Coldplay News

James Blunt's five-week run at the top of the U.K. singles chart with "You're Beautiful" (Atlantic) was ended yesterday (Aug. 21) by boy band McFly, who opened at No. 1 with "I'll Be OK" (Universal Island). But Blunt continues to rule the album chart with "Back to Bedlam," which tops the survey for a seventh week.   The entire top five on the album chart was unchanged, with Coldplay's "X&Y" (Parlophone) still at No. 2 behind Blunt. Madeleine Peyroux's "Careless Love" (Rounder/Universal Class

As reported earlier here, WXRT Radio in Chicago, hosted polls for both album and song of the year for 2005, including the best gigs of the year.   Voting is now finished - see if your favorites made the list here. Coldplay featured in the top lists with the following relevant results:   Album of the Year: 1. Coldplay - X&Y   Songs of the Year: 3. Fix You 4. Speed of Sound 53. Talk (tied) 99. White Shadows   Concerts of the year 7. Coldplay @ Metro, May 6, 2005 18. Coldplay @ Alpine Va

Coldplay has made the biggest debut so far this year, with its new album 'X&Y' topping the charts in at least 28 countries, and the number is likely to grow as more countries publish their sales figures. The album is so far number 1 in the following countries:   Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Denmark Finland France Germany Holland Hong Kong Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Lebanon Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Norway Sweden Taiwan Thailand UAE UK

X&Y hits stores on June 6th... but don't expect to hear it before then.   The new album will be kept under a watchful eye until its retail release date in order to prohibit it from "finding its way" onto the plethora of Internet download sites. Even critics, who typically receive advance copies of release to review, must adhere to the tight security policy surrounding "X&Y." Instead of a CD copy of the recording, reviewers may only preview Coldplay's latest via an IPod locked in a glass

Thanks to sebile and musicman, there are X&Y wallpapers for you to download to your desktop. You can grab them here and here

The path of p2p in the future has been uncovered just a little more with the news that 8% of EMI’s Coldplay's 'X&Y' sales were downloaded.   And that was mainly down to iTunes which had been accepting orders for the album for a month, says the LA Times. “The pre-orders - a first by Apple included two bonus tracks not on the physical CD,” it says.   But before you get too excited, of the 740,000 sold in the first week, only 64,000 went through iTunes which is, to all intents and purposes, the

In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight (June 9) on John Kennedy's X-posure show, Coldplay's Chris Martin has revealed why their new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' has two titles.   In a move that faintly echoes Radiohead's strategy to allow fans to decide what to pay for their album, Coldplay have given their fans the choice of two titles to choose from. Explained Chris Martin: "We refer to it just as 'Viva La Vida' but the other bit is if you find it too depressin

The 40 million album-selling, Grammy Award-winning, Earth-dictating Kings Of Soft Rock called in on Xfm for an exclusive interview, talking the early days, Brian Eno and how they shaped the ‘Coldplay sound’…   Currently on a sell-out tour of the land’s arenas, frontman Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion spoke to Xfm Manchester’s Clint Boon before venturing off to headline the city’s MEN Arena. Listen to the five-part interview at the XFM website here and read the excerpts of each part below.

X-Posure (XFM evening show, Mon-Thur) will have an exclusive album playback of Coldplay's new album 'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends', following the news that Coldplay accepted XFM's invitation, Coldplaying.com can reveal.   For those who don't know, an 'X-posure Album Playback' is when a particularly great or important new record is about to come out, the station invites the band into talk through the new record with a track-by-track rundown.   X-posure is Xfm's showcase for all that

Chris, Johnny and Guy turn in their most explosive Residency show yet as they turn up the heat on the Simon Pegg feud. Strip bars are also in favour, it seems...   Chris Martin, Johnny Buckland and Guy Berryman turned in their greatest performance as Xfm DJs on last Sunday's Residency show. They mentioned strip bars, turned up the heat on their 'feud' with Simon Pegg and also stumbled very close to being libellous.   "We called Simon Pegg and he blatantly ignored our call", said Chris Martin, st

In an exclusive interview on John Kennedy's XFM X-posure show, Coldplay's Chris Martin revealed why their new album, 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' has two titles. You can download the full two hour album playback interview in four parts: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]   The Coldplay Virgin Radio countdown was:   1. Yellow | 2. Fix You | 3. The Scientist | 4. Clocks | 5. Speed Of Sound | 6. Violet Hill | 7. In My Place | 8. Shiver | 9. Talk | 10. Trouble   Just outside Top 10:

XFM will be giving Coldplay’s brand new single its first play next Tuesday (April 29) after 12 noon, plus get the full history of the track and album so far.   ‘Violet Hill’ is the first single to be taken from the ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’ album, which is released on June 16. And if you listen to Xu on Tuesday (April 29) after midday you'll hear Gareth give ‘Violet Hill’ its very first spin. Plus, keep your eyes and ears locked on to XFM Online and on air for the most exciting

