Ghost Stories

Coldplay's sixth album, 'Ghost Stories' is about to celebrate it's first birthday and Billboard have rather surprisingly pulled out the party poppers a day early, by gifting Coldplay with the 'Top Rock Album'! The band were facing stiff competition against the likes of veteran rockers, AC/DC and Newcomer, Hozier.   A huge congratulations to Coldplay!       More on this, here (Thanks gai)     --------- The Coldplaying app It's here! The very latest Coldplay news, updates, live chat

Coldplay's third track from Ghost Stories, Ink could be the next single as it was revealed earlier today that the uplifting track has been released to US Alternative radio stations. (Thanks Coldplayzone.it)   This move could signal a surprise U-turn from back in August when Ghost Stories artist, Mila Fürstová, released her fantastic artwork for the third single, True Love, mentioning it's the final single from Coldplay's new album. Mila did however, recently talk to Coldplaymag on Tumblr, to

The track which started the wonderful 'Ghost Stories' era. The story from the beginning and a follow up to the 'Always In My Head', 'Magic', 'Ink' and 'True Love' articles throughout this era so far.   Before the dawn of 'Ghost Stories'   On Tuesday 25th February, all was quiet on the Coldplay front with just rumours of 'Magic' being a single due for release in May according to music release schedules and 2 unknown animated images posted on their official website a few days before, someth

Take a look at a brand new clip, exclusively from the director Jonas Åkerlund's website, showing the set of 'True Love' video, with Chris Martin and featuring actress, Jessica Lucas. (thanks MayurShikotra for posting this on the forums)   Behind the Scenes of True Love (stream only available through the website link)   Let us know what you think of the 'True Love' official video a few weeks in. Has the novelty worn off or has the message sunk in and your love of the video is stronger than ever

Coldplay's 'True Love' video - Coldplayer Reactions. The official video for Coldplay's 3rd single from 'Ghost Stories' was unveiled a few days ago. The wacky video, featuring Chris Martin in a sumo suit, with his dream of becoming a dancer at the big ballet received a generally positive response. Praise was given for the fun and humourous nature and the moral of the story, while there was criticism given for the visuals not matching to the feel of the song itself. Let's start off with the stat

A few weeks ago, there were strong rumours on Twitter that Another's Arms was available to download on the Indonesian iTunes page and there was a popularity bar showing, this was accident and reports suggested it was quickly taken off by Apple. One twitter user posted a clip, of which was apparently the studio version of Another's Arms but it was a low quality recording and could of been an edit of the live iTunes version. Fast forward to just a week ago and a credible Twitter fan page uploaded

7th Coldplay album will be the 'completion of a story' & more plans.   Before this week, we knew very little of Coldplay's next album other than the band were set to be working in the studio more after their round of intimate shows for their 6th album, Ghost Stories. The early pre New York solo show interviews didn't reveal much on the new material front, with the interviewers focus being on Chris' personal life, the New York show and his musical influences. This changed as the other day,

Coldplay news is flying in thick and fast! We will give you a breakdown of what's happened so far, all in one article and the time's you need to know for the few days ahead. Coldplay announce next album title! If you missed the big announcement that A Head Full Of Dreams will be Coldplay's next album title, you can read more here. GRAMMY nominations Coldplay have now been nominated for 3 GRAMMY awards! Firstly, for the Best Pop Vocal AlbumTheir 2nd and 3rd nominations were for Best Pop Duo/Gro

Coldplay have treated us to many freebies in the past. They are no strangers to free downloads or even free concerts! There's also companies, such as Google, who just a few days ago had given away the band's latest album, Ghost Stories away for free.   In Google's case, their promotion in celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the Google Play store involved a free giveaway of Coldplay's sixth album, Ghost Stories (On Thursday 5th March to be exact). The album is usually priced at £4.99 on the UK st

A Sky Full of Stars (Avicii edit)   Swedish superstar Avicii's edit of the Ghost Stories track, A Sky Full of Stars, which he produced alongside Paul Epworth, surfaced online, revealing what the energetic, EDM inspired track would be like if the Swedish producer had it all his way! The chorus is full blown EDM, opposed to the mixture of styles Coldplay wanted, to fit into the sound of Ghost Stories.   ^ Chris Martin and Avicii in the studio   A notable inclusion within the Avicii's edit wa

Chris Martin has been talking to audio company, Beats By Dre about the making of A Sky Full Of Stars and how the upbeat EDM inspired song is the most important song Coldplay have made lyrically. The latest behind the scenes video features various instrumentals of Coldplay's second single from Ghost Stories as the frontman goes into further details about the album and the role of A Sky Full Of Stars on it.   Chris expands on the meaning of Ghost Stories : "Ghost Stories is probably an album abou

Since the announcement of Ghost Stories, A Sky Full of Stars has been heavily rumoured to be a single, originally as the third single after they release Another's Arms which was listed by Amazon on their pre-order list for Ghost Stories shortly after the announcement. Another's Arms was shown to have a release date of April 28th while A Sky Full of Stars was listed to be released on 12th May, a week before the album release. These dates were quickly taken down by Amazon.     (Thanks to Tash

