Coldplay News

Digital albums sales in the UK this year have already passed the total amount sold in 2010, according to the NME today. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has revealed that 21.3 million digital copies of albums have been sold in 2011, breaking the record set last year with two months of the year remaining, according to the Official Charts Company.   They also report that this year, digital albums represented 26.2% of all albums sales, which is up from 17.5% from 2010. The figures have been

A reminder that, until midnight on Sunday night, anyone who pre-orders the 7-inch vinyl boxset from Coldplay's UK/Rest Of The World online store will be entered into a competition. One lucky winner will then have their boxset signed by all four members of the band!   Meanwhile we asked you to vote on whether you will be buying the Singles 1999-2006 boxset. The results so far are as follows (Coldplay fans are divided!):     Cast your vote here

Ultimate-Guitar.com posted an article this week claiming the title of Coldplay's fifth album is 'The Beehive'. Whether or not this is a mistake, or just early judgment is uncertain. Here's the full quote: 'The Beehive' is a follow-up to 2008's 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' and is set to be released by the end of the year. More discussion on this at the Coldplay forum here [thanks TyM218]   Meanwhile in previous album news, Coldplay have been named in Spin's 125 Best Albums of the p

Rumours are spreading that Coldplay will be touring Europe at the end of 2011 and into the early part of 2012, performing in arenas across the continent. According to Coldplayer lerene, the band will be taking in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Portugal and multiple dates in France and Germany. As yet all these dates are unconfirmed and the source is still unknown. Any tour dates, will of course be confirmed via Coldplay

Some very disappointed Coldplayers who paid top dollar to see Coldplay over the last few days at the Hollywood Bowl ended up getting the cold shoulder instead. People who found some of the tickets on Craigslist, Stubhub, eBay, and other Internet sites -- and paid in the $200-$400 range per seat -- were stunned and disappointed to find that the tickets were fakes. [Catch up on the latest tweets, pictures, videos from last night's show at the Coldplay Live forum - Hollywood Bowl night 3 - now.]  

The band have a few TV appearances coming up. On September 12th they will be Jay Leno's musical guests on The Tonight Show, airing at 11.35pm EST on NBC. Then on the same channel on September 26th at 12.35am they will perform on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.   In addition to this, if you have checked the canada section you will know the band will be appearing on Canadian music channel MuchMusic's Intimate & Interactive show on September 22nd at 8pm ET, with an additional Countdown to Coldpl

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have added to their family. Their second child, a son named Moses Martin, was born this weekend, the actress's rep tells people.com.   The Shakespeare in Love Oscar winner, 33, and her British-born Coldplay frontman husband, 29, already have a daughter, Apple, born May 14, 2004.   Moses is the name of a song Martin wrote for his wife in 2003.   More on Moses Martin here

Via Debs from the official site:   Back in March you may remember we filmed the shows in Toronto. Just to update you, this footage will now be screened as a televised event sometime in the future. When we know the full details we’ll of course let you know more.   There's a new Ezine in production which will feature an exclusive interview with the band's photographer, Penny Howle. Watch out for that in September.   You can discuss this here [thanks just_cass]   Thanks to DefDazz for the followin

Coldplaying messageboarders have splashed out on some major auctions in Coldplay's 'End Of Decade Clearout Sale' hosted on eBay. In total, Coldplayers from this site have spent almost £70,000 ($120,000) on treasured items over the last few days.   The original Parachutes globe (as seen on the cover of the first album, pictured) was won by Coldplayer NumbersGirl for a whopping £8,100 - around $13,000. Moments earlier, another Coldplayer lo&loud had announced that he was the proud owner of Chr

Glastonbury Festival 2011 resale tickets were snapped up in under two hours this morning (Sunday) as fans eager to see the likes of U2, Coldplay and Beyonce tried desperately to buy unwanted and unsold passes from the original ticket sale.   Sources suggested that a record number of festival-goers had registered to buy tickets in the resale after Beyonce was confirmed to headline the Sunday (26 June). "Apologies to those of you who didn't get a ticket," tweeted the festival on their GlastoFest T

Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has reportedly given birth to a baby boy, report entertainmentwise.com.   According to Perez Hilton, Paltrow under went a caesarean section in a New York hospital this weekend. It is believed that she and her Coldplay husband Chris Martin have welcomed a baby boy into the world. People magazine have reported this afternoon that the happy couple have named their new baby boy Moses Martin... how very biblical!   The couple already have a young daughter, Apple who

As previously reported, White Shadows was a planned Australia radio only release for today (25th September), but that is now not happening.   Source: Coldplay.com

