Coldplay News

Coldplay are still number one on Canada's album charts with Viva La Vida Or Death And All HIs Friends. HMV said it also expects U2’s remastered first three albums to knock “young” pretenders Coldplay off the number one spot worldwide after tomorrow’s release of the “new” editions. Boy, October and War have all been remastered from the original analogue tapes.   The Canadian top 5 is as follows:   1 Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay 2 Nas - Nas 3 One of the Boys - Katy Perry 4

Coldplay axed their expensive stage show as they kicked off their world tour on Monday night (14.07.08).   Despite spending six months planning the shows, the British band opted against using computer graphics and video screens in Los Angeles. Instead, the group – dressed in military-style outfits - went for a more “intimate” feel with basic lighting and a backdrop of artwork from their latest album, ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’, at the venue.   Explaining why they started the tou

Coldplay's Chris Martin spoke to Nova 96.9FM (Sydney radio station) that aired this morning on the Merrick & Rosso & Kate show. Good news for Australian Coldplay fans - Chris says that Coldplay will hopefully tour Australia in February or March next year.   Listen to the interview here [thanks Little Miss Clumsy & Fixed]

Congratulations to Music Industry student Jonah Delso! Delso was selected to open for Coldplay on July 25 at the Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA, through a video contest run by local rock station 93.3 WMMR. Stay tuned for an interview with Delso in the July 25 issue of The Triangle, but for now, check out the winning video here   You may remember Coldplaying.com was involved in a campaign on 6th April 2006, courtesy of Coldplaying member jbarry5503, to distribute 12000 'USA Loves Coldplay' fly

The Brazilian arm of EMI Music (that also revealed the cover of the new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends) are reporting that the video of 'Viva La Vida', the second single taken from the new album, will be available from July 25th and will be broadcast on TV music channels across the world from the beginning of August.   Coldplaying.com recently reported that Coldplay were set to work with film director Anton Corbijn for the video. The band's spokesperson told NME the director and

For more than a month, there’s been a heated battle happening on the weekly Billboard albums sales chart, waged between 2008’s best-selling albums: rapper Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Coldplay’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.   After Wayne’s latest debuted at #1, selling more than a million copies, Coldplay’s LP swooped in, knocking Tha Carter III from the top spot, where the rockers’ record stayed for two weeks. Last week, Wayne made a comeback, reclaiming the peak position.   Acc

Coldplay’s hugely anticipated new album was released on June 12th and has been flying off the shelves at Woolworths stores at a rate of 20 copies every minute.   The sales rush sets the album, called Viva La Vida, on course to be the biggest selling record of 2008. Over 302,000 CD and download sales in the first three days alone ensured it hit the top of the UK album chart. The previous week’s number one album, Paul Weller’s 22 Dreams, sold 63,000 in its first week of release.   “The new Coldpl

Coldplay.com: Good afternoon. Tomorrow evening (July 17th), Coldplay will play an outdoor show as part of the Summer Concert Series on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A limited number of tickets will be available from NBC from 8am tomorrow morning. Tickets will be first come, first served.   The Guest Relations offices are located at 3000 W. Alameda Ave., Burbank on the California Street or west side of the studio facilities. You'll need to be at least 16 to attend and anyone under 21 should bri

Spin website offers Coldplay archive   Coldplay.com: Good afternoon. We can reveal that the website of US music publication Spin has launched an online archive of all their Coldplay coverage, from the band’s first mention in December 2000 right up to this month’s cover story. Cleverly, Spin have called the archive, “Everything’s Not Lost”. For more on this breaking news, click here.   Here’s how Spin first introduced Coldplay’s Chris Martin in a story from our Noise section in December 2000:  

It was the same setlist as the night before, except for the addition of What If instead of Trouble. Photos from Coldplay’s 2nd night at the Los Angeles Forum [including some fantastic ones by ali_baba7, Aaron Weinstein and bronwynlewis] are in the gallery here.   Setlist: Life In Techicolor / Violet Hill / Clocks / In My Place / Viva La Vida / 42 / Yes / The Scientist / Chines Sleep Chant (B-stage) / God Put A Smile Upon My Face (B-stage, new version) / Square One / Speed Of Sound / What If / Lo

LA Weekly blogs have posted an excellent article after following the photographer around at last night's opening LA show at The Forum. Read the full report and all the superb pictures here. Some excellent fan videos have also been uploaded here and we'll be adding more tour images every day to the Coldplaying gallery. Watch this space!   9:37 PM – No shooting until the after the song when Chris is done playing the piano. That’s not what we were told, but that’s what I find out. They’re not kiddi

Coldplay.com: For the next five months, Oxfam will join us as we take the Viva La Vida tour around the world. To keep you up to date with life on the road from an Oxfam perspective, they'll be posting a regular blog at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/. Head over there now to read what they made of last night's first show... (here's an excerpt of the latest entry below):   What a show. Lights, cameras, and action. The band and the crew did a fantastic job tonight. As if the crowd weren’t exci

“I can tell this is gonna be a good one,” Chris Martin declared just two songs into Coldplay’s rousing tour kickoff Monday night at the Forum, the band’s first of two shows at the hallowed arena.   Even at that point, after the crowd erupted for “Violet Hill,” singing along as if its melody were as ingrained as those of “Clocks” or “Yellow,” it wasn’t hard to determine why Martin felt so optimistic. Here, like at no Southern California show the quartet has played, you could feel waves of ecstasy

Setlist: Life In Techicolor / Violet Hill / Clocks / In My Place / Viva La Vida / 42 / Yes / The Scientist / Chines Sleep Chant (Sidestage) / God Put A Smile Upon My Face (Sidestage, new version) / Square One / Speed Of Sound / Trouble / Lost / Strawberry Swing / Yellow (Crowd acoustic) / Death Will Never Conquer (Crowd acoustic, Will Champion) / Fix You / Lovers In Japan / Death And All Of His Friends   The band started playing at around 9:30 with Life in Technicolor... which was absolutely fan

A reminder that Coldplay and All Their Friends -- including Shearwater, Santogold, and possibly you-- are set to launch into orbit, hopefully with magic balls (pictured) on Coldplay's world tour in support of their fourth album.   The tour kicks off tonight (July 14) in Los Angeles and takes the band across North America, the UK, Europe, and Japan. Don't forget, to celebrate their tour beginning, Coldplay are offering a free download of a new song not included on Viva la Vida or Death and All Hi

Beck's eighth studio album, Modern Guilt, is likely to end up with a final sales tally somewhere between 75,000 and 80,000 copies in its first week of release, according to Hits Daily Double.   That's good enough to debut in the Top Five on this week's Billboard album chart but not quite the amount needed to displace either Coldplay or rapper Lil'Wayne from the top spot. One of those acts will once again be Number One after several weeks of trading back and forth, with the loser likely to finish

Coldplay are number one in the album chart for the fifth week in a row with 'Vival La Vida.'   The indie outfit's fourth record has now shifted in excess of 600,000 units, meaning that it is already double platinum in the UK. The album has gone to the top spot in an incredible 36 countries, and has been certified platinum in 31 of those and double-platinum in the UK and Canada.   Despite 'Viva La Vida's global success, it's still only the second biggest selling album in the UK this year with Du

There are plenty of people out there who are looking to make it big, but they just need a break to get there. Fendline is a Western Mass band with a lot of heart, a great sound, and some big goals. "My dream was to just stand in front of thousands and thousands of people and just play," said vocalist and guitar player Chris Lomma.   One day Fendline came across a radio contest from WFNX to be the opening act for Coldplay's Boston show. "Took a shot send the video in and see what could happen fro

Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Incubus, The Flaming Lips, and Tenacious D took the stage to pay tribute to legendary rock band The Who and gave the audience a night to remember. The third annual “VH1 Rock Honors” honored the music and influence of revolutionary rock band, The Who. This was the first “VH1 Rock Honors” to salute just one band.   The show saluted The Who through spoken tributes and filmed packages featuring Sting, Dave Navarro, Billy Idol, Billy Bob Thornton, Noel Gallagher, Slash, Coldp

Voting is now open for unknown acts to join the bill on Coldplay's upcoming "Viva La Vida" tour of North America.   Coldplay have announced details of a contest for six summer concerts, appealing for aspiring groups to submit video performances to their local radio station - which they have done in droves. Support roles are required for concerts in Chicago, San Jose, Philadelphia, DC, Boston and Hartford.   The members of Coldplay will then judge the three videos that receive the most votes acro

Coldplay have notched up their fifth consecutive week at the top of the UK albums chart with Viva La Vida. The album – full title Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – has already sold more than 600,000 copies.   Still going strong after 19 weeks in the chart is Rockferry by Welsh songstress Duffy at two, with Chris Brown’s Exclusive and We Started Nothing by the Ting Tings just behind.   Top five UK albums   1 Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – Coldplay (1) 2 Rockferry – Duffy (2

Coldplay are standing tall at the top of the European albums chart - Viva La Vida is the most popular disc for the third successive week.   The band held off competition from Welsh soul star Duffy's Rockferry, Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, and Madonna's Hard Candy. They all remain at second, third and fourth place respectively for another week.   The only new entry in the top five is Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros' Meo Suo I Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust. Meanwhile, Duffy remains atop the European si

Despite doing minimal publicity for it, Coldplay have reached the No 1 spot in 36 different countries with their latest album Viva La Vida, report Virgin Media.   It has been the No 1 best-selling album in the UK for the last four weeks, and enjoyed the top spot in the States for two weeks. In doing so, its success has surpassed that of the band's last album X&Y which reached No 1 in 32 countries in 2005.   Viva La Vida set the record for the highest first week album sales ever on the iTunes

2008 Concert Volunteer Application - Support Oxfam at Coldplay shows!   A reminder that Oxfam America are still looking for volunteers to help out at Coldplay shows in the US - there are still spots available for most Coldplay US shows - starting THIS MONDAY AND TUESDAY at The Forum in LA. Fill in the form here for your application. If you wish to apply to more than one concert please fill out one application per concert.   An Oxfam America organizer will respond to you as soon as possible and

Album hits number one internationally   Coldplay report tonight that the Viva La Vida album has done pretty well recently:   Good evening. It was announced today that Coldplay's latest album, Viva La Vida, has now topped the chart in 36 countries. These countries are said to include the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand. More on this story as we get it.   It was announced yesterday that Co