Coldplay News

ATTENTION COLLECTORS! To celebrate Barnes & Noble's Annual 'Vinyl Day', they have teamed up with Coldplay to repress their debut album Parachutes on a gorgeous orange record. This is without a doubt an excellent buy or gift for Coldplay Collectors alike![perfectpullquote align=right" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size="]An excellent buy or gift for Coldplay Collectors alike![/perfectpullquote]   [dropcap]Coldplay’s first album, released in 2000, was a quiet, introspective antidote to th

Fatherhood has spurred campaigning Chris Martin to do even more work for charity.   Chris has always been passionate about causes like fair trade and the third world debt - but has become even more committed about making the world a better place since his actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow gave birth to baby daughter Apple in May last year.   He explains, "Being a new father has made me look at the world differently. I'm a father who travels a lot and has seen how rich nations like ours exploit poorer

Music fans were today on course to help give Coldplay their third number one album.   Early sales figures for X&Y - which was released yesterday - indicate that the album is outselling nearest rival the White Stripes by three to one and looks set to top the charts this weekend.   According to Dave Murray, manager of HMV, Forestside, music fans across the UK were out in force from early yesterday to snap up the hugely-anticipated album.   "From early yesterday morning Coldplay's new album has

On December 1st, ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History will join with Gcast.com to launch the first ONE.ORG podcast. The World AIDS Day ONEcast will feature former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, Bono, U2 lead singer and co-founder of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade for Africa) and Chris Martin of Coldplay, along with members of the faith community and other ONE supporters.   A podcast is an audio recording, from a 10-sec sound to a 30- min radio show, stored as an MP3 file that is easily

Coldplay in Profile (Music) Starting: 23:50 on Wednesday 1st February. Duration: 30 minutes Showing on Scottish. and ITV1   Coldplay in Profile (Music) Starting: 23:50 on Wednesday 1st February. Duration: 30 minutes Showing on Grampian.   Oasis vs. Coldplay (Entertainment) Starting: 09:00 on Thursday 2nd February. Duration: 1 hour Showing on VH2.   100 Greatest 21st Century Anthems (Music) Starting: 15:00 on Saturday 4th February. Duration: 3 hours Showing on VH2.   100 Greatest 21st Century Ant

Voting has now ended in the MTV Australia VMA Awards 2006. Coldplay are nominated in the following categories:   Album of the year Viewers choice award   The Awards ceremony takes place on 12th April 2006 on MTV at 7pm [Thanks Nik]

At a press conference in Hong Kong, the band's frontman made both a jab at Vice President Dick Cheney and fueled speculation that Coldplay may go the route of Weezer and disband.   When talking about why they don't get into fights with other bands, Chris Martin spoke out against the second in command, "You know, if you don't like [the music], just listen to something else. We'd much rather have a fight with Dick Cheney, you know - people who really do things that we consider to be bad." The com

A very nice girl over at PlayLouder.com, Melissa, had the following to say when I asked why Coldplay's set was not being webcast on their site:   "There are a lot of reasons, really. First of all, we were restricted by the bands that BBC filmed, and those were only the ones on the Pyramid and Other Stages after 1pm (so Coldplay would've been okay on that count). The other big factor was getting clearance from the bands and their record companies, and sadly, quite a few did not wish to be webcast

Coldplay after their visit to Chile: we'll be back with a massive show"   In a meeting with the press Coldplay thanked their Chilean fans and told why they didn't show any new songs in their concerts. Coldplay is not a band of lots of risks... in their music or their words.   "What do you think about the chilean public?" asked in a meeting with the press, yesterday in the Hyatt Hotel. "Fantastic, we're used to a lot more disgusting, this have been really great" Says Chris Martin, the frontman of

Check out the 1999 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   1 July 1999 Manchester Roadhouse This is where we signed our first autographs! Nowadays, albums which haven't been signed by us are worth more than the ones that have... GB   You can discuss this star here onwards.    

Coldplay have posted a satirical politically-charged video on their official YouTube channel, entitled Dancing Politicians. The video is directed by Mat Whitecross who also directed Bigger Stronger. The real video to Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill will officially be available from Monday 19th May shortly after 11am (GMT).   Don't forget, Coldplay will perform “Violet Hill” at the “2008 MTV Movie Awards,” which airs live on June 1st at 8:00pm/7c from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City,

24/7 is giving you and 3 friends the opportunity to see Coldplay - Live at the world's most popular venue, The O2 Arena, London.   They're giving away 10 prizes of 4 tickets, yes 40 tickets to see this amazing concert from their very own private V.I.P. Suite. All you've got to do is register a few details here and answer this simple question:   What flavour are 24/7 Energy Strips? (Hint: Caffeine!)   To qualify to enter the Competition you must be resident in the United Kingdom. The email addre

