Coldplay News

Coldplay will certainly have the number one album in both the US and Australia next week. In both cases, it will be by miles in front.   First day figures out of the US suggest that 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends' is good for maybe 700,000 sales in the US over the next week. In Australia, the album is tracking to sell around 30,000 units.   The US sales come off the back of the record-breaking week for Lil Wayne, who sold more than 1 million units this week. In Australia, this week's

Coldplay may have to settle for only a week at number one on the UK singles chart with Ne-Yo gearing up to take their place.   Early sales figures suggest the Def Jam/Mercury track Closer will overtake Coldplay’s Viva La Vida this weekend with the Parlophone track currently around 2,000 sales behind Ne-Yo. A close-run battle elsewhere in the top five has Columbia’s Sara Bareilles, Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna and Jive/RCA’s Chris Brown presently separated by little more than 200 sales at this stage

London - Their latest album may have topped charts around the world, but British rockers Coldplay were expected to lose out to less celebrated rivals on Tuesday in the race for their home country's most prestigious music award.   Kaiser Chiefs are tipped as hot favourites to win the Mercury Prize for their debut album Employment, while Coldplay's X and Y is seen by bookmakers as a 16-1 outside shot.   The prize - for the best album by a British act that year - carries a £20 000 cheque, but mor

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- U2's The Edge announced the Icons of Music Auction to benefit Music Rising on Saturday April 21st 2007 at Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square at 5pm.   The auction event will offer one of the most significant collections of music memorabilia from many of music's greatest legends with proceeds benefiting Music Rising (), a campaign co-founded by The Edge, producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz in 2005 to aid musicians of the

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The Coldplay Messenger recently opened up a competition in which a signed Grammy 'thing' would be used as the prize. Well now that prize has been revealed, and it's definately unique. Here's Anchorman with more details:   Those of you signed up to receive the Coldplay Messenger email newsletter might remember that in last week's issue (No. 11, Vol. 1) we had a competition to win an unspecified "signed thing from the Grammys". Well, we're very pleased to announce that the thing in question is the

The new edition of the Coldplay Messenger has sparked a rush for a download of Coldplay's free track, Death Will Never Conquer, over a month after it was first made available, Coldplaying can reveal.   Here's what Coldplay said in their messenger:   If you haven't dropped in on Coldplay.com lately, you won't know that we've been giving away a free MP3 of an exclusive Coldplay track called Death Will Never Conquer, which is unavailable anywhere else. The band have played the song throughout the f

Coldplay Messenger has published Number 4 Volume 1 earlier today. Here are some of the best bits:   Yesterday evening Coldplay.com launched a contest for you folks to create a video for Lost? (the acoustic version of the upcoming single). As Prospekt explained in his brief, you can "use any medium you like: animation, Claymation, stop motion, video camera, super 8, comic strip, photography" to conjure your video. We'd just like them to be creative, original and imaginative. The maker of the best

Coldplay Messenger has published Number 4 Volume 1 earlier today. Here are some of the best bits:   Yesterday evening Coldplay.com launched a contest for you folks to create a video for Lost? (the acoustic version of the upcoming single). As Prospekt explained in his brief, you can "use any medium you like: animation, Claymation, stop motion, video camera, super 8, comic strip, photography" to conjure your video. We'd just like them to be creative, original and imaginative. The maker of the best

Coldplay have missed out on Best International Rock Group to 'My Chemical Romance' at the 2006 MTV Latin American Awards, held on Thursday.   Robbie Williams' bottom and a band that dresses like furry bunnies graced MTV's 2006 Latin America Music Awards, where reggaeton sensation Daddy Yankee won top prize for artiste of the year.   More on the awards here [thanks coldpatrix] MTV made a triumphant return to Mexico yesterday after Hurricane Wilma ruined last year's ceremony just hours before it w

Michael Eavis has been dropping more clues as to who'll be playing Glastonbury, with it now looking very likely that Jay Z could be headlining.   Two bands who definitely won't be playing are Radiohead and Coldplay, who both ruled themselves out following enquiries by Glastonbury's organisers.   Eavis told BBC 6Music: “For one thing, the bands aren’t available. Radiohead are doing their own thing and Coldplay aren’t around this year either. All other regular headliners, they just weren’t there b

The Ting Tings held off competition from Coldplay and Leona Lewis to take home Best UK Video at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (September 7th).   We reported recently that Coldplay picked up a 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 Tings' Shut Up And Let Me Go all snagged nominations too. Hosted by Russell Brand, the 25th Video Music Awards took plac

The Fratellis have spoken for the first time about a technical hitch that threw production of their second album into disarray.   The rockers’ second opus Here We Stand was due to hit shops last week but has been delayed until June after their mixer bailed out. Frontman Jon Fratelli explained: “The guy cried off the day before he was due to start. I was devastated. You just want to give up. He hadn’t finished the Coldplay album but, as much as I like them, I thought that was a rubbish reason.”  