Contrary to reports and rumours, Coldplay's forthcoming album will not be called 'Prospekt', XFM report. Instead, it'll be called...   Actually, your guess is as good as ours because Coldplay are remaining tight-lipped over what their fourth album will be named. What we do know is that the follow-up to 2005's 'X&Y' is just a month away from completion.   In new posting on their website, Coldplay have denied that the new album is called 'Prospekt' but are refusing to reveal what the title wil

XFM and NME are reporting that the new track titles for Coldplay's new album have been leaked online. However their report gives us no new information that Prospekt hasn't already provided. Here is their article:   The names of the tracks that will make up 'Prospekt' have leaked out. There's also a tetative May release date too.   Some online retailers suggest that Coldplay's fourth album, 'Prospekt', will see the light of day in May. This contradicts last week's stories of the band withholding

Coldplay's Xylobands will be used during their performance at the Paralympics closing ceremony on 9th September, it has been revealed in an online article interview with Xyloband inventor, Jason Regler.   After rumours spread that they would be playing the Olympics closing ceremony last week, Coldplay themselves again confirmed via Twitter they will be present for the Paralympics ceremony on September 9th – reiterating a previous announcement made in May. "For those asking, Coldplay were never d

The “Lost” quartet play an invite-only show at the Hammerstein Ballroom   While the CMJ Music Marathon is taking over New York City, Coldplay snuck into town to tape a Yahoo / Nissan Live Show at Hammerstein Ballroom. While the 4,000 capacity venue ain’t peanuts, it certainly is a small venue for the arena rockers who have won back a devote fanbase with Viva La Vida.   A mellow crowd of mostly industry folks filled the Hammerstein floors, but the balconies, which were open, were surprisingly em

As reported earlier in the month, Coldplay's 'Yellow' was shortlisted for The Brits Best Song Award - the song though didn't make it to the final.   However, you can still vote here for the final five songs which are:   Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division Angels - Robbie Williams We Are The Champions - Queen Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush Leave Right Now - Will YoungFollowing Round 1 of voting which cut the final shortlist to five songs saw the following songs dumped:   Night Fever - Bee Ge

Yesterday was one of the busiest days in the Coldplay 2008 calendar so far, with three interviews and the release of the new Viva La Vida video. Here is a reminder of all the interviews and useful links:   eTalk [pictures] [discussion] [watch video] [download video]   Tanya Kim and Ben Mulroney of eTalk sat down with Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland of Coldplay at the eTalk studios in downtown Toronto yesterday. At first they joked about Ben Mulroney's hair, which set the tone for a wickedly fun

More UK dates have been added to the Christmas tour. The full list is as follows   Wed 14th Earls Court, LONDON Thu 15th Earls Court, LONDON [NEW] Fri 16th Earls Court, LONDON [NEW] Sun 18th Telewest Arena, NEWCASTLE Mon 19th Evening News Arena, MANCHESTER Wed 21st The Odessy Arena, BELFAST   This list will be updated as and when new dates are announced.

Rap superstar Jay-Z stunned his pal Chris Martin on Friday when he joined Coldplay onstage during their London concert and began wrestling him to the ground. The Run This Town hitmaker, real name Shawn Carter, has been entertaining fans as the support act on Coldplay's UK tour (Glasgow and London at least) - but he had a surprise in store for Chris Martin when they performed at Wembley Stadium.   Media reports confirm that Jay-Z appeared on stage on Friday as Chris Martin was playing a song on t

Coldplay were crowned kings of 2005 last night after scooping TWO top Bizarre Awards.   Thousands of readers voted for Coldplay as Best Band and also named X&Y Best Album. Together with Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman, Chris Martin was thrilled to win. When I met up with the group, he said: “It means so much to us to get these awards because they really count. It means a lot when you know it is voted for by The Sun’s millions of readers. Thank you to everyone who voted for us.

More questions answered by The Oracle... (submit yours now!)   May 28, 2009 - submitted by Jordan, United States of America Q. What do bones sink like? The Oracle replies: Er, stones?   May 28, 2009 - submitted by Ricardo, Columbia Q. Oracle, For the recording of the Fix You video, X&Y was not released yet. How did the audience know the song? The Oracle replies: It was. The video was recorded in July and the album had been out a full month by then.   May 28, 2009 - submitted by David, Unite

We've had a good response to our latest poll in which we asked you to rate Coldplay's new song Lost+ (Feat. Jay-Z).   Over 1200 votes have been counted so far in just a few days and so far a quarter of you have given the track 0/10, probably reflecting the limited amount of change compared to the album version, and another quarter of you gave it perfect marks. You can continue to add to the votes here. The results so far are as follows:  

Coldplay's third album will be released NEXT year according to official word given to me, not 2004 as stated here.   I'm sure you can hang on, can't you?

...to download the interview Will Champion had at Radio 1 on The Jo Whiley Show a couple of days ago. You can pick up the file here