Coldplay News

Anyone who feared that British pop-rockers Coldplay [ tickets ] would skip over the Los Angeles area during their soon-to-launch US tour can breathe a sigh of relief.   New to the group's schedule is a July 15 concert at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. The stop fills a crack in the itinerary for the first leg of the band's North American tour, which gets underway in New York City later this month with a free show at Madison Square Garden, and runs through early August.   A second North American leg

Coldplay has added 11 more shows onto its North American tour itinerary, which, as previously reported, gets underway Aug. 2 in Chicago. While the first eight dates will hit clubs and small theaters, the subsequent 11 shows will be held in larger theaters and amphitheaters. The North American shows are scheduled to wrap Sept. 24 in Chicago.   Following these gigs, Coldplay will return to its native U.K. for a 12-date run, beginning Oct. 4 in Glasgow and concluding Oct. 23 in Belfast. The tour co

Coldplay have added additional dates in London and Manchester after tickets for the 2012 stadium tour sold out after just 90 minutes this morning. The speed at which tickets for the large-capacity venues sold out has prompted the organisers to add another date at the Emirates Stadium in London on June 4th, as well as an additional show in Manchester on June 10th.   In Coventry, the Coventry Telegraph reported that Coldplay concert tickets for the show on May 29th went on sale at 9am and all 40,0

Coldplay will now play a second show at The Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on Sunday, October 27th. This is in addition to the show on Friday, October 25th as previously announced.   The new Coldplay album, 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' went straight into the No.1 spot in the Irish Album Charts at the weekend with the highest first week's sales of any new album released in Ireland this year.

This just in from Coldplay.com:   Good afternoon. We can confirm that Coldplay are playing a second show at the Tokyo Super Arena, on February 11th 2009. Tickets are available for all four Japanese shows from http://www.creativeman.co.jp/. The dates are as follows:   Feb 11th - Tokyo, Saitama Super Arena (NEW DATE) Feb 12th - Tokyo, Saitama Super Arena Feb 14th - Osaka, Kobe World Kinen Hall Feb 15th - Osaka, Kobe World Kinen Hall   ps - here's an overflow pic from last night's Birmingham blog..

Coldplay have added a second gig at London's Wembley Stadium after their first sold out.   The group sold out their gig at the massive venue on September 19 2009, but have added another night there on September 18. Coldplay have also announced that Girls Aloud will support them at a newly announced second date at London’s Wembley Stadium. Chris Martin has been vocal in his fandom of the band, who will appear below Coldplay on Friday 18 September. Jay-Z is already lined-up to support them at thei

After selling out their pre-sale allocation in a day, Coldplay have announced a third Sydney show for Acer Arena on March 14.   General tickets for the March 11, 12 and 14 shows go on sale through Ticketek (132849) on Thursday.   More on this news to follow...    

Coldplay have announced that they have added tracks 'The Scientist' and 'Violet Hill' to the Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game. The popular game, where you 'tap' along to Coldplay tracks on your iPhone, has received rave reviews since its launch.   If you already own Tap Tap Revenge, you can get the extra songs as a free update, by connecting to the app store via your iPhone or iPod Touch. If you don't own it yet, you can buy it at a specially reduced price from your local iTunes Store until Sunday, b

Coldplay and Leona Lewis have been added to the performance lineup for the American Music Awards, Billboard.com can reveal. The event will be held Nov. 23 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.   Also on the bill are Kanye West, Jonas Brothers, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Ne-Yo, New Kids On The Block, Pussycat Dolls, Taylor Swift, P!nk, the Fray and Annie Lennox. David Archuleta, Ashley Tisdale, Demi Lovato and T-Pain will present awards at the event, which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Winners ar

Coldplay will join the bill for 2015's Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball. The festive event will take place in London on Saturday 5th December, one day after the release of 'A Head Full Of Dreams'.   The British band will join Jason Derulo, Ariana Grande, David Guetta, Years & Years, Jess Glynne and Nathan Sykes as Saturday's headliners, with additional acts to follow on the Sunday.   You can buy tickets here   Discuss the event in the Coldplay community

Chris Martin has admitted he is affected by negative reviews of Coldplay. The singer told the New York Post, "The truth is it really does affect us."   Chris Martin, 28, said two bad reviews of the group's latest album "X&Y", a scathing piece in the New York Times and a negative Rolling Stone review "knocked us sideways."   He added: "And this is the first time that we've responded to it. That's why we're having trouble knowing how to answer. There's no harm admitting that you're human and t

Coldplay have once again been linked with next year's Glastonbury festival after festival founder Michael Eavis says he has booked "three biggest bands in the world" for the event, due to take place next June.   The bands' identities will not be revealed until after the event has sold out, but rumours have been circulating that U2, who had to cancel a planned appearance this year after lead singer Bono was injured on tour, will be one of the Pyramid stage headliners, along with Coldplay, Madonn

