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Another year has passed and Coldplayer 'Chris's Nuts' is asking you to submit your top 25-50 Coldplay songs in ranked order in the new 2010 Top 50 Coldplay Song List mega poll which marks the end of the Viva La Vida era and of course the end of the noughties decade.   Your lists are being submitted until January 31st, 2010 in the Coldplay forum here - please also make sure that you are aware of the rules before posting your lists.   In 2006 The Scientist [pictured, top left] was voted Coldplay f

DEADLINE: 15th OF OCTOBER ***SUNDAY***   it means you have 5 weeks to vote - post a list of minimum 25 and maximum 50 favourite Coldplay songs in order (1st, 2nd, 3rd...27th etc.) - the song doesn't have to be released, it also can be an unreleased live recording (Marianne, Ladder To The Sun) or cover (Ring Of Fire, Here Comes The Sun) - songs which have more versions (Talk, How You See The World, Brothers and Sisters) count as 1 song. no difference between for example HYSTW v.1 and v.2. you can

Absolute Radio has launched an initiative to engage online music communities and attract listeners to the rebranded music station.   Its 'rock-off' targets online communities for core Absolute artists such as Oasis, Kings of Leon and Coldplay, encouraging them to create playlists in the hope of winning a radio show dedicated to their favourite singer or band. The ten-track playlists will be judged by Absolute Radio's online community as the participating forums compete in a knock-out.   The orig

Absolute Radio has launched an initiative to engage online music communities and attract listeners to the rebranded music station.   Its 'rock-off' targets online communities for core Absolute artists such as Oasis, Kings of Leon and Coldplay, encouraging them to create playlists in the hope of winning a radio show dedicated to their favourite singer or band. The ten-track playlists will be judged by Absolute Radio's online community as the participating forums compete in a knock-out.   The orig

Voting is now over for the Coldplaying Chrismas Competition...   Coldplay Christmas Prestent won with 87 votes, Happy Holidays 2nd with 84 votes, and Parachutes at Christmas in third place. Prizewinners will be emailed shortly. Look out for a new competition in the new year!

There have been several requests for the Wartimes video to be put back up.   An atmospheric insight into Anti-war and the result of destruction. Soundtracked by 'Politik'. Worth a view. Right click the link below and 'Save Target As' to download. Special thanks to Nolan.   Wartimes

The feedback that fans have been waiting for since sending out postcards from around the world is now online. Here's Anchorman with news just in:   Good afternoon. Just before Christmas, the fine folks at Coldplay fansite Coldplaying.com came up with the terrific idea of sending the band postcards from across the world. Hundreds of fans did just that. Below is Roadie #42's film of the band reading them at The Bakery a couple of weeks ago (soundtracked, of course, by the song which inspired the p

Welcome back to Coldplaying.com, the site has moved servers if you didn't already know. Hopefully you should find things a bit faster than before.   There are still one or two things to iron out, including the messageboard. We'll get these back up properly as soon as we can.   Ian

Welcome to the new, redesigned Coldplaying.com! We hope you like it ;)   Special mention & thanks goes to Stephen (Stephend2000 on the forums), who has helped me out with the transformation and has implemented the same style on our sister site, www.wikicoldplay.com   Let us know what you think below or via this announcement thread.   More thanks to a2iel too, who designed the logo (inspired by Coldplay's video shoot in India).   We're fully ready for 'A Head Full Of Dreams' now!   Chec

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.   The links you need to bookmark are the following:   http://www.wikicoldplay.com http://wiki.coldplaying.com

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).   The links you need to bookmark are the following:   http://www.wiki

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

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

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

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).   The links you need to bookmark are the following:   http://www.wiki

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

Rumours and discussion on the timing of Coldplay's new single and album have gone into overdrive in the last few days, as the band's festival tour dates loom large. Official sources are tight-lipped about any new release, but in 16 days Coldplay will hit the stage at the Rock am Ring/Rock im Park festivals in Germany whilst their new album hits the mixing tables in New York (or so we're led to believe).   We have previously reported what the media have said about no new festival material and of

Wikicoldplay.com is back! The comprehensive encyclopedia had been offline for around a year but after some much needed development work (with huge thanks to Stephend2000!), WikiColdplay is back online, in it's full former glory.   We posted about Wikicoldplay, our sister site recently but we've made some changes since then, so that it's available for everyone. The main change is the mobile friendly view, which was sorely lacking before. You can visit WikiColdplay on your mobile's browser or thr

We are very happy to announce that Wikicoldplay, our sister site is back online! The comprehensive Coldplay Wikipedia had been offline for almost a year, as the software needed upgrading and a migration from Mediawiki to Wordpress had been planned, to make the site more mobile friendly and easier to use.   A HUGE thank you goes out to Stephend2000, on our forums, who is a developer and has kindly helped us out with updating the site and the current transition towards Wordpress.   The 'old sch

Would you like to own one of the Mylo Xyloto lithographs, hand-signed by Paris, being sold for £250 in Coldplay's fundraiser for Kids Company? Here's your chance!   Coldplaying is hosting a raffle for the chance to win your choice of the 3 lithographs (shown below/after the jump). You can be entered into the raffle for as little as £5. The more you contribute, the more entries you get! £5 buys you one entry, £10 buys you two entries and so on.   Not only will one of you be the lucky winner, but

Semi-final: Coldplay (Coldplaying) vs. Green Day (Green Day Community)   Please vote NOW for the Coldplay playlist HERE! (no registration required)   Coldplaying.com has made it to the semi-finals of Absolute Radio's Rock-Off competition representing Coldplay in the playoffs against other music forums across the internet. The semi-final matches opened on Ben Jones’s show tonight with Coldplay v Green Day. The public will have a day to vote on their favourite playlist between these two forums. Th

WHERE: Absolute Radio Live Stories Competition WHO: David Sheppard (coldplaying.com) WHEN: Now! WHAT: Please vote for David Sheppard (coldplaying.com) now!   Coldplaying.com has made it to the final of Absolute Radio's Live Stories competition where the prize up for grabs is a special live festival-themed radio show for Coldplaying on Absolute Radio with songs hand picked by you, the Coldplayers! We are voting for Chavi Loch (via David Shepperd) and the excellent review of U2 at Wembley last mo

In association with recordstore.co.uk, Coldplaying.com are offering three people the chance to win limited edition Coldplay lithographs!   These limited edition lithographs featuring artwork from Coldplay LPs and singles are hand-numbered and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. You can view the current selection of limited edition Coldplay lithographs offered by recordstore.co.uk here. They are now available for pre-order, and will be available for shipping starting the 23rd of May.   If yo

A list of 'Help' pages has been added to the WikiColdplay project to give you guidance on browsing, searching, editting, and customising the Wiki. Simply click on the links here to get you started.   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).   The links you need to bookmark are

A list of 'Help' pages has been added to the WikiColdplay project to give you guidance on browsing, searching, editting, and customising the Wiki. Simply click on the links here to get you started.   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 WikiColdplay is simply log into your messageboard account as normal, or post as a guest (limited permissions).   The links you need to bookmark are