Coldplay News

The Kylie / Coldplay duet ‘Lhuna’, which Chris Martin has been raving about, finally saw its release, on World AIDS Day (1st December). The song was available via (RED)'s new digital music magazine, (RED)WIRE.   Rock guitarist Joe Satriani began legal proceedings against Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed early December in Los Angeles federal court, claimed the Coldplay song "Viva La Vida" incorporates "su

November saw Coldplay's music video in support of their new single 'Lovers in Japan' officially released worldwide via the Parlophone YouTube channel at midnight on Wednesday 4th November (GMT, EST-5). Because of its 'leak' on iTunes, many of you had already seen the video enough times to make a judgement on it, so you let us know what you thought of the video on our new poll and also the discussion thread (already 40 pages long by the time of the midnight release!). At around 3m45s in the video

October saw a letter from Chris Martin, which was posted from Rotterdam at coldplay.com, outlining the tracklisting for the forthcoming 'Prospekt's March' EP. Prospekt also delivered the exciting new news on Coldplay's forthcoming Prospekt's March EP, after a last minute extension of tracklisting.   Glass Of Water made its debut in Antwerp, and Roadie #42 mused: "So there we have it - Glass Of Water is now out in the wild. The footage on the site came from Andy Bramley, the tour's wonderful vide

August started with several new interviews, and Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland appearing on Canadian TV programme eTalk and they confirmed that the band had finished working on some songs that would be released in EP format. Two new Coldplay interviews aired in the UK, the first one on BBC Radio 2 with Dermot O'Leary and the second on BBC6 Music. During the second one Chris Martin confirmed details of future Coldplay releases to a well respected Steve Lamacq. Here's what Steve's blog

July started with a competition for aspiring bands. In association with Capital Records, Coldplay started the hunt for six bands to join them at the summer shows in the United States. Support roles are required for concerts in Chicago, San Jose, Philadelphia, DC, Boston and Hartford. Interested acts should visit coldplayontour.com and can apply using YouTube clips of their band at work.   Lucky KROQ listener, Jessica, won a competition and had Coldplay round to play in her backyard. If that wasn

In June, Coldplay couldn't prevent a plague like the massive fire at Universal Studios -- the site of the MTV awards -- and the world appeared unchanged when lead singer Chris Martin sat at the end of the stage to herald the end of the 'Viva La Vida' Performance at the show.   Coldplay took an unusual iTunes record, with new album Viva La Vida set to become the best-selling album pre-sale ever released in the history of Apple's music store, Apple insiders informed us. Not just that, but Coldplay

In May, it was announced that 2 million people downloaded Coldplay’s new single ‘Violet Hill’ while it was available as a free download. The song, which was the first off the band’s new album ‘Viva La Vida’, was uploaded onto the band’s website on April 29th. Had the song been chart eligible it would have outsold last week’s Top-40 four times over.   Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" went up from pre-order from Apple's iTunes store, and those who made the pledge for the albu

In April, the tracklisting to Coldplay's fourth album was officially announced. Interestingly, the album appeared to be called 'Viva La Vida' and had two interesting omissions - Chinese Sleep Chant and The Escapist. Coldplay also arrived in Sicily, Italy to shoot the video for the first single, Violet Hill, taken from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.   Not only that, Coldplay also unveiled the album artwork to ‘Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.’ The band used a classic paintin

In March we learned that Coldplay would headline the first-ever Pemberton Festival, set for July 25-27 in Pemberton, B.C., and also that the band were reportedly being paid a whopping £1.2million ($2.4million) to play the Summer Sonic festival in Japan later in the year. If they gigged for 75 minutes on both nights, they trousered a jaw-dropping £8,000 ($16,200) a minute. Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival bosses were rightly chuffed with themselves, calling Coldplay "the ultimate blue chip act of ou

February 2008 starts with an invitation for Chris Martin from Cradle of Filth's lead singer...   British rocker Dani Filth wanted to go head-to-head with Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin in a boxing match. The founding member of extreme metal band Cradle Of Filth branded indie frontman Martin a "sap" saying he would be his first choice to have a fight with. He says, "Probably that c**t Chris Martin from Coldplay. I wouldn't even wait for the bell. "Absolutely everything about him makes me want to

2008 starts with glossy Coldplay...   The Q Magazine article featuring Coldplay hit the shelves in early January and contained some more information on the new album that we didn't already know at the start of the year. The new release date was rumoured to be May/June 2008.   Stars continued to fall on Coldplay.com - particularly in the 2008 section where Coldplay turned 10 years old! Prospekt sneaked in a January entry, saying: Back home for a few days. A brief rest before the final push. Anoth

Coldplay's Jonny Buckland celebrates his 31st birthday travelling to Germany today.   Sept. 11: Actress Betsy Drake is 85. Actor Earl Holliman is 80. Movie director Brian De Palma is 68. Rock musician Mickey Hart (the Dead) is 65. Singer-musician Leo Kottke is 63. Rock singer-musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 55. Sports reporter Lesley Visser is 55. Actor Reed Birney is 54. Singer-songwriter Diane Warren is 52. Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) is 51. Actor Scott Patterson is 50. Rock musician Mick T

iUSED2RULEtheWORLD has posted some excellent Coldplay scans based on recent Viva La Vida photoshoots for the tour programme. Some of the images are below, and you can see all the pages from the Viva La Vida tour programme here [thanks iUSED2RULEtheWORLD]  

