[zakman440]

You can say what you like about this band, but they still put on a hell of a show.

[zakman440]

What a show . And with that, it's been announced that they'll be playing the NFL Super Bowl Half Time Show in 2016!

[zakman440]

A Head Full of Dreams is out NOW!

[zakman440]

The band will be hosting a special live Facebook event to celebrate the album launch at 3:30PM today - including a fan Q&A.

https://www.facebook.com/coldplay

[zakman440]

Under 5 minutes to go!

https://www.facebook.com/coldplay/po...56353197900253

[zakman440]

a bit late but Coldplay are now LIVE on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/coldplay/po...56353197900253

[zakman440]

A Head Full of Dreams is already #1 in OVER 70 COUNTRIES!

[lewis111]

Much better Than Ghost Stories but it's no Mylo Xyloto

[lewis111]

Ł10 for 11 songs, 2 of them being 1 minute long seems quite a a lot though

Fun & Army of one are the only ones I like but Fun is amazing

[zakman440]

So A Head Full of Dreams landed on the chart at #2 this week... But it's not all bad news, as they've had their strongest opening sales week since 2008's Viva la Vida.

Whilst I'd have liked it to go to #1, there's just no escaping the fact that Adele is outselling everyone atm. But I'm sure that it will eventually get the top spot when the Adele hype dies down a bit.

[Smithy]

Both are doing XF this weekend it'll be interesting to see who ends up #1 afterwards

[zakman440]

^Adele retained the number 1 in the end

Anyway, the music video for Birds has (unexpectedly) been released.

Youtube video

[zakman440]

Ah, and apparently Beyonce and RiRi are joining them at the Halftime show.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...ldplay-7084867

[zakman440]

The band have been nominated for Best British Group and Album of the Year at this year's BRIT awards! They will also perform at the ceremony on February 24.

http://www.brits.co.uk/nominees

[zakman440]

Hymn For The Weekend has now been confirmed as the second single from the new album - a wise choice.

[Marsh.]

The artwork for this looks like they just discovered word art on Microsoft 98.

[zakman440]

A LOT of updates here:

- The band are of course headlining the Superbowl Halftime Show tomorrow night (it's at 12:30 UK time on BBC Two/Sky Sports). Bruno Mars and Beyoncé have been confirmed to join the performance, as well as YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles