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Coldplaying.com would like to wish all our visitors and members a very merry Christmas and prosperous New Year for 2008.   The site will remain unaffected throughout the festive period so please send in all your emails and contributions as normal.   We will bring you all the latest Coldplay news in 2008 as soon as it breaks - it promises to be an even busier year with LP4 due to be released. In the meantime click here to see Coldplay as you've never seen them before. If you missed Coldplay's Chr

A warm thank you to all who have donated to the $1.36 Campaign!   It doesn't matter if you've donated once or 10 times; if you've donated $1.36 or $100 - the fact is that we appreciate your thoughtful contributions and want to acknowledge your kindness. In just a little over a year and a half, we've raised an amazing sum of more than $1200.00 USD.   This money has gone to aid Zali Djiré and his friends. Because of your donations, Zali and his community in Gouaran (a small town in southeast Mali)

Who deserves the Album of the Year 2007? To find the best, worst and most inane of this past year, Coldplaying turns to you.   Put forward your list here. You can list 5 - 25 original albums, released in 2007. Rank determines the points an album gets. Deadline for submissions: December 15 10:00pm EST (3am GMT). [Thanks Erin]   Is your favourite album being ignored? Write a blurb about it! To see last year’s thread go here. To see last year's countdown go here. For ideas, check out the mid year

Coldplay Chronology: The Complete Guide   On May 1, 2007, Coldplay.com was temporarily shut down. When the site was accessed, a note appeared atop an image of the previous site, reading: We are building a new site. It will be here VERY soon. Love, Coldplay.   On June 18, 2007, the site was relaunched with a new design that resembles a journal timeline with hand written excerpts, pictures, and videos. Based around a timeline of the band’s history, the site is designed to keep you entertained unt

Coldplaying.com has landed in at 11th place overall in the People's Choice Award for Best Unofficial Music Site at the recent DMA Digital Music Awards in London.   This eclipses our previous best of 36th place in 2005. Thankyou to all who voted for Coldplaying.com. Read more for the full 200 list.   NowPlayit.com - the website created by Outside Line, who also created Coldplay.com have won Best Digital Service at this year’s BT Digital Music Awards. You may remember recently we posted informatio

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

Who deserves the Album of the Year 2007?   To find the best, worst and most inane of this past year, Coldplaying turns to you. Add your 2007 list to the thread here (and read the rules first!)   [thanks Erin]

Stay connected to us - and get so much more - with the Coldplaying Community Toolbar!   It's free, dynamic, with no spyware or viruses, blocks pop-ups, provides RSS feeds and news, a range of search engines, and no personal information is required. Get the latest Coldplay content delivered directly to your browser, no matter where you are on the web. Search the Web, our site, and other useful engines and tap into our RSS feed and stay on top of the latest Coldplay headlines.   Download the toolb

The Digital Music Awards 2007 are already upon us, and Coldplaying.com has been in the running for the best music site on the net in the People's Choice Awards every year since they've been online. We have taken our usual place in the voting line up, in the Best Unofficial Music Site category.   A short message from Bob Dylan should pursuade you that it's a good idea to pledge your support to Coldplaying.com.   To vote for us [ONE VOTE PER DAY!] click here. Spread the link around. Tell your frie

We're spicing things up for The $1.36 Campaign and holding a raffle! The deadline for buying tickets is 22nd September!   The prize is a sealed, unopened limited edition 7" vinyl-only Coldplay Singles (1999-2006) Boxset (Coldplay.com: "Featuring 14 releases across 15 heavyweight 7", packaged in original artwork and housed in a presentation box, this collection also features a number of singles never released on 7 inch vinyl before, including the rarity ‘The Blue Room EP’.")   Buy a $10.00 USD ra

A major part of the upgrading work that has been carried out over the last few weeks was to enable us to create the first independent Coldplay site powered by Wiki. WikiColdplay uses the Coldplaying vBulletin messageboard as a base and has integrated into the pages. All you need to do to add/edit/remove content from ColdplayWiki is simply log into your messageboard account as normal, or post as a guest (limited permissions).   A list of 'Help' pages has been added to the WikiColdplay project to

If you haven't already heard of it, How We See The World is a benefit album comprised entirely of music by members of Coldplaying.com. All proceeds from the sale of this album will go to the Oxfam Unwrapped program. For full details of purchasing and queries visit the messageboard [thanks TracieMorgan]   Here's how to order your copy:   1) The Coldplaying Charity Club shop (For Hard Copy) 2) eMusic - eMusic works with subscription plans. There is a free trial and then a monthly fee for either $9

The Coldplaying.com/CCC Shop now has T-Shirts up for sale (designed and voted on by coldplaying.com members).   All NET proceeds (meaning the profit after Cafepress costs and shipping) from the sale of T-Shirts will go to Zali. Visit http://www.cafepress.com/ccc_shop to see the stock and make your purchase.   CCC Update: The $1.36 Campaign has a new website! The old site will be online for another week, then it will be removed. Please update your bookmarks: http://coldplaying.for.charity.googlep

