for the event are on sale via Ticketmaster here.   Coldplay are up for:   Artist Of The Year Favorite Band, Duo Or Group (pop or rock music) Favorit

Danny McNamara hasn't ruled out a future hit single with his mate Chris Martin.   The Embrace singer, who helped Coldplay at the start of their career by giving them support slots at their gigs in 2000, has talked of a possible collaboration.   He said: "I've said to Chris that we should write a song together. He writes great verses and I write great choruses so we should do it at some point. It'll surely be a hit."   More on this here Newlywed Chris Martin has spoken for the first time about h

The future of Robbie Williams, Katy Perry and Coldplay record label EMI was on a knife-edge, as its private equity owner Terra Firma scrambled to meet a deadline today to raise around £120 million and avoid breaching banking covenants on £3 billion of loans. Sources suggested the chances were “about 50-50”.   New EMI boss Charles Allen was trying to seal a $300 million (£200 million) deal which would allow the record label to “outsource” its sales catalogue of albums in North America. Allen was

Chris Martin fears fans will start to hate Coldplay - because their music is played everywhere.   Chris attempts to ignore the obvious ubiquity of his work, as the possibility of overkill is one he refuses to contemplate. He says, "I don't think about it. If anyone says, 'Oh, your music is so ubiquitous,' I always regard that as a heavy criticism, and try to end the conversation."   And the 28-year-old star is ominous when quizzed as to whether he is concerned listeners will become fatigued by c

At the UKMIX site's latest UK album/single release schedule, which appears to be usually quite accurate, Coldplay's first single will be '42'.   No date is given for the release but it is beyond the week of 19th May 2008, which ties in with the release of the new album 'Viva la Vida' on 16th June.   More on this here [thanks DefDazz]  

On this day, 5 years ago... 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' was released. More on this here [thanks ImInMyPlace23]   A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second album by Coldplay, released on August 26, 2002 in the UK and on August 27 in the U.S.. It was as successful as its predecessor, Parachutes, debuting at #1 in the United Kingdom, moving 273,000 copies, and at #5 in the United States, moving 144,000 copies in the first week.   A Rush of Blood to the Head won the 2002 Grammy for Best Alternati

Could Coldplay's next album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, be its last? Such rumors have hounded the U.K. band ever since its quick rise to fame with its 2000 debut release, Parachutes, with the British press in particular repeatedly anticipating the group's imminent doom due to the stress of success and the strain of relationships between band members.   Delays in the arrival of the new album, originally expected this summer but now due from Capitol Records on August 26, only rekindled suggesti

Radiohead have topped a poll by the readers of Q Magazine to find the greatest album ever - narrowly beating themselves to the No1 spot.   The band's 1997 record OK Computer won the vote, with 1995's The Bends grabbing second position. Their more experimental follow-up Kid A also made the Top 10.   Almost one third of Q's 100 Greatest Albums Ever were recorded in the 1990s, making it the best ever decade for music. The newest record to make the list was Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head [p

Coldplay's hit single from their latest effort, 'Ghost Stories' will be featured in the 7 minute opening ceremony of the UEFA Champions League final, according to Globo Esporte. 'A Sky Full Of Stars' will head what looks set to be an entertaining game, in world football's most prestigious fixture, as Spain's Barcelona take on Italy's Juventus.     Here is the Google translated quote from Globe Esporte, with thanks to Coldplaybrasil.com & @coldplaymexico   The organization also took to

There are plenty of Coldplay remixes out there to admire but it's not often you hear a fusion of two Coldplay songs edited professionally. The following hybrid of 'A Sky Full Of Stars' and 'True Love' was made by DJ/Producer, Mirco Akuma and the resulting mix is outstanding! Check it out:   (Thanks to Dexynboy for posting the video)   The All-encompassing Coldplay REMIX list   ----- The Brand New Coldplaying App!   Features: Articles, new members area, latest news, live discussion,

A new book Access All Areas with Dave Hogan was launched today at the 2008 Q Awards. It contains autobigraphies/personality information as well as lots of pictures of celebrities that Dave Hogan has photographed, including Coldplay.   You can buy the book via Amazon here   Product Description:   Dave Hogan began his photography career at Stringfellows over 25 years ago and has since shot every major pop, rock and film star and red carpet event including Live Aid and Live 8.   He is Getty Images’

The excitement about Powter in America comes on the heels of the 34-year-old's phenomenal year across the ocean, where he has already sold a total of one million albums. "Bad Day" beat out Coldplay, U2, and James Blunt to top an airplay survey of the biggest European radio hits of the year, which is based on the playlists of 100 radio stations across the continent. He also topped the individual airplay charts for the year in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Australia, among others.   Po

