Chris Martin Confirms: Coldplay Aren't Splitting Up

Coldplay don't plan to retire early after all, reports Chartattack.

Two weeks after singer Chris Martin hinted that next year may be the last for the world's biggest selling band, he says that's not the case and that the band plan to record and release the follow-up to Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends in 2009. "We're proceeding as if it's our last, because it's the only way to proceed," Martin told Rollingstone.com. "You've got to have deadlines, you know. What that means is we're going to pour everything we can into next year and not think beyond that. We always say that and we always mean it. But every time we say it, someone writes that it's over. I don't think we'll ever split up, but we have to do a lot before we're 33."

Coldplay have apparently started experimenting with new material in various studios. They're in the midst of a U.K. tour and will perform in Japan and Australia in February and March. Jay-Z, who collaborated with Coldplay on "Lost+" on the newly released Prospekts March EP, will open for the band at three U.K. stadium shows next September.