Coldplay News

thanks to nmsv, alyssa, jc90, Silverspira, lumberjack2, uwwedoogie (for the banner) and many others here they are: (read the full article for the whole song!)   After you've read, sang to or plagarised them, you can discuss the Violet Hill lyrics here     Was a long and dark December From the rooftops I remember There was snow, white snow   Clearly I remember From the windows they were watching While we froze down below   When the future's architectured By a carnival of idiots on show You'd bett

You have been voting in your droves (quite literally) on what you thought of Coldplay's new single, Violet Hill. So far we've had over 1500 votes in over 12 hours. The results of the poll have alerted the British media, as you can see from the BBC website here.   The results so far are as follows:  

Coldplay's new single, Violet Hill, will be released as an internet download in three weeks time, according to Chris Martin.   Chris was spotted at the London IMAX cinema on Friday Afternoon (18/4/08) where he told one worker the single would be a download only. Chris was on his way to seeing the Rolling Stones musical film "Shine A Light". He was was with an Australian woman and and English man. Apparently he wore his hood up for most of the film...   More on this here [thanks Max]

UK fans can have their say and decide who should walk away with the trophy for Best UK Video at the MTV Video Music Awards.   Coldplay, Estelle, Leona Lewis, Duffy and the Ting Tings have all nabbed nods in the category, and MTV are calling on the British public to vote for their favourites. Coldplay picked up the nomination for their video Violet Hill, while Estelle's collaboration with Kanye West, American Boy, won her a nod. Leona's Bleeding Love video, Duffy's Warwick Avenue and the Ting Tin

The video to Coldplay's new single Violet Hill will officially be available from Monday 19th May. To whet your very large appetites for the video, Parlophone have posted a sneak peak of it on their official Youtube channel. You can watch it here   Yesterday's exclusive screening on Channel 4 of Coldplay's new video for Violet Hill had been removed from television listings. The video was replaced by a Sex and the City: World Premiere Special. Meanwhile, rumours that MTV Germany would broadcast Co

Coldplay’s video for “Violet Hill,” the first single from the band’s upcoming album, Viva La Vida, has been added to the highest rotations at MTV (Big 10), VH1 (large), MTV2 (Elite 8), mtvU (summa cum laude) and MTV Hits (Power). It will be the first video ever to receive a simultaneous premiere on MTV, VH1 and The N.   Lensed by acclaimed director/visual artist Asa Mader, “Violet Hill” premieres on VH1, MTV2, MTV Hits, mtvU, MTV Tr3s and The N on Monday, May 19th, and on MTV’s “TRL” on Wednesda

Many thanks to locust7 for sharing thoughts on Coldplay's new single, Violet Hill, which is due for release in May. Although details on how Violet Hill was offered to fans remains 'classified', Coldplaying.com can assure fans that this story and the following synopsis of the song are both true. The first listen was via an iPod a few days ago.   The structure of the song is very Coldplayish, but the general sound is different, in the way of being more mature, stronger and epic without pretending

1Live, a German Radio Station, has announced an exclusive Radio Premiere next Tuesday (29th April) of Coldplay's new single, Violet Hill.   For those who speak German:   Coldplay melden sich mit neuem Album zurück Wie 1LIVE exklusiv erfahren hat, wird die brandneue Single von Chris Martin und Co. nächste Woche Dienstag, also am 29.4., Radiopremiere haben. "Violet Hill" heißt der Song, und den hört ihr dann natürlich zuerst in 1LIVE. Das neue, vierte Album von Coldplay wird "Viva La Vida Or Death

Virgin media are reporting that Coldplay's LP4 will have a release date of May 2008. Their article reads:   At the start of another year, there's much anticipation about what 2008 will bring to the music scene. Here we look forward to the eagerly-awaited long players from some of the industry's biggest names. Expected: May - Coldplay - (Title TBC): Their first album Parachutes soundtracked virtually every student hall when it was released in 2000, while follow-up A Rush Of Blood To The Head enab

Virgin Radio have just launched their ‘Best of the Guests’ Podcast featuring the interview which Chris and Jonny gave to Virgin Radio DJ Ben Jones just before X&Y was released.   It also features all the out-takes from the interview which never made it to air.   For more details, and how to download it to your MP3 players, click here

Virgin Radio are compiling their Top 500 songs list for 2006. Click here to vote.   Remember to listen to Virgin Radio to hear the live countdown between Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 December 2006. Last year they counted down the Top 500 songs of all time between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2005. Coldplay were featured 9 times as follows:   25. Coldplay: Yellow 150. Coldplay: Trouble 188. Coldplay: Clocks 226. Coldplay: In My Place 249. Coldplay: Fix You 270. Coldplay: The Scientist 323. Coldpla

If you bought tickets for the Coldplay concert on May 29 at the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain, which was cancelled last Friday, you can get a full refund at the point of purchase. With the refund, you’ll get a password that will allow you to access special tickets for “great seats,” according to the Live Nation press realease, for the May 24 show in Hershey that were set aside only fans who purchased tickets to the show here.   The reason for the cancellation, according to the press relea