BBC Radio has signed a deal to put the In Concert series on mobile via spodtronic (previously Spodradio)—it features over 1,000 exclusive concerts from bands including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, AC/DC, Coldplay, Muse, Chemical Brothers and Avril Lavigne.   Liquid Air Lab will launch the spodtronic live radio service, aiming for an exclusive carrier partner in each of 20 continental European countries (the UK isn’t included) and then plans to cross the pond into Canada and the USA. The serv

Coldplay’s ‘Twisted Logic’ European tour included Glastonbury, Dublin, London and Bolton. A pair of Christie’s flagship 25K Roadie projectors have been integrated into the dynamic stage backdrop. By Autumn 2005 Coldplay will be back on another European leg of the tour promoting their new album X & Y.   The ‘Twisted Logic’ tour provides a variety of formats the Roadie 25K’s have to endue including stadiums, arenas and festivals.   The photo series displays the AV set-up at the Coldplay gig at

At 3pm UK time, the official video for 'Magic' was released by Coldplay as predicted by Warned Bros Poland on Twitter a day before. The video for 'Magic' is in black and white with a classic silent film theme.   The video features 3 main characters :   Cecile, a beautiful young magicienne. Claude, her moustachioed husband, the famous but drunk magician Christophe, her assistant (the name sounds quite familiar!)   Click below to watch the official video now!       Thank you to the_e

Coldplay's Clocks has been chosen as number 1 of the top 750 of itunes music store in the Netherlands for the first part of 2007. The track beat 'Angels' by Robbie Williams and 'Under The Bridge' by Red Hot Chili Peppers. You can see the full list here [thanks JW Slijm]   Meanwhile Italian fans have voted Clocks as the 'most beautiful song', ahead of Fix You and The Scientist. See the full Italian list here [thanks coldpatrix].   You may remember back in December 2006, Coldplaying.com fans from

Yusuf Islam, who rose to fame in the 1970s as Cat Stevens, has won a second consecutive award for songwriter of the year in Britain.   The award was handed out during performing rights group ASCAP's annual U.K. awards ceremony Wednesday. The event honors the top British writers and publishers represented by the group. ASCAP collects royalties on behalf of its members from public performances of their compositions, such as on TV and the radio. Rival firm BMI held its awards ceremony last week, bu

You've seen 'The Scientist' video in reverse (if not, where have you been?), now you can watch and listen to 'Clocks' in reverse, here, Don't Panic here and In My Place here   [thanks twistedCLOCKS]

Already at least three bands have revealed that they’ll be on the Splendour in the Grass lineup in 2011 – The Kills, The Vaccines, and Cornershop – and now as we countdown the days to the official announcement the rumour mill has inevitably gone into overdrive, multiple online sources are reporting today.   Fuji Rock will be held from Friday 29th July to Sunday 31st July, and Splendour will be on during the same weekend, held at south-east Queensland’s Woodfordia site. Coldplay will play T in th

Reports that Coldplay are set to leave their record label EMI have been dismissed by a source at the label.   Stories have been appearing yesterday (January 8) suggesting that the band only had one more album to deliver following the release of their next studio album, rumoured to be called ‘Prospekt’ and due out later this year. The stories speculated that a greatest hits collection would follow and then the band would be free agents. However, a source at the label told NME.COM today (January

AOL today announced the year’s top searches in a variety of categories, based on the people, places and topics that received the largest volume of search queries on AOL Search (http://search.aol.com), on mobile devices (http://wap.aol.com), and the most searched for Viral Videos, Music Videos and Television Moments on Truveo.com (http://www.truveo.com), a one-stop destination where consumers can find millions of videos from across the Web.   Top Bands: 1) Coldplay; 2) Fall Out Boy; 3) My Chemic

Ashley Best has made a dance remix of Chris Martins 'Cornflake Door' as sung last month on the Radio 1 show.   I got a house with some cheese windows...   Full details and download links here

Coldplay have featured twice in the top places on Radio 3FM's annual top 100 album list 'De Hemelse 100'.   'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' landed in 2nd place and 'Parachutes' in 13th.   Wondering what came first? You can read the full 100 list here

The opening track on Coldplay's 15 year old debut album, 'Parachutes' has been voted as the most popular! Over 650 of you have voted on our site-wide poll, which saw 'Everything's Not Lost' take an early lead, before 'Don't Panic' surged into pole position.   Top 3 track on 'Parachutes', voted by you   After 689 votes.   1) Don't Panic - 236 votes (34%) 2) Yellow - 99 votes (14%) 3) Everything's Not Lost - 68 votes (10%)   The official video for Coldplay's chilled out album opener: