Reactions to Coldplay's "Ghost Stories" so far...

Yesterday, it was thought a stream of Coldplay's new album, Ghost Stories would be available to stream a week in advance, it was a likely but hopeful prediction and a few fans on our forums mentioned previous recent albums, such as Turn Blue by the Black Keys were streamed from around 8pm GMT and in the end, it was exactly what happened with Coldplay! Swarms of Coldplayers gathered around their online streams or radio's to listen to the Zane Lowe show on BBC Radio 1 around 2pm EST, 7pm GMT as their producers had advised us on Twitter, they were playing new Coldplay tracks from Ghost Stories. Parts of the now famous Chris Martin interview were aired once more as Always in My Head, A Sky Full of Stars and O were played in full this time. This was superseded by the announcement of the album being streamed in full on iTunes.

iTunes stream of Coldplay's new album, "Ghost Stories" :

Coldplay - Ghost Stories

The stream itself includes a stunning visual experience, giving a more immersed feel to the brilliant album cover artwork by Mila Fürstová which was brought to life by trunkanimation as Phil Harvey mentioned on Twitter.

Kudos and a thousand thank yous @trunkanimation for creating such a beautiful animation #ghoststories http://t.co/ybyzyYiyKc PH

 

— Coldplay (@coldplay) May 12, 2014

Truthfully, the first expected revealing of Coldplay's new album was thought to be a leak as had been the case with previous Coldplay album's and the majority of album releases nowadays. There was a huge 'megathread' on the Coldplaying forums discussing the possibility of a leak and it became massive, growing at over 100 pages a day with over 4,500 posts from enthused Coldplay fans! It become so huge in fact, the forum decided to swallow it up just after the streaming announcement! A number of users on Twitter reported having the album early although there was a lack of evidence for most cases. Coldplay's record label, Parlophone can count the streaming announcement as mission accomplished as they had achieved the best possible scenario in a very openly shared environment that exists online. The news was all about the streaming rather than the leak and the record label can focus on a potential huge first week for the album release. Coldplay fans greeted the album with very positive reviews all over Facebook, Twitter and our forums. We asked Coldplayers on our messageboards, to vote for their 3 favourite tracks off Ghost Stories after the initial streaming. The results were in favour of Always in My Head, True Love and O as the top 3 popular 'Ghost Stories'.

You can continue to vote in the above poll on our forum sidebar!

Another opportunity to vote comes in the form of a single vote poll to label your favourite track off the album so far.

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Now, featuring the first thoughts Ghost Stories according to the world of the Coldplaying forums : First track and beautiful opener, Always in My Head, according to bdevil89

The upbeat and fun, Ink, in the view of the aptly named, The Philosopher

The distinguished guitar solo from Jonny Buckland on emotional heartbreaker, True Love is explained excellently by Skypala

Valypan had this to say about the haunting, Another's Arms

Great imagination from Indnsky, reflecting on Oceans and the outro to A Sky Full of Stars

And for the last properly unheard track from Ghost Stories, O (Fly on), howyousawtheworld tells us

The final track off the album features an outro that cycles back to the intro of Always in My Head, as Chris Martin told Zane Lowe, features his daughter, Apple on vocals. . O (Fly on) was also liked more times than any other track on our Facebook page.