Coldplay: How We Saw the World... Part 1   If you haven't yet seen it, or want to re-live the moment again, you can see Coldplay's 2006 live performance at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, featuring a mix of songs from old favourites Clocks and Yellow to more recent hits Speed of Sound, Fix You and Talk. Tonight at 22:30h on VH1.   Meanwhile, you can mull over the nominees for Best Act Ever at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. The artists nominated for this heavyweight title are showcased in

Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends was the best-selling rock album of 2008, according to Billboard's year-end survey.   The British band's fourth studio effort sold 2.15 million copies and finished second overall only to rapper Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which moved 2.88 million copies to land in the top spot. The next biggest-selling rock release was Kid Rock's 2007 outing, Rock 'n'Roll Jesus, which finished the year at Number Four with more than two million copies sold, desp

Shane Warne took Coldplay frontman Chris Martin on a secret visit to Flowerdale last week. The singer and the spinner spent a day visiting bushfire relief centres in the area.   Martin asked to be taken into the fire zone as he wanted to get a greater insight into the disaster, and the relief and rebuilding plans. "Chris basically wanted to know what he was singing for," a source said. Warne and Martin are great mates, and the spinner offered to take him. Warne has visited several relief centre

After more than a year of touring, it certainly seems Coldplay has learned how to please an audience. Taking the stage at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Sunday night, Coldplay performed a superb set list full of mega-hits and fan favorites, encouraging crowd sing-alongs and maintaining a high level of energy throughout the two-hour show, writes The Examiner.   From a Blue-Danube introduction that had everyone clapping along, to the giant-sized yellow balloons that fell upon the c

Six members of Tiverton Town Band enjoyed the biggest ‘gig’ of their lives on Saturday night... supporting Coldplay in a concert at Exeter Castle, writes the County Gazette tonight.   They stepped in at the last minute after singer Lily Allen pulled out with a throat infection, and one of the lucky six was Leah Ellis, a massive Coldplay fan, who said this week: "The day was surreal. In the morning we played for Macmillan nurses at Exeter Airport and in the evening we were on the same stage as Co

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 1700 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   November 12, 2010 - submitted by Karen M, Colombia Q. Q.Dear Oracle, the hand that is in the picture of the Blue Room EP is from one of the guys? Or is from another person? Thanks! Bye. The Oracle replies: Anchorman recently interviewed the designer of the Blue Room EP's cover; the hand in the photo does not belong to anyone in the band. The article explains the picture was sourced from a magazine.

More questions answered by The Oracle... (over 2000 questions now answered - submit yours now!)   October 4, 2011 - submitted by Micaela, Argentina Q. Hey Oracle. I wanted to know if Coldplay is coming or wants to come to Buenos Aires, Argentina again. And if it is, do I have to wait four years? I know it's not a very interesting or bizarre question, but it would mean a lot to me if you could answer that. My respects to every person (or Oracle) who gets this. The Oracle replies: Would you believ

The KIIS FM website have now uploaded some pictures of Chris Martin’s visit on 17th July - you can view them here. You can also listen to the whole interview or download it in the multimedia forum.  

If you haven't already heard of it, How We See The World is a benefit album comprised entirely of music by members of Coldplaying.com. All proceeds from the sale of this album will go to the Oxfam Unwrapped program. For full details of purchasing and queries visit the messageboard [thanks TracieMorgan]   Here's how to order your copy:   1) The Coldplaying Charity Club shop (For Hard Copy) 2) eMusic - eMusic works with subscription plans. There is a free trial and then a monthly fee for either $9

I mentioned yesterday, nothing is really expected to happen today with major live dates happening at the end of the week, oh how that proved to be wrong! Coldplay made a surprise visit to the BBC Radio 1 studios just after mid-day in London where they performed Magic and Oceans which was heard for the first time to those who did not attend the secret shows (which is pretty much all of us!). The band revealed they will be headlining Radio 1's big weekend in Glasgow with the delighted Will Champio

Rockers Coldplay have been accused of approaching their music careers like "f***ing middle-class businessmen" who are only motivated by money.   The Yellow hitmakers have fallen victim to the scathing tongue of cult The Fall singer Mark E. Smith who recounts the time an American taxi driver overheard the band discussing business in the back of his cab - leading him to believe they were stockbrokers.And charismatic Smith insists if singer Chris Martin and his bandmates were his children, he'd dre

Here's a picture that was taken of Chris with children from Ghana:     Chris Martin has revealed fatherhood has driven him to try to make the world a better place.   Chris - who has an eight-month-old daughter Apple with actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow - was speaking after an emotionally- charged visit to impoverished Ghana, West Africa.   He said: "Being a new father has made me look at the world differently. I want the world to be a better place when my daughter has grown up."  

A full length interview that Dutch TV program '2 vandaag' (2 today) recorded on the day of the secret gig in Amsterdam (april 6th) can be found here   [thanks Martijn]