Coldplay News

Coldplay may have decided on 'Viva la Vida' for the name for the fourth album as far back as March 2007, Coldplaying.com can reveal.   'Viva La Vida' can have different meanings, and is translated into various phrases, depending on the language and culture. The first meaning that comes to mind of any Spanish speaker when hearing "Viva la Vida" is 'Live Life' or 'Live The Life'. A reverse translation of 'Long Live Life' would be 'La Vida Vive', or 'the life lives on'.   But for those born and rai

We've been asking you what you think of Coldplay's latest album title, Viva la Vida. So far we've had hundreds of votes and counting, and there have been mixed results, both on the poll below and on the forums. There have been plenty of interesting comments. Some of them are below:     I personally love Viva La Vida. To be honest, WHATEVER it was called someone would have hated it and said it's cheesy [thanks Fixed]   It reminds me of Live's 5th album...Ed Kowalczyk wanted to call it 'Ecstatic

Before Coldplay began rehearsing "The Scientist" for the VMA Awards, frontman Chris Martin was told that a good chunk of the song had to be cut off at the end to save time.   At the conclusion of the first run-through, Martin was signaled when to end. "How much time have they taken off of it?" he asked incredulously, then laughed. "Why don't we just come out and bow without playing a note?"   Drummer Will Champion caused Martin to start laughing during one of the six takes of the song by shiftin

Vote Coldplay members Into The Greatest Indie Band Of All Time!   As a new poll ranks the Top Ten best rock singers, drummers, bassists and guitarists, XFM have decided to launch a vote to find out who would be in the World’s Greatest Ever Indie Supergroup.   You can vote for Chris Martin as best singer and Jonny Buckland as best guitarist by clicking here

Vote for your high-street favourite! Vote here and you could win a luxury beauty gift, worth over £100!   14 Male style icon:   Brad Pitt Chris Martin David Beckham Jude Law Justin Timberlake Orlando Bloom Steve Jones Usher Other, please specify   [Thanks irishbabe]

Coldplay were recently nominated for four Brit awards - Best Album, Best Group, Best British Single and Best Live act - and for the latter two it is down to a public vote to decide the winner. Please make your vote count for Coldplay at the Brit Awards website here   Voting for the British Live Act (Supported by listeners of BBC Radio 2) opened at 00:01 GMT on Monday 2 February 2009 and closes at 17.00 GMT on 7 February 2009. There will be seven rounds of voting for the British Single category (

The Dutch like their music polls, and this one is no exception. Radio Veronica have on the go a top 1000 songs poll. Votings for the 'Radio Veronica' hitparade have closed, but the top three have yet to be decided. Coldplay are among the choices for number one:   Coldplay | Clocks Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody November Rain | Guns n Roses   To vote for Coldplay as the winner, click here   Then click: 'Stem hier', Dutch for 'vote here'. In the pop-up, tick 'Clocks' by Coldplay, fill in your name and

Coldplay's 'The Scientist' video has been shortlisted on the 100 greatest music videos of all time. You can view and choose your votes from the whole list here, and if you think there are any Coldplay videos missing from the list you can also submit your choices for possible inclusion in the listing. 'The Scientist' is number 25 on the vote listing.   The '100 Greatest...' lists have become well documented and popular programmes on UK television and have been compelling viewing over the past few

In 2005, to celebrate the greatest albums ever made, Channel 4 will be bringing a four-hour celebration of these classic recordings.   There's not much in life more personal, more capable of bringing out emotions, than your favourite album - that good companion, that fantastic collection of songs that seems to sum up a particular part of your life.   Coldplay's Parachutes is nominated, to vote for it please go here    

WHERE: Absolute Radio live stories competition WHO: Chavi Vanna & Coldplaying WHEN: Now! WHAT: Go vote for Chavi!   You may remember the Rock Off last November/December in which we reached the semi-finals with superb wins against Keane and Muse official forums? Well, were at it again, taking part in Absolute Radio's Live Stories online competition (part of their non-stop summer of live music) to win tickets for our members and an evening of live music on Absolute Radio for Coldplaying.com!