Stay connected to us - and get so much more - with the Coldplaying Community Toolbar!   It's free, dynamic, with no spyware or viruses, blocks pop-ups, provides RSS feeds and news, a range of search engines, and no personal information is required. Get the latest Coldplay content delivered directly to your browser, no matter where you are on the web. Search the Web, our site, and other useful engines and tap into our RSS feed and stay on top of the latest Coldplay headlines.   Download the toolb

A new mailing from 'Save The Children' has been received, thanks to Nadia for scanning it into a PDF file. The mailing includes a new photo of Zali, plus the Annual Status Report from the Sahel region of Mali. Check it out and see how you've made a difference!!   Zali is Coldplaying's Sponsored Child, thanks to the $1.36 campaign of the past 18 months. So far you have raised over $1000 for the Sponsor A Child project.   Your contribution to Save the Children will support all the work to help chi

We're spicing things up for The $1.36 Campaign and holding a raffle! The deadline for buying tickets is today!   The prize is a sealed, unopened limited edition 7" vinyl-only Coldplay Singles (1999-2006) Boxset (Coldplay.com: "Featuring 14 releases across 15 heavyweight 7", packaged in original artwork and housed in a presentation box, this collection also features a number of singles never released on 7 inch vinyl before, including the rarity ‘The Blue Room EP’.")   Buy a $10.00 USD raffle tick

We're spicing things up for The $1.36 Campaign and holding a raffle! The deadline for buying tickets is now September 14th 2007.   The prize is a sealed, unopened limited edition 7" vinyl-only Coldplay Singles (1999-2006) Boxset (Coldplay.com: "Featuring 14 releases across 15 heavyweight 7", packaged in original artwork and housed in a presentation box, this collection also features a number of singles never released on 7 inch vinyl before, including the rarity ‘The Blue Room EP’.")   Buy a $10.

The Digital Music Awards 2007 are already upon us, and Coldplaying.com has been in the running for the best music site on the net in the People's Choice Awards every year since they've been online. We have taken our usual place in the voting line up, in the Best Unofficial Music Site category.   A short message from Bob Dylan should pursuade you that it's a good idea to pledge your support to Coldplaying.com.   To vote for us [ONE VOTE PER DAY!] click here. Spread the link around. Tell your frie

The Coldplaying.com/CCC Shop now has T-Shirts up for sale (designed and voted on by coldplaying.com members).   All NET proceeds (meaning the profit after Cafepress costs and shipping) from the sale of T-Shirts will go to Zali. Visit http://www.cafepress.com/ccc_shop to see the stock and make your purchase.   CCC Update: The $1.36 Campaign has a new website! The old site will be online for another week, then it will be removed. Please update your bookmarks: http://coldplaying.for.charity.googlep

The Digital Music Awards 2007 are already upon us, and Coldplaying.com has taken its usual place in the voting line up, in the Best Unofficial Music Site category.   We hope to build upon our 54th place in 2003, 44th place in 2004, and 36th place in 2005.   Please pledge your support to Coldplaying.com and click below to vote for the site or click on the banners you see around the site. Every vote counts and is appreciated. Please also tell your friends, even if they don't listen to Coldplay!  

The $1.36 campaign aims to testify that small actions can lead to big differences. All funds raised through this campaign will go to the Sponsor A Child program through which we will be in direct communication with an impoverished child who needs our help. Each month a minimum of $28.00 USD (click here for a currency converter) will need to be raised to support Zali, as well as Zali's community. We believe we can achieve and surpass this goal.   Money will go to "programs that focus on early ch

If you haven't already heard of it, How We See The World is a benefit album comprised entirely of music by members of Coldplaying.com. All proceeds from the sale of this album will go to the Oxfam Unwrapped program. For full details of purchasing and queries visit the messageboard [thanks TracieMorgan]   Here's how to order your copy:   1) The Coldplaying Charity Club shop (For Hard Copy) 2) eMusic - eMusic works with subscription plans. There is a free trial and then a monthly fee for either $9

We're spicing things up for The $1.36 Campaign and holding a raffle!   The prize is a sealed, unopened limited edition 7" vinyl-only Coldplay Singles (1999-2006) Boxset (Coldplay.com: "Featuring 14 releases across 15 heavyweight 7", packaged in original artwork and housed in a presentation box, this collection also features a number of singles never released on 7 inch vinyl before, including the rarity ‘The Blue Room EP’.")   Buy a $10.00 USD raffle ticket for your chance to win this true collec

The Digital Music Awards 2007 are already upon us, and Coldplaying.com has taken its usual place in the voting line up, in the Best Unofficial Music Site category.   We hope to build upon our 54th place in 2003, 44th place in 2004, and 36th place in 2005.   Please pledge your support to Coldplaying.com and click here to vote for the site or click on the banners you see around the site. Every vote counts and is appreciated. Please also tell your friends, even if they don't listen to Coldplay!   T

Only one day to go before the English Premiership starts - JOIN NOW!   You can now join the new 'Coldplaying III' Fantasy Football League at http://fantasy.premierleague.com and create your own team, then use the code 63801-16136 to join the Coldplaying league.   Please ensure you have registered a team and joined the Coldplaying league 11.30am (GMT) on Saturday 11th August to start gaining points from the outset.   For full details on how to register, create a team and join the Coldplaying.com