Three Coldplay demos from circa December 2005 have surfaced online this weekend - Bloodless Revolution, Lovers In Japan and a day later came St. Stephen. They came from the early Viva La Vida era, prior to the band travelling to North America, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong in 2006 and Latin America for the tour in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in February and March of 2007. This means that Lovers In Japan is now nearly fours years old!   You can hear the demo for Bloodl

Coldplay played the Austin City Limits festival in Texas last night (16th September 2011) in their first festival appearance back after a 5 week break. Up In Flames (UIF) and Don't Let It Break Your Heart were NOT played in Coldplay's festival performance in Austin despite UIF having been debuted at the Taping event the previous night. Paradise, however, was added to the setlist instead of Life Is For Living. They continued with their cover of Rehab by the late Amy Winehouse.   The concert was s

Stay tuned for a regularly updated post about the highlights of Chris Martin's big special night as the DJ of Zane Lowe's show at BBC Radio 1 today from 7 pm.   Before taking over the DJ show, Chris talked to Scott Mills, saying he'd brought a keyboard into the studio to do a 2-hours-jazz-show: "So if you're into jazz - tonight's the night!" In addition, when asked whether drinking your wife's breast milk would be fine, Chris simply replies "Yeah", also saying he'd drunk breast milk himself alre

So far to date Coldplayers have confirmed that cinemas in Florida, California, Texas and Washington DC have been selling tickets for Coldplay's forthcoming Glastonbury 2011 performance next month (25th June), with more shows expected to be available across the US and Canada, including (but not limited to) Ottawa. To check your local listings, Fandango is a good place to start.   Although it is unlikely that it will be screened live in cinemas as it happens in Pilton, UK, the performance is set t

The last 2 dates of the US Arena tour go on pre-sale soon and all registered coldplay.com fans will get an email about this as usual later today.

Coldplay staved off strong competition from Foo Fighters and the Backstreet Boys to rule the U.S. pop albums chart for a second week, according to sales data released Wednesday.   X&Y (Capitol) sold 323,000 copies in the week ended June 19, followed by Foo Fighters' "In Your Honor" with 310,600 copies and Backstreet Boys' "Never Gone" with 291,000 copies. The total for "X&Y" stands at 1.1 million copies.   Foo Fighters earned their highest Billboard 200 position and career-best sales wee

An announcement has been made with the details for the last few presale and general sales for the forthcoming US tour.   For full details and links to the pre-sales, click here   [Thanks Clockpolitiks]

After arriving on the radio on Friday (June 3), Coldplay's 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' (ETIAW) blasts onto Billboard's Rock Songs airplay chart at No. 21. The song registered 3.9 million audience impressions on 58 stations, according to Nielsen BDS, despite having been released more than halfway through the May 30-June 5 chart tracking week. All according to Billboard online today.   The track concurrently launches on the Triple A adult alternative airplay chart at No. 23 and Alternative Son

In the inside Entertainment magazine Coldplay have confirmed they will begin their North American tour on July 28th and their 9-week-long first leg will feature Franz Ferdinand and Rilo Kiley as opening acts. [thanks Owen]   You can read the full excusive article online here and more discussion here

The limited presale for the new US tour started yesterday. The following dates have now sold out of advance tickets, the others are in still in presale.   January 25: Grady Cole Center, Charlotte, NC January 28: Verizon Wireless Theater, Houston, TX January 31: Nextstage, Grand Prairie, TX   The public sales for these dates start from the 15th. Please check the official site for more information about ticket sales.

Wednesday the 25th January saw the second leg of the U.S tour begin in Seattle (congratulations on their impending Superbowl debut!).   The support came from the more than capable Fiona Apple, well worth getting there early for. The set has stayed pretty much the same, with a few extras, but went down a storm.   Don't forget to check out our free members area to get updates from the road, courtesy of Miller's diaries on the Coldplayer.   Source: Coldplay.com

The support acts for the forthcoming Coldplay U.S tour dates are:   2-26 August: Black Mountain 30 August - 30 September: Rilo Kiley

In a way, history repeats itself on the next Billboard album sales chart. After three weeks of ruling record sales, Coldplay have been overthrown, and it took a honky-tonkin' American — country legend George Strait — to end the British band's reign over the albums chart.   Somewhere Down in Texas, Strait's newest offering, claims the chart's #1 spot, moving close to 245,000 copies its first week out. Strait's latest shelves Coldplay's run at the top, jostling the rockers' X&Y two spots to a