The phone calls have been made, the scalps have been collected and the clips have all been heard. All that remains is for YOU to vote for the best Xfm Bounty Hunter Celebrity. Remember £10,000 for charity is at stake!   Voting is now open here   You can hear Chris Martin's call online now - listen

The 3rd XFM Bounty Hunter concludes today. If you're not familiar with the Bounty Hunter contest, listeners to the program have to get a celebrity to call in to the Christian O'Connell breakfast show and chat live on air. Chris Martin was the listener, and he asked Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to ring in.   To listen to Chris Martin's entry with Steven Spielberg click here   To vote for Chris Martin / Steven Spielberg text BOUNTY SPIELBERG to 83936 [uK only]. For full details click here

NME will be launching their brand new radio station on 24th June, featuring the best in new and alternative music, the latest music news, up-to-the-minute gig-guides and exclusive live sessions. Listen now at NME.COM/Radio, or tune in on Sky 0184 and Virgin Media 975.   To vote for Coldplay's 'Bigger Stronger' as the first ever track to be played on the station click here (one vote per page refresh!)   Download an auto-refresher... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115 IE:

Click here to vote for Coldplay in the following categories:   - Album of the year - Viewers choice award   Date : 12th April 2006   [Thanks radioactive_coldplayer]

MTV AWARDS: You can now vote for Coldplay in 4 categories in this years MTV European Music Awards in Barcelona on November 14th.   The 4 categories are, BEST UK ACT, BEST ROCK, BEST NEW ALBUM, and BEST GROUP.   Visit http://ema.mtv.co.uk/ema2002 to cast your votes.

The Europe Music Awards are set to take place on 6th November 2008 in Liverpool, UK and nominee voting is now open at www.mtvema.com.   Voting is open to the public – fans can vote for their favourite artist to become one of the Top 5 nominees! Don’t delay – help Coldplay get nominated for an award! Here are their nominations:   Rock Out | Best Act Ever | Headliner | Album Of The Year (Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends)   The 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards will take place at the Echo Arena

Coldplay has twice been nominated to win an awards given by the Spanish music radio station 'Los 40 principales'. Coldplay's nominations are as follows:   1. Best tour in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona). 2. Best international group in foreign language   For the first nomination Coldplay are up against Madonna again, and Amaral and El canto del loco. This nomination also includes the show by Rock'In Rio which took place in Madrid a few months ago. In the second nomination, they are up against four w

Vote for Coldplay at MTV’s The Nation’s Favourite Lyric poll.   22) Coldplay - Yellow “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you”   More on this here

Throughout July, XFM asked listeners to vote for their top 3 tracks of all time in this year's X List 2005 mega-poll. They have collated the thousands of votes and can now reveal this year's shortlist made up of the most popular 104 tracks.   Coldplay are in the list with the following - 'Clocks' & 'Yellow'. It's now up to you to get behind Coldplay and vote for your favourite tracks in order to get them to the coveted number 1 spot.   Each vote sent goes into a prize draw to win a colour iP

Here’s Rolling Stone’s list of 40 Songs that changed the world.   Think you can do better? The editors at Rolling Stone challenge you…   Send your comments on which songs you thing have shaken and shifted our planet and they’ll create a new list based on the best picks. On June 29th, the list of people speaks! See if Coldplay make the cut.   [Thanks eola]

A few simple clicks and you can make the difference between Coldplay winning the awards or not! Boost the chances of our beloved band by voting for Coldplay to win both the MTV EMA award for Best Rock act and a Q award for the Best Music Video ('Magic'). Links are below and it takes just seconds to vote for each one, no email address required although you can win tickets to the Q awards ceremony in London if you submit your email! Please remember to share by conveniently clicking the share butto

Coldplay voting even pops up on random radio station websites - and this is no exception. On WXRT Radio Chicago, Chicago's Finest Rock, 93.1 FM [a little plug there], you can vote for the following Coldplay songs:   Speed Of Sound Fix You Talk White Shadows   You can vote by going to wxrt.com. Please note you need to be registered to vote. I know you know you can't be bothered!   [Thanks 66]

The time has again come to have a good long look at the music world around us and ask "What albums did we like this year?"   All you have to do is make a list of 5 to 25 original albums released in 2008. Rank determines the points an album gets. Your list should be added to this thread - but don't delay - the deadline for submissions ends this Wednesday, December 17th at 4:00pm EST (9:00pm GMT), so make sure your vote counts and enter your list now! [thanks Space Cadet]  

You only have 4 more days left to vote your favourite acts through to the grand final in December.   Coldplaying.com have set up a series of polls where you can vote for some of the top 50 artists in music history. To view ALL the polls, please navigate the following links:   1990's 1980's 1970's 1960's 1950's   You do not have to be registered to cast your votes in any or all of the 5 polls - its open to everyone. Simply click on the decade you want to vote for and make your choice.   The top 3

As previously reported, nominees for the Best Live Act at the Vodafone awards include Coldplay, the Kaiser Chiefs, Muse and Razorlight.   You can vote here for Coldplay (hint: don't let the Kaisers win!)