The band's official page have released a 30 second teaser clip for their 'Adventure Of A Lifetime' music video. It also serves it's purpose as an advert for the new Beats Pill:     The full video be unveiled this Friday, 27th November.   What do you think of the video, so far? Let us know here.

British rockers rushing to finish "Parachutes" follow-up   Coldplay are putting the finishing touches the follow-up to their breakthrough debut, Parachutes. Currently working in George Martin's Air Studios in London, the group is once again using the production skills of Ken Nelson. The album is scheduled for released in June, but bass player Guy Berryman isn't sure that will allow the band enough time to complete it.   "It's panic stations at the moment because we've got a deadline we're trying

Coldplay is the most played artist in the world this week on Audioscrobbler. Latest track positions are as follows:   1st: Speed Of Sound 2nd: Fix You 7th: Talk 9th: Square One   Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on this site which shows

Roger Daltrey, Coldplay and Charlie Gillett were among the stars to pick up awards at the 22nd Radio Academy Awards.   The Neilsen Music Control Award for the Most Played Artist on UK Radio went to Coldplay. The band became only the fourth act to win the award since it was set up in 1999, joining the likes of Robbie Williams, Kylie and Jamelia. Coldplay’s third album X&Y has recently been named the best-selling album of 2005, ahead of Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi and rapper 50 Cen

Coldplay have set up their own auction website so fans who are left ticketless don't have to be "ripped off" buying online.   The group say that whenever they announce tour dates, "an enormous amount" end up being sold on via auction websites, and in some cases, "scalper sites". To combat this, the band are auctioning off some tickets for their forthcoming North American dates, with some of the money being donated to charity.   A statement on the band's official website reads: "Whenever we put

Coldplay rose one spot to number six on the US Billboard 200 charts, selling 55,000 copies of “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" - all the more amazing considering this is a 21 percent sales loss.   In France, Coldplay are still number one with the new album, despite pressure fromFrench first lady Carla Bruni who sold more than 300,000 copies in France and abroad since hitting the shelves a month ago, with new album "Comme si de rien n'etait" (Simply).   Meanwhile, The Jonas Brothers ar

"Who needs a record company?" That's what essentially what Thom Yorke and his fellow members of Radiohead said last year when they released their path-breaking new album "In Rainbows" on their own after bidding adieu to EMI, the band's longtime record company.   Now another revolt is brewing at EMI. The Times of London reports that EMI recording artist Robbie Williams is withholding his next album to protest cost-cutting by Terra Firma, the British private equity group that bought the London-ba

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Warner Music Group Corp., whose artists include Linkin Park and Madonna, said Monday it signed a license deal to market and distribute EMI Music releases in South East Asia, according to the CNN money website. Financial terms were not disclosed.   Warner Music Group will be the exclusive local physical and digital distributor of EMI Music's products in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea and Thailand. The multiyear agreement expands on an existing relat

Chris Martin has marked the first time he heard his band on Xfm as one of the finest moments in Coldplay’s career so far, via a journal entry on their official website.   Martin reveals the exactly moment that Coldplay first heard themselves on air on 104.9 Xfm, at exactly 3.45am on April 18 1999, via a journal timeline which displays written excerpts, pictures and videos at www.coldplay.com. The written excerpt says: “18th April 1999 Me & Tim hear Brothers and Sisters at 3.45am in the morn

Coldplay's songwriting skills landed them the top honours at the 30th annual ASCAP Awards in London on Wednesday, October 13. Chris Martin, Will Champion, Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman were named the Songwriters of the Year at the ceremony, while Viva La Vida [pictured] hit won them the Song of the Year award. Coldplay sent a video message of thanks as they said they were recording a new album with Brian Eno.   Other big winners included Taio Cruz, who picked up the ASCAP Vanguard Award for hi

Coldplay’s undying popularity certainly has paid off for the band, and we’re not talking the contentment that comes with success, we’re talking the truck loads of cash kind of success.   Chris Martin and his gang have taken out the number one spot on OK! Magazine’s 2005 rich list, and have beat out some of the world’s biggest acts in the cash-earning stakes. The band have reportedly earned a whopping £37 million throughout their career’s entirety making them richer than U2 and their lousy £35 mi

With a little over two years since their last visit to South America, Chilean media sources, namely POTQ.cl today are at it again - predicting that Coldplay will return to play there in November, around the same time as the Killers.   Whilst a Coldplay Latin America tour for 2009 has yet to be confirmed, The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers recently revealed back in February that he was planning to reform the Coldplay/Killers supergroup that wowed the crowd at February's War Child gig. He said