A Sky Full of Stars official video Since arriving in Australia earlier on this week, the boys have been busy recording the video in the streets of Sydney, in which 250 fans had a chance to be part of. It was hinted that the A Sky Full of Stars official video would be ready shortly after the making of it, pointing towards a more simpler and fan oriented production, opposite to the Magic video which was very structured and acting oriented. After the band completed their successful Australian leg

A Sky Full of Stars physical single release Coldplay's 2nd single from Ghost Stories, A Sky Full of Stars is set to be released as a physical single later on this month. It was already confirmed to have a June 30th release date in the UK but that was as much information as we could get. This morning, Warner music (who own Coldplay's record label) have now confirmed, A Sky Full of Stars will be available in Germany supposedly from 20th June. The tracklisting can be seen below. No US release date

A Sky Full of Stars video shoot. Coldplay have arrived in Sydney, Australia, ready for their next leg of the Ghost Stories tour. The band are also due to play the '50th Max sessions' show on Wednesday, more on that at the end of the article.   Phil Harvey sent out a tweet yesterday, asking for fans to meet on Australia St, in Sydney for the A Sky Full of Stars video shoot the following day at 11.30am local time.     Many fans were queuing up hours beforehand! (thank you to Stephen Heffe

Late night watching TV, after Midnight during the 'dark core' of Coldplay's Ghost Stories. Another's Arms is mysterious yet simple in the lyrics and undoubtedly haunting.   Welcomed back with open arms!   On the 11th March, Coldplay returned to delight millions of fans tuning in across the world, at the iTunes Festival in Austin, Texas. Another's Arms was one of the two previously unheard tracks (with opener, Always In My Head) performed on the night. The first live version of the sixth Gh

An article has emerged online from Montreal-based Canoe Francais seemingly giving new information on Coldplay's forthcoming sixth album.The article, written in French has been translated and suggests that the album (which we currently call LP6) will be released as early as May or June of 2014, with sounds similar to that of second album 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'. Read on for the nearest translation (and if you speak French, we'll add that below too).Discussion on this is at the LP6 thread in

Chris Martin interviews - "Ghost Stories" album launch period   Photo by Sarah Carroll/AMP Radio   Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin is doing the rounds in various interviews supporting the Monday release of new album, Ghost Stories.   Chris Co-Hosts with Carson Daly on 97.1 Amp Radio   It was announced on short notice that Chris Martin would be Co-Hosting a radio show in Los Angeles. AMP 97.1 Radio to be exact with the regular DJ, Carson Daly. The audio of all three parts to the intervie

Chris Martin streaming on live radio.   The upcoming secret show will not be Chris Martin's only live event next week! Chris is set to appear on US radio station, Fresh 102.7 on Thursday 7th, one day after his live and mainly family and friends show in New York. Fresh FM describe the event as "an acoustic performance of some of Coldplay’s songs from their latest album “Ghost Stories” for a select crowd of lucky fans". This Chris Martin performance is likely to be streamed via Fresh 102.7. There

Coldplay - Always in My Head Ghost Stories has been out in the big wide world for just over 2 weeks. For those who have immersed themselves in the emotional Ghost Stories, it may feel like an age away since the iTunes festival in March showcased some of the new material. Coldplaying.com will look back at where it began for each Ghost Story, the fan reaction, live performances and more.   Today, we start off with Always in My Head, which surprisingly appeared at the start of their appearance a

Coldplay - Magic. In a series of articles on the Ghost Stories tracks, under a month since the full album release, we move on to the second track of the album, Magic, after Always in My Head was summarized recently. We will delve into the realm of live performances, fan reaction, the music video and Guy Berryman's influence on the song!     The magical track from Ghost Stories was announced with the album details as the first official single on March 1st. Magic was available to download as

Backstage at Wednesday's Brit Awards after picking up the prize for 'Best British Live Act', BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley caught up with Will Champion and Jonny Buckland, who spoke briefly about plans for what would be Coldplay's sixth studio record. Asked about new material, Jonny hinted that there is a theoretical album in the works. Will went on to say: "Me and Jonny have been going into the studio just noodling; we go in and noodle for an hour and then go get a cup of tea or coffee! But no... the

Coldplay album sales : The past, present and future With the release of Ghost Stories, Coldplay are set to score a sixth UK number 1 album in a row, only one behind the seven The Beatles accomplished from their debut, Please Please Me in 1963 to Revolver in 1966 and set to be one in front of fellow UK band, Keane, who also have a perfect run of number 1 albums in the UK! Coldplay have also enjoyed a 100% album number 1 record in Norway. In the US album market, Coldplay are about to achieve thei

Surprise! Just as the 86th Academy Awards (Oscars to you and me) were wrapping up and most people with common sense were heading to bed (or were already there), Coldplay‘s new album Ghost Stories was made available on iTunes to pre-order. Join the evolving discussion at the Ghost Stories sub-forum now.   Nine tracks make up what was previously known as just 'LP6', including the experimental 'Midnight,' the video for which premiered last week, and new single 'Magic,' available as a download when

The Official Coldplay website has confirmed the band will play a one-off show in Munich, Germany on Saturday 6th December. During the past few weeks, Warner Music Poland were running a competition for Polish Citizens to win tickets via their Twitter page and official website. The wait has certainly been an anxious one for German Coldplayers in particular, awaiting further details of an apparent standalone live show but will now have their devices ready for when tickets go on sale at 9am (German