Coldplay News

Tim McGraw (music) and Faith Hill (music)'s "Soul2Soul II" tour was Ticketmaster's "most requested event" during the first quarter of 2006, based on online page views, information requests and ticket sales from Jan. 1 through March 31. (Ticketmaster is LiveDaily's parent company.)   According to a Ticketmaster press release, the Top 5 was rounded out by Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett, David Gilmour and Bon Jovi.   Ranking at Nos. 6 through 10 were Coldplay, Kenny Chesney, Michael Buble, George Strait

Coldplay brought their Twisted Logic tour to São Paulo yesterday for a sold out concert at Via Funchal.   The band asked all bars inside the arena to close 15 minutes prior to the show, not allowing any further sales of alcoholic drinks. Rodrigo Santoro and girlfriend Ellen Jabour [pictured] were there.   There are more pictures of the concert at UOL and Terra and here [thanks KITTYBERRYMAN]  

Basshunter's album Now You're Gone managed to oust Coldplay from the top of the UK album chart, after five consecutive weeks at number one.   This week 331,000 copies of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends were sold wordwide and the record still remains the biggest selling release across the world, with 3,554,000 copies of the album having been sold. 1,081,000 downloads of the single Viva La Vida have also been recorded.   If that wasn't enough, Cemeteries Of London, Yes, Life In Technicol

Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall scooped the prize for best song on Thursday at the 51st Ivor Novello music awards for British composers.   Tunstall's song "Suddenly I See", taken from her best-selling album "Eye To The Telescope", took the award for best song musically and lyrically, pipping fellow nominees Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys. Earlier this year Tunstall was declared best female artist at the recording industry's Brits award.   James Blunt picked up two Novello honours, for most p

As was predicted a couple of weeks ago, Stephen Fry has at long last been overtaken at the top of the UK celebrity twitter chart by Coldplay.   Despite joining the Twitter revolution only 74 days ago, Coldplay have amassed an amazing 425,000 followers, and currently sit 17th in the list of top Twitters. Back to the UK, there two new entries into the top five – Russell Brand eases into fourth place and Neil Gaiman has added almost 100,000 followers in a couple of weeks to get to fourth place.   A

Coldplay are up for this year's Mercury prize alongside debut acts such as Kaiser Chiefs, M.I.A and Bloc Party, it was announced today.   But as well as huge global names - Coldplay's X&Y sold close to 500,000 copies in its first week on sale in the UK - the shortlist includes no fewer than eight debut albums, among them Kitty Jay by Seth Lakeman, a folk artist from Dartmoor who released the album on his own Devon-based record label.   Other debut offerings include albums from Newcastle guit

Coldplay are so paranoid about live gigs, they study the internet after every performance for fan reviews.   Despite their status as one of the biggest live acts in the world today, Coldplay refuse to take their success for granted.   Former The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft [pictured] - who performed with Coldplay at Live 8 last year - reveals, "They're funny lads. After gigs they go on the web seeing what the fans liked. If someone has said the gig was too short they sit around worrying whet

Bono and Chris Martin have teamed up for a song which mocks Live Aid. The pair - both keen charity campaigners who were instrumental in getting together Band Aid 20 for their charity cover of 'Do They Know Its Christmas?' - appear on 'Dove Of Peace', taken from Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie 'Bruno...'.   Studio insiders say Bono and Chris were so amused by lyrics to the fashion-spoof song - which include 'For people of Africa who live in Hell/ They will never wear Chanel' - they were almost u

Millions of fans have been holding vigils around the world in tribute of late music legend Michael Jackson. The singer, 50, was pronounced dead at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday at 2.26pm local time after suffering a heart attack at his rented Bel Air mansion.   As the shocking news of his death reverberated around the globe, crowds gathered to share in their sorrow, from outside the King of Pop's childhood home in Encino, California to the busy streets of Hong Kong. Coldplay

Coldplay paid a touching tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina during their show in New York on Tuesday night (06 September 05) when they dedicated their hit The Scientist to the survivors.   The British group tweaked fans' consciences by showing harrowing footage from America's storm-ravaged southeast on huge screens at Madison Square Garden while they performed the tune.   Frontman Chris Martin also dedicated songs to Johnny Cash and Paris Hilton during the sold out show.   The group per

Canadian fans are about to get all the exciting details on the most anticipated album of 2005, Coldplay's X & Y!   Canada's very own Inside Entertainment magazine is the first to run an in-depth interview with the band about the new album, for the April 2005 Issue. The band generously gave an unprecedented amount of time to the magazine resulting in a Cover Story featuring fantastic photos from Anthony Mandler and an incredible article from the magazine's guest editor, acclaimed journalist N

"I want something just like THIS!" By all indication, the highly anticipated Kaleidoscope EP is shaping up to be worth the wait. Coldplay unveiled their latest track, 'All I Can Think About is You' in a surprise performance at the Tokyo Dome on April 19th. Chris also mentioned that the band recorded the Tokyo Dome show and will release it as a Live Album soon!     We got a hint of its hauntingly beautiful melody from Chris's soundcheck in Taipei, Taiwan on April 11th. Now the full version is