One week after the controversial closure of children's charity, Kids Company, Coldplay are looking to save one of its educational facilities. Named 'the Treehouse' in London, the therapeutic educational unit has been open since 2009, when Kids Company founded the institution, which aids vulnerable families and young people.   Coldplay's creative director and much appreciated fifth member, Phil Harvey spoke out about the potential 'takeover':   It's very early stages. We're incredibly proud

Music fans were today on course to help give Coldplay their third number one album.   Early sales figures for X&Y - which was released yesterday - indicate that the album is outselling nearest rival the White Stripes by three to one and looks set to top the charts this weekend.   According to Dave Murray, manager of HMV, Forestside, music fans across the UK were out in force from early yesterday to snap up the hugely-anticipated album.   "From early yesterday morning Coldplay's new album has

Although understandably unable to maintain the hectic sales pace it set on its first three days in the shops, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends sold a further 197,978 copies last week to surge past the half million sales mark in just 10 days, and remains well clear of its rivals at the top of the albums chart, while the band lands its first-ever number one single.   Already the year’s second-biggest selling artist album – Duffy’s Rockferry, up 3-2 this week on sales of 46,027,

It has been announced that Coldplay are giving fans the chance to own their new album for half the usual price by announcing a buy one get one free offer on Internet downloads.   So this means that whenever you download a track from their new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends you will automatically get another song of your choice for free. Chris Martin has said that “Buy one get one free, it comes from working in Kwik Save (British budget supermarket), I think. As I said before nob

LONDON (Reuters) - British group Coldplay, whose much delayed album is finally hitting the airwaves, could be the band that makes or breaks music giant EMI.   "This is the high stakes album of the year for EMI," said Numis Securities analyst Paul Richards of the world's third largest music group.   EMI Group shares fell 16 percent in February after it blamed delays in releasing key albums for lower than expected profits.So a great deal is riding on the success of "X&Y," the follow-up to Col

Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its Viva la Vida was crowned the best-selling album of 2008, while Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love was named the top-selling single.   Coldplay's CD has sold more than two million copies since its release in June, and has sold more than 500,000 copies digitally - most of which was through iTunes, according to the band's representative. ITunes does not release its sales figures, its spokesman said in releasing its list.   Jack Johnson's Sleep

Shares in EMI Group Plc, the world's third-largest record company, slumped as much as 18 percent after the company cut its fiscal-year earnings forecast.   EMI, where revenue has dropped for three straight years, is counting on new albums to lift earnings. Planned releases from bands Coldplay and Gorillaz will slip into next fiscal year, the company said today, meaning an April release at the very earliest. Recorded music revenue accounts for about 80 percent of EMI's total.   Pretax profit befo

2008 closed with a bang for Coldplay. The band's fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, was officially elected 'Album Of The Year' by Mediatraffic.de site, which takes into account the indices of sales and marketing of the shares of music from around the world.   The 162,000 copies of the album sold this week have brought the total number of copies purchased to 6,570,400. There was also an increase in sales due to Christmas, and in the U.S. alone over 51,000 copies were sold du

Coldplay have maintained their hold on the UK albums chart, making it four weeks at No.1 with Viva La Vida.   Duffy remains at two with her enduringly popular Rockferry album, while Chris Brown's Exclusive climbs to a new peak of three. The highest new entry of the week comes from Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman, who enters at eight with his third studio album, Poor Man's Heaven.   The top ten albums in full:   1. (1) Coldplay: 'Viva La Vida' 2. (2) Duffy: 'Rockferry' 3. (6) Chris Brown: 'Exclusi

Coldplay's highly anticipated third album is to be packaged with a front cover featuring colour-coded blocks which combine to reveal a secret code.   Bosses at record company Parlophone hope the intrigue surrounding the X&Y disc's artwork will pique the interest of fans the world over as they try to find the hidden meaning concealed the eye-catching design.   The global marketing campaign will begin later this month in anticipation of the album's release on 6th June. Parlophone executives an

Oasis' iconic debut album, Definitely Maybe, has been voted the greatest album of all time in a survey by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME.com, reports 999today.   The 1994 album, which featured popular songs like Rock 'N' Roll Star, personic and Live Forever, held off the challenge from Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to claim the top spot.   Another Beatles album, Revolver, finished in third place. Other notable albums on the list included U2's The Joshua Tree (

You’ve probably heard that while CD sales have taken a nosedive, vinyl record sales have been on the upswing since 2004. Now major retailer Best Buy is following Circuit City’s lead by launching a program to stock some vinyl in its stores.   Radiohead and Coldplay will hop aboard the vinyl train with reissues from Capitol/EMI on August 19. The vinyl reissues of Radiohead's OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief and Coldplay's Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head are part of a

Coldplay added fuel to their own rumour-mill fire by tweeting a photograph from alongside the pyramid stage at Glastonbury. Phil Harvey sent the photograph along with the comment, "where me and chris went climbing today pH." The picture shows fields from Worthy farm with the Pyramid stage, currently under construction, casting a shadow in the foreground.   This all but confirms Coldplay's headline appearance at the 2011 festival on Saturday 25th of June. There has been no official word on the fe