Coldplay News

Coldplay.com have confirmed the support acts for Coldplay's UK/Irish tour, which kicks off in Sheffield on November 29th. Three bands to share UK support slots which are as follows:   29th November - 10th December: Eugene Francis Jnr and the Juniors 11th December - 23rd December: The High Wire (apart from London dates)   London dates to be split as follows:   14th December: The Domino State 15th December: Eugene Francis Jnr and the Juniors 16th December: The High Wire   Click on the bands' names

Coldplay have announced full details of a UK tour, set to take place this winter. As the legendary Steve Lamacq is currently announcing on his radio show, Coldplay are playing ten concerts across England and Scotland in December.   The tour kicks off with two nights at Birmingham NIA on December 1, before the group end their trip with a two-night stint at London's O2 Arena, beginning on December 14. The gigs are as follows (and bookmark the following links):   1/12/08 - Birmingham, NIA [discussi

Further to our announcements earlier about the alteration to Coldplay's Liverpool concert date, it now appears that several dates within the UK tour have changed, some quite drastically. So far, they involve concerts at Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow and Belfast. So far Manchester, Birmingham and London remain unaltered. Anchorman/Messenger at the official site will be publishing a message with full details shortly.   Change summary (so far) as follows:   1) The single date at the Sheffield Ar

The general sale for Coldplay tickets for the European winter tour begins this Friday at 9.30am and viagogo predicts that the UK dates will sell out in just THREE minutes.   Remember: There will be a special ticket pre-sale for Coldplay online fans for each of the shows - the German show presale started today - the rest will follow tomorrow (Thursday). To access it, click the discussion links below and find details for all shows - and at the date/time stated enter the code MYLOXYLOTIX. The pre-

Coldplay's free download offering proved to be no shrinking violet when it went live on the band's Web site today (April 29).   The site slowed to a halt soon after new song "Violet Hill" -- which has a harder, more experimental sound than previous Coldplay releases -- was made available just after midday U.K. time. After several attempts, downloaders managed to obtain a copy of the track, the first from the upcoming album "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends." The Web site asks for the us

Coldplay’s new single 'Violet Hill' was downloaded for free by over 600,000 people in the 24 hours since it was made available at 12.15pm on Tuesday (April 29).   In the first 12 hours it was downloaded by 300,000. This figure doubled overnight as other countries logged on to Coldplay.com, the source of the free download. The single will be available free for a week and will then be released as a paid-for digital single on May 6.   Meanwhile, Last.fm have been keen to point out that the Coldpla

US visits to Coldplay.com increased 1,800% since the band's new single, Violet Hill, was released for free online, Hitwise said after comparing the daily US visits for April 29, 2008 versus April 27, 2008, MarketingCharts reports.   On April 29, 2008, the day the single was released on Coldplay.com, the website ranked as the most visited website among the Bands and Artists category. A little more than 1 out of every 40 visits to Bands and Artists category went to Coldplay's website.   Two days

Screenshots of Coldplay's new video, Violet Hill have surfaced on the internet. You can see them below. Coldplaying.com recently announced that new video for Violet Hill had been removed from television listings. Well now it appears someone has already played it!   More on this here [thanks k28]   Coldplay recently 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. It was originally thought that only 'Prospekt' was

Pink claims a first Hot 100 number one in her own right as Estelle’s American Boy accelerates into the Top 10 after being made available again as an individual download on iTunes.   Coldplay’s Viva La Vida exits the Top 10 after more than three months, dropping 7-14, but the UK retains a dual interest in the 10 with M.I.A.’s Paper Planes rising one place to a new peak of four and Estelle’s American Boy racing 53-9 in a remarkable turnaround in chart fortunes.   UK interest on the chart is led by

Sales of recorded music fell sharply in 2008, as consumers continued to migrate away from the CD format, large retailers reduced floor space for music and the recession dampened consumer spending during the critical year-end holiday shopping period.   Total album sales in the United States, including CDs and full-album downloads, were 428 million, a 14 percent drop from 2007, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Since the industry’s peak in 2000, album sales have declined 45 percent, althou

While overall U.S. music unit sales, which includes songs, albums, vinyl, music videos and ringtones, climbed 10.5% to 1.5 billion in 2008, total album sales -- including 10-song digital track groupings -- fell 8.5% to 428.4 million, according to a report from Nielsen SoundScan.   Sales of physical albums like CDs fell 20%, to 362.6 million, and are off by 45% since 2000. Meanwhile, digital album sales were up 32% in 2008, to 65.8 million units, and digital track sales grew 27% to reach a record

Microsoft has revealed the second iteration of their Xbox 360 karaoke franchise Lips, with Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" accompanying the official announcement of Lips: Number One Hits.   Perhaps the Lips: Uno listing on the Royalty Network was merely a code name for Lips: Number One Hits, the second installment of the singing game, due in October. The official announcement makes the game sound less like a full sequel and more like an expansion pack, forgoing mention of any new features in favor of

In a official press mailing, EMI Holland announced the X&Y follow up Viva La Vida and Death And All His Friends will be release on June 13 (Friday). Worldwide release is 16/17 June. Here's the annoucement translation:   Three years later after the release of X&Y the new coldplay record will be released on Friday june 13, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends. The band worked together in London, Barcelona and New York with producers Brian Eno and Markus Dravs to work on the long await

Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records.   Given everything contained within, it's fitting that Coldplay decided to saddle their new album with two seemingly disparate titles (it's called Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, in case you weren't aware). Because if anything, it's the most bipolar thing they've ever done.   Lyrically, it's obsessed with the duality of, well, everything, full of ruminations on life and death, corporeal pleasure and

Coldplay's week started off with a bang as they released the album version of Midnight and the official remix by Giorgio Moroder. It was proceeded by a chart explosion which was aided by the instant grat downloads from those who had pre-ordered Ghost Stories that resulted in Midnight topping the ITunes charts of over 53 countries.   The Ghost Stories campaign is pretty much underway and it is expected to blow full steam ahead from Friday where it is likely we will hear new songs off the album

Calling all Coldplayers! Next weekend (27th/28th September), will be Coldplay's weekend on the music channel, VH1. Here is their 'blurb' for the weekend promotion:   Formed in 1997, alternative rock band Coldplay has risen far and fast in 10 years to be considered the anointed heirs of U2 for the title of best band in the world. Coldplay's misty and melodious sound prevails with passion, charm and strength of character that connects audiences warmly to their room of sanity.   Viva La Vida - Or D

Chris Martin isn't the only Coldplay member celebrating the pitter patter of tiny feet.   The singer and wife Gwyneth Paltrow had their second child, Moses, in April. But now the 29-year-old must be thinking about having a creche on the band's tour bus. Drummer Will Champion and wife Marianne had baby girl, Ava, two weeks ago. And bassist Guy Berryman's wife Jo is halfway through her pregnancy.   "The guys are over the moon with all the baby stuff," a spokesperson for the band tells us. Mariann

Coldplay have now completed their 15 month World tour culminating in their recent tour of Australia & Asia and ending on July 19th in Tokyo, Japan, report the official site.   The Coldplayer has been updated throughout the tour, but keep an eye out for new entries from Miller highlighting the final dates. Penny Howle's photos document the trip fantastically. If you are not able to access the Coldplayer, join for free by signing up in the members' area [coldplay.com]. There will be more items

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - If you see strange beacons of light flashed through the city on Saturday night it's not a call for Batman, but rather a promotion for Coldplay's new album X&Y.   Either that, or Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has been hired by police as their crime-fighting super weapon.   The letters X and Y will be shone on to various buildings and domains, including George St cinemas between 7.30pm and 9.30pm, Taylor Sq between 11.30pm and 12.30am, and a Harbour Bridge pylon between 1a

Coldplay have replaced the rock tradition of illuminating the stadium with lighters and mobile phones during big anthems by handing out radio-controlled glow bands, the Daily Mail writes today, in a mini-review of Coldplay's X Factor performance on Sunday night. Below is the rest of the article. If you want to watch Coldplay on the X Factor again click here, and if you want to download the performance head to the Multimedia forum [thanks Denise, timyyy & Mojo Pin]   The band gave out 10,000

“ ‘People ask me, ‘What do you think of Coldplay?’ I have no opinion of Coldplay. I’m 50. I didn’t ask my dad what he thought of Roxy Music.’ ” His opinion should be “The cover of X&Y is a direct copy of my style.” Even Adrian Shaughnessy agrees….   At a time when invisible data streams of binary information fed straight to our desktops are doing away with the need for album covers, it’s odd to find a record sleeve as the subject of media comment and speculation. Odder still that the album c

With six nominations Nickelback dominate the nomination list for Canada's 2006 Juno Awards. The Albertan rock act garnered nominations for top group, fan's choice award and the single award for "Photograph." The band's "All the Right Reasons" (EMI Canada) was nominated in album and rock categories as well. The group and long-time co-producer Joey Moi also received a production nomination.   This year's Juno event will be celebrated over three days in Halifax, Nova Scotia beginning March 31 culm

Still debating on who should’ve got the #1 spot for the best song of 2006? What about the #1 Ringtone?   Today, UnlimitedRingtones.com, a leading mobile content provider, released the top 50 most popular Ringtones “The Best of 2006″ list with the Mosquito Ringtone reaching the number 1 spot. The top ringtones list includes primarily real music versions of some of the most popular songs of 2006, which can be found at UnlimitedRingtones.com/Best-Ringtones-2006/.   Real tunes versions of popular po

The most popular track played in war-torn Iraq last week was Johnny Cash’s Ring Of Fire, according to a music website.   While Nirvana’s hit Come As You Are topped polls in Afghanistan, claimed last.fm in The Sun. But troubled Lebanon’s favourite song was Pink Floyd’s Coming Back To Life. The website uses member’s profiles, including home addresses, to compile listening figures across the world, the newspaper said.   Last.fm’s polls showed Coldplay’s Clocks was the most listened to track in Chin

For those living in New Zealand, ZM (the radio station) is broadcasting the Brixton Academy gig tonight at 10pm. You can also listen to it from their online streaming at http://www.zmonline.com/   [Thanks museandme]   See pictures from this show here