Coldplay, Katy Perry, Tony Bennett and Neil Young plumbed Paul McCartney’s vast songbook in taking the former Beatle on a musical journey of his more than 50-year career, writes the Washington Post this weekend, in a review article of the MusiCares Paul McCartney tribute concert in Los Angeles (10th February). They joined James Taylor, Diana Krall and Foo Fighters among others in launching Grammy weekend Friday night by honoring McCartney as the MusiCares Person of the Year. More review discussi

I mentioned yesterday, nothing is really expected to happen today with major live dates happening at the end of the week, oh how that proved to be wrong! Coldplay made a surprise visit to the BBC Radio 1 studios just after mid-day in London where they performed Magic and Oceans which was heard for the first time to those who did not attend the secret shows (which is pretty much all of us!). The band revealed they will be headlining Radio 1's big weekend in Glasgow with the delighted Will Champio

Coldplay topped the bill for this year's Christmas Top Of The Pops with a one-off performance of their festive single, Christmas Lights, and will be seen when the show returns to BBC One on December 25.   The BBC audience included Coldplayers from the forum who were lucky enough not only to get tickets but to listen to Coldplay performing Christmas Lights four times. Here are some of their reviews...   They were great! Chris gave someone (from here I think) a flower and someone else got a plectr

Coldplay, who have hit the top of the charts with their latest album ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’, have become only the third band to ever perform live on ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart.   ‘Viva’ has sold over a million copies worldwide since it’s release two weeks ago, placing the band firmly on top of the U.S. charts with the title track despite the song not officially being released as a single.   More on Coldplay on ‘The Daily Show’ here, here onwards. You can watch the vid

Coldplay performed six songs on Jimmy Kimmel last night - including four from the new era, one of which had never been heard of previously. Here is their setlist:   1. Violet Hill [watch] 2. Viva La Vida [watch] 3. Clocks 4. Mystery Song [watch] 5. Lovers In Japan [watch] 6. Fix You   Don't worry - you haven't missed the TV show - these videos were posted by the audience. Coldplay will be musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on June 4th (tomorrow). The show airs at 12:05am on ABC. You can see th

A Little Later. A selection of classic performances from artists featured on Later with Jools Holland. In this edition, Coldplay perform singles from their album Parachutes, including Shiver, Yellow and Don’t Panic.   Starting: 21:50 on Wednesday 31st January. Duration: 10 minutes Showing on BBC HD (High Definition).  

HALIFAX (CP) - Honeyed ballads edged out rock anthems with Michael Buble winning a leading four Juno Awards this weekend, as the music community gathered in Halifax to fete its best offerings with a sexy celebration.   A scantily clad Pamela Anderson kicked off Sunday's televised show gushing about the Canadian music scene, but quickly turned to her political views on the East Coast seal hunt. "I don't mind a little blood on the ice when it's a hockey rink, but I hate seeing blood on the ice whe

Coldplay performed in a sell-out gig last night to celebrate the launch of their third album which is set to become one of the biggest sellers of all time.   Hundreds of fans queued – some from 3pm the day before the gig – to get tickets for the one-off concert at the 1,200 capacity Koko in Camden, north London, as many more raced to the shops to get their hands on the X&Y album which went on sale yesterday.   Industry experts are predicting that more than 400,000 copies of the album will fl

Coldplay's gig at the Filaforum in Milan were given an added bonus on the setlist - Trouble and Shiver.   Trouble was played for the first time on the current Twisted Logic tour. Shiver was also a newcomer to the tour, making up part of the encore. Full details of the setlist and multimedia are here   Meanwhile a new 2006 tour date has sprouted on talkthetour.com - Coldplay will play at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, ON on the 17th March [thanks Owen].

On Friday night, Coldplay arrived on stage at E-Werk, Cologne, Germany to a rapturous applause as they started to perform an outstanding setlist in a very warm atmosphere (literally!), sweat already started trickling down Chris' forehead as the band started off with the ridiculously beautiful Always in My Head which has been re-worked since their performance at the ITunes festival in March and is now more similar to the studio version which has not been heard in full but a clip played on the Zan

Coldplay performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as part of the Mercedes-Benz Summer Concert Series. You can now view their performances of Viva la Vida and Lost! online. The performance of Lost! is an online exclusive only and wasn't aired on television.   There is also a Coldplay fan interview where John Melendez quizzes the hardest of hard-core Coldplay fans on their trivia skills! Watch the performances below [thanks BoredTerry, Hollywoodpunk & Cris_Santos]   Viva La Vida Lost! Coldp

Coldplay have been joined onstage by some stunningly talented people. Chris duetted with Noel Gallagher many moons ago, Elton John has graced the Coldplay piano stool and more recently, Michael Stipe shared the mic with the guys.   Today, however comes an event that seems difficult to ever top. Today, Coldplay will be performing with The Muppets. Apparently, The Muppets are still going strong in Spain, going under the name ‘Los Lunis’. The fellas are joined onstage by three of ‘Los Lunis’ for a

Details of the "premier line-up" of 4Music, a reincarnation of music TV channel The Hits, have been outlined. Shows will include performances from Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Sugababes and The Verve and extensive live V Festival coverage.   Channel 4 and Bauer Media, which are behind the venture, said 4Music signified the rebirth of music TV. 4Music will be launched over the V Festival weekend and be available on Sky 360, Virgin 330 and Freeview 18.   Alexa Chung, Nick Grimshaw, Miquita Oliver, Lau