Suhit

Hello everyone! Any idea what the special studio experience was about recently when Coldplay invited a few of their top listeners in Spotify to come to the studio on the 14th of March? Read a post on reddit that a few new songs were played: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coldplay/comments/1ru2jya/what_was_that_for/

On a side note, it's quite interesting to see how much the band is trying to sell this album, and get the stats on international charts, etc. The appearance on QVC was really really surprising for me to see how far the four of them were willing to go to sell the album. In addition to the fact that Chris said that All My Love is the last single, this PR strategy seems to really hint that they want to make all the money they can with this album in order to finance their green technologies in the rest of the MOTS tour and also to finance the musical album/film. It might also be some kind of a contract requirement or pressure from Parlophone to achieve a target of sales/revenue (although I also think Coldplay are so massive now that Parlophone would also find it difficult to lay down conditions for the band to fulfill). What do you guys think? EDIT: Just another thought. I remember the ticket prices for the concerts in Mumbai, India were MUCH lower than the average ticket prices in Europe, etc., and I think the band did this to make it more affordable to the average Indian Coldplay fan. I'm guessing they also need to offset those costs somewhere. Either way, it's really interesting to look (vaguely, and not precisely ofc) at the business model of Coldplay, and how they might be trying to make a lot of ends meet for different people.

I can't begin to say how much I agree with EVERYTHING on this post; literally each and every point, including my opinion about Biutyful 🙃. Really well summarised as well!

Hahaha true, I get that. Maybe I'll follow suit and take the route of cautious optimism?

I agree. I think it might just become the pop equivalent of Viva. And while I agree that Phil will obviously hype and promote every album (as he rightly should), he wouldn't make a comparison to Viva knowing how much the fandom loves that album, unless he really thinks there's something special there. Only time will tell off, and September really feels like too far away!

Same here! But this is how I remember discussions here on coldplaying when I joined the forum in 2009. Absolutely loved going through this thread, which for once didn't have an oldplay vs. newplay discussion 🤣

Well, it was still a lot of fun doing this with you guys, and I think that's what matters, so thanks for the company!

Well. We got a new song.

If they actually end with this song, I'll be stunned. 😂

Well, it IS a new song. Chris wrote it last night. And it's called Orange.

Ah never mind. I think he's gonna sing Orange acoustic.

oooo might be a new song coming...!

One more song to go. No new song yet. Looks like they'll end with Biutyful to be honest.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8775jele54o

I'm wondering at this point if they're avoiding playing Yellow just because there was so much pressure to replace the word with Orange 😅