The new album hits stores around the world from tomorrow, and here's what it looks like front and back. There are also lyrics in the Japanese version: [Lyrics1] [Lyrics2] [Lyrics3] [Lyrics4] [Lyrics5]   More on this here (add your scans!) [thanks mynickismyname, Leche & othersongs]  

It has become a Coldplaying tradition that every couple of months the World Of Music forum holds a mixtape exchange. Over previous years it has been run by Coldplayers 'Eglantine', 'Redgirl76' and 'The Escapist'. To start off the summer, 'Kite' has once again stepped up to the role of hosting the next, the 6th, mixtape exchange.   The idea is that you get together a mix of songs that people may not have heard, that you enjoy, and sound well together (or that were just pulled out of a hat - thou

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to choose between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade poll.   It's been an action-packed ten years for the music industry and it's your opportunity to pinpoint your standout albums since 2000. For example, NME's top 50 albums of the decade list was topped by the Strokes album 'Is This It'. Meanwhile, Spinner honoured Amy Winehouse’s soulful 'Back To Black

In one of several end-of-the-decade mega polls underway at Coldplaying, we're asking you to choose between 20 and 100 of your favourite albums of the noughties in Coldplaying's Album Of The Decade poll.   It's been an action-packed ten years for the music industry and it's your opportunity to pinpoint your standout albums since 2000. For example, NME's top 50 albums of the decade list was topped by the Strokes album 'Is This It'. Meanwhile, Spinner honoured Amy Winehouse’s soulful 'Back To Black

It has become a Coldplaying tradition that every couple of months the World Of Music forum holds a mixtape exchange. Over previous years it has been run by Coldplayers 'Eglantine', 'Redgirl76' and 'Kite'. To start off the new year and the new decade, 'The Escapist' has stepped up to the role of hosting the next, the 5th, mixtape exchange.   The idea is that you get together a mix of songs that people may not have heard, that you enjoy, and sound well together (or that were just pulled out of a

The time has again come to have a good long look at the music world around us and ask ourselves: "What albums did we like this year?" [thanks Space Cadet]   We are now accepting your favourite albums from the past 12 months in preparation for the December countdown in the World Of Music forum at the Coldplaying messageboard. All you have to do is make a personal list of at least 5 and as many as 25 of your favorite original studio albums (no live albums, eps, compilations, or rereleases, sorry)

A reminder that Thursday is the hour-long live tracklist on Absolute Radio which features tracks chosen by you, the Coldplayers, as part of Coldplaying's victory in the final of the Live Stories competition. We beat several fan forums on our way to winning this competition, including representatives of Bowling For Soup, The Cribs, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse and U2.   You can listen to tonight's virtual festival through the Absolute Radio webstream at their website, or via the Coldplaying toolbar - whi

MusicOHM have a positive review of Jon Hopkins' new album, Insides, which features a track heard partially on Coldplay's Viva La Vida ending. Don't forget you can download those nine minutes of 'electro loveliness', as Anchorman put it, for free by clicking here. Here's the review:   Jon Hopkins is a busy enough man not to have bother with releasing solo albums, but we should be thankful that he finds the time to pop into the studio because Insides is another beautiful and fully realised work of

As previously reported, just days after their appearance at the Grammy Awards, the performances by Coldplay and Katy Perry are now available to buy. Coldplay performed ‘Lost’ with Jay-Z and ‘Viva La Vida’ and the performance is now available to download as an MP3 and/or a video (you can get both for $2.49) at the US store.   If you're impressed with that sound and you haven't yet purchased the Prospekt's March edition of Viva La Vida (ie, the one featuring all 19 tracks from thealbum and the EP)

Here is the piano sheet music for Coldplay's ‘Violet Hill’ and “Viva La Vida”. They’re in zip format, with pictures of the music to print out. Enjoy!   Coldplay “Violet Hill” Coldplay “Viva La Vida” also: Coldplay “The Scientist” [pdf] Coldplay “Speed of Sound” [pdf] Coldplay “Trouble” [pdf] Coldplay “Amsterdam” [pdf]   Via http://modernpianomusic.com/

Thanks to this week's release of the band's new album, 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends', Coldplay are currently dominating the charts over at Last.fm.   You'll find them at the top of the Top Artists Charts and tracks from the new album take up 8 of the top 10 spots on the Top Track Charts. Radiohead is the only other band in the top ten, with 'Nude' and 'All I Need' coming in at spots #9 and #10, respectively.   Coldplay's Life in Technicolor however is missing from the charts, as is

Who deserves the Album of the Year 2007? To find the best, worst and most inane of this past year, Coldplaying turns to you.   Put forward your list here. You can list 5 - 25 original albums, released in 2007. Rank determines the points an album gets. Deadline for submissions: December 15 10:00pm EST (3am GMT). [Thanks Erin]   Is your favourite album being ignored? Write a blurb about it! To see last year’s thread go here. To see last year's countdown go here. For ideas, check out the mid year