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Gwyneth Paltrow is being paid £2million to sing one three-minute song in a movie.   It will make her the highest paid actress or female singer ever for a tiny cameo appearance. The two million deal is a lot more than the £2,000 cut husband Chris Martin gets for singing one Coldplay song.Gwyneth's pay cheque comes for just one day's work on new film Every Word Is True which is being shot next year reports The Sun.   Gwyneth plays American singer Peggy Lee and will sing What Is This Thing Called L

Greek entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Iouannou is expanding his Easy business empire with a new online music download service, including Robbie Williams and Coldplay.   Mr Haji-Iouannou's easyGroup said it had teamed up with London-based music subscription service Wippit to create easyMusic.com.   The web-based service will consist of two sections, Copyleft - which will feature material from unsigned artists, including music downloadable for free - and Copyright, offering current hits and back catalog

There are a couple of pictures posted on the messageboard of Chris Martin and Michael Stipe of REM on stage here.   PIctures courtesy of Getty Images; thanks to MarDawn for the thread.

Embrace are chart toppers again - after help from Coldplay.   After a three-year wait for a new album, Out Of Nothing is released this week, hot on the heels of Top 10 single Gravity, which was penned by Coldplay's Chris Martin. You can read the full article here   Also see the "Out Of Nothing Come Embrace" article here

Coldplay has been nominated for best act in the world today. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Radiohead, U2 and Outkast are also up for the award.   In 2002, Coldplay won the Best Album award for 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'. Chris Martin picked up the award, adding that he had about twelve bowls of Coco Pops to settle his nerves before attending the show.   The Q Awards take place in London on October 4th. More details hereScottish rockers Franz Ferdinand have been nominated for four more gong

It was a night of surprise guests and collaborations at last night’s Make Trade Fair benefit show in London - with Chris Martin joining REM on stage.   REM headlined this year’s Oxfam benefit at London Hammersmith Apollo.   The Coldplay singer bounced onto the stage unannounced halfway through ’Man On The Moon’, to huge applause. He stayed on the stage, and sung a verse and chorus to the track, before waving to the crowd and returning to the side of the stage to watch the rest of the group's set

Pop queen Madonna walked out on her Reinvention world tour yesterday to celebrate husband Guy Ritchie's birthday.   The Material Girl flew to London after performing in Holland, to host an exclusive party at celebrity restaurant Offerman to mark the Snatch director's 36th birthday - the guests included Chris Martin, and his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow.   Source: ContactMusic

Chris Martin is the rumoured surprise guest at tomorrow’s (Sept 14) Make Trade Fair benefit show.   REM are the headline band at this year’s Oxfam benefit at London Hammersmith Apollo, with the bill completed by The Thrills, Razorlight , Jamelia, Minnie Driver and Ricky Gervais. The show will be compered by Dermot O’Leary.   All day, rumours have been circulating about whether Chris Martin will appear at the show. Organisers remain tight-lipped, but Martin is in London where he has been putting

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Coldplay rock star Chris Martin uses his famous vocal talents to send his baby girl Apple to sleep, according to wife Gwyneth Paltrow.   The actress said Chris soothes baby Apple to sleep with a song when she is suffering from teething pains. The celebrity couple's daughter was born in May, and Gwyneth said she has recently been cutting her first teeth.   "She has treated us to the whole 4am thing which is a bit tough, but Chris weighs in and sings lullabies and funny joke songs. I played his mu

You can listen to original version of The Streets' 'Dry Your Eyes' featuring Chris Martin's backing vocals here   [thanks labell]

REM are the top secret headliners of a charity show in London, and not Coldplay as rumoured by many fans.   As previously reported, Razorlight and Jamelia are among the stars who have signed up for the show at the London Hammersmith Apollo (September 14), which is in aid of Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign. NME has revealed that the "very special headline artist" is the American band. A similar event in October 2002 at the London Astoria saw Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher and Ms Dynamite perform l

The song written by Chris Martin and released by Embrace as their latest single has landed at no.7 in the UK singles charts today.   You can watch the video online here and let people know what you think of it hereThis week’s singles top ten is:   1. Nelly – ‘My Place / 'Flap Your Wings’ 2. Jojo – ‘Leave (Get Out)’ 3. Twista – ‘Sunshine’ 4. Natasha Bedingfield – ‘These Words’ 5. 3 Of A Kind – ‘Babycakes’ 6. 411 – ‘Dumb’ 7. Embrace – ‘Gravity’ 8. The Pirates – ‘You Should Really Know’ 9.