In celebration of Coldplay’s latest release VIVA LA VIDA, Filter Magazine, Virgin America, and Capitol Records have joined forces to get a few lucky winners out to see Coldplay’s upcoming Summer/ Fall tour dates in style. Four Grand Prize winners will not only win a pair of tickets to take a friend to see one of the following Coldplay shows, but they'll also arrive in style with roundtrip airfare for two on the coolest airline in the sky (ummm,yes, that is Virgin America). In addition, Filter ar

Coldplay's Chris Martin tonight has the opportunity to add to the three shiny new Grammys on the mantlepiece of his lavish London mansion. But refreshingly, the rock superstar with an A-list Hollywood wife has not lost sight of the most important people in the band’s incredible success — the fans.   In the year that has gained the band gongs and sales records all over the world, Chris plans to give away a FREE live album to people who go to their huge shows this summer. He hopes the gift will th

What happens when great art mixes with the Google homepage? We discover more Coldplay 'Viva La Vida' artwork, that's what.   iGoogle, the new service from the world's leading search engine, Google, has opened up the world to Coldplay's new artwork for the fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. Included in the images are Cemeteries Of London, Postcards From Far Away, Lost!, Reign Of Love as well as lyrics for some of the new songs.   Below are some newfound captions, but click h

Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, has sold more that 5 million copies. The total number of copies sold now amounts to 5,054,400, according to WorldWideAlbums.net.   Considering its 'world goals' and sales, the fourth album has defintely become the biggest music success of 2008. Album sales keeps on increasing in France (226,666 sold copies), in Ireland (more than 100,000), Japan (+ 5,970 copies), Korea (10,355 copies) and above all in Poland (already platinum wi

Sydney, AU. (Top40 Charts/ EMI MUSIC Australia) - If you like good stats and Coldplay, they're going hand in hand this week.   Coldplay continue to break records by putting an end to their Australian chart curse and holding the No.1 spot on the national ARIA album chart for the second week in a row. Their previous two No.1 albums 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' (2002) and 'X&Y' (2005) both only spent one week in the top spot before being dethroned.   On the singles front, this week also marks

Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" recently went up from pre-order from Apple's iTunes store, and those who make the pledge for the album will get immediate access to the title track. Viva La Vida (individual track), is now available for purchase on iTunes at a price of €0.99.   The new album comes with an acoustic version of the new song "Lost!" When you pre-order, the title track will download immediately and you'll receive an additional acoustic version of "Lovers In Japan

Coldplay song Viva La Vida has picked up an Ivor Novello award today. Here is Anchorman with more details:   Good afternoon. At today's Ivor Novello awards in London, Viva La Vida won the award for Best Selling British Song. The Ivor Novellos honour "excellence in British music writing", so it's a welcome addition to the band's collective mantelpiece. The award was collected on behalf of Coldplay by their long-standing publisher and friend, Caroline Elleray. Click here for the full list of winne

You can now buy two tracks from Coldplay's new album from the iTunes Store. Both Violet Hill and Viva La Vida are available to purchase individually from your local branch of the store. Here are some links...   UK store: Violet Hill / Viva La Vida US store: Violet Hill / Viva La Vida Greek store: Violet Hill / Viva La Vida   (The Greek one gets a mention because they're the highest-placed country from last night's Eurovision which has its own iTunes store. Congrats to Russia, who won.)   If you'

Coldplay have notched up their fifth consecutive week at the top of the UK albums chart with Viva La Vida. The album – full title Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – has already sold more than 600,000 copies.   Still going strong after 19 weeks in the chart is Rockferry by Welsh songstress Duffy at two, with Chris Brown’s Exclusive and We Started Nothing by the Ting Tings just behind.   Top five UK albums   1 Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – Coldplay (1) 2 Rockferry – Duffy (2

According to Spanish Media (El Periódico de Catalunya), Coldplay have chosen Barcelona to premiere the world exclusive of their long awaited fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. The media outlet also claimed that Coldplay had filmed a videoclip in Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona's cathedral.   This world exclusive (as yet of unknown format) will take place sometime in June, with an audience of only 1000 people. The venue is as yet undecided - but we do know that journalists fr

9% of the Brixton Puzzle and 6% of the MSG puzzle has been revealed, and with it an image with partial lyrics for 'Viva La Vida' and several unknown covers, including titles such as 'fingerprint', 'worry' and 'heart':     Click here to enter the Brixton competition (Full rules here) Click here to enter the MSG competition (Full rules here)   Keep up with progress here. No idea what we're talking about? Then click here [thanks ravrat, Jpw48, Zemy101 & BostonSportsTD].   As previously annou

Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends makes another big (46.6%) dip in sales but still has enough power to easily chalk up another week at the top of the artist albums chart, with sales of 58,509 being more than its two closest challengers – Duffy’s Rockferry (35,683) and Chris Brown’s Exclusive (18,157) combined.   Viva La Vida has now been number one for four weeks, equalling Coldplay’s personal record, as set by their last album, X&Y. At that stage of its life, X&Y had

The Brazilian arm of EMI Music (that also revealed the cover of the new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends) are reporting that the video of 'Viva La Vida', the second single taken from the new album, will be available from July 25th and will be broadcast on TV music channels across the world from the beginning of August.   Coldplaying.com recently reported that Coldplay were set to work with film director Anton Corbijn for the video. The band's spokesperson told NME the director and