The Orchard, the world's leading distributor and marketer of independent music, and Fierce Panda Records, the legendary UK-based indie label, today announced that only weeks after signing their first-ever digital distribution deal and partnership with The Orchard, Fierce Panda artist Coldplay has hit the top of the charts on iTunes.   For two weeks, Coldplay's 1999 EP, "Brothers and Sisters," was iTunes' second most downloaded album and it has remained in the top ten for more than four weeks.As

XFM's X List 2004 has now been revealed. Coldplay's two entries, Yellow and Clocks came in at 53rd and 74th respectively.   The final list in full is here   You can discuss the full list of tracks here

Gwyneth wants more kids >> here   You can discuss this story here

Gwyneth Paltrow thrilled fans when she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's daytime chat show yesterday and rapped her husband Chris Martin's pregnancy ode to her.   The Coldplay singer filmed a hilarious short video, as 'The Nappies', and presented to his wife just before she gave birth in May. The lyrics of the personal novelty ditty have been kept under wraps until Gwyneth decided to share them with Oprah on her show.   She rapped, "Sometimes you're happy, sometimes you frown/With your hormones bounci

"Chris Martin is one of the three people on the world who I consider to be a friend, aside from the band and my family," smiles Danny McNamara, frontman of Britpop band Embrace.   "We play each other stuff over the phone all the time and when he played me Gravity about two years ago I absolutely loved it. Chris thought it was one of the best songs he'd written but said it sounded so much like Embrace that he gave it to us and it’s turned out really, really well."   The West Yorkshire band have s

In an interview with Gary Graff [freelancer] Sarah McLachlan has said, "As far as I know, up until a couple of months ago, [Coldplay's] Chris Martin had never heard of my music. Someone presented the idea of us writing together, and he was like, Who's Sarah McLachlan?   "And Gwyneth [Paltrow, Chris Martin's wife] said, You don't know who this is?! Sit down and listen to this . . .' Gwyneth's my gal. She stood up for me."   McLachlan, however, says that she is most definitely "inspired by other

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - While syndicated talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is in repeats until its season premiere September 13, a special, brand-new episode will air on Thursday that features Gwyneth Paltrow's first interview as a mother.   Paltrow, who gave birth to a daughter, Apple, in May, will also talk about her secret 2003 marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and the 2002 death of her father, director Bruce Paltrow.   Source: ABC News

In a brief interview with the Daily Mirror, British R'n'B star Jamelia told the paper Coldplay frontman Chris Martin can't wait to team up with her again.   "Chris and I are talking at the moment about doing a duet at the Oxfam Fair Trade gig on September 14. It will be amazing if it comes off - we work really well together," she said.   This may well confirm Coldplay as a part of the line up at the Make Trade Fair gig next month. Razorlight, Jamelia and Hollywood actress Minnie Driver and other

Jamelia has covered Coldplay as part of her performance at V Festival.   The singer performed in the JJB Arena at Hylands Park, Chelmsford on Saturday (August 21). Jamelia famously collaborated with Chris Martin on her recent single 'See It In A Boy's Eyes'. During her set she covered Coldplay’s 'Clocks'. She told the crowd: "You may know I wrote a song with Chris Martin. Well Coldplay are one of my favourite acts and now I’m going to play a song that I wish I'd written myself."   A fan at the g

You e-mailed in your thousands in the first round of voting at XFM. The shortlist tracks are listed here.   Coldplay have two songs shortlisted for the final round of voting - 'Yellow' taken from Parachutes and 'Clocks' from A Rush Of Blood To The Head. Each e-mail you send influences and shapes the final 104 shortlisted tracks, all of which are played out in full on August Bank Holiday.   To ensure your vote is counted before the deadline, click here.

The Coldplay penned Gravity is to be the comeback single of Embrace. You can watch their video online here and let people know what you think here   If you are intending to buy the single, you may wish to support Oxfam as part of a special campaign.   From Monday 23rd August you'll be able to download Gravity from the Oxfam music site BigNoiseMusic a week before the official release date. The download will also count towards the first ever official Download chart, which will be announced on Sept

The North Londoner has shifted a mere 200,000 copies of debut jazz CD Frank. But it hasn't stopped her dismissing some of music's biggest names with four-letter putdowns.   Chris Martin, whose band Coldplay has sold five million albums? She spits: "I bet if he heard his stuff he'd be like, 'Who is that wanker'?'"   Well Amy, from all at Coldplaying.com, up yours!!   You can discuss this story here and read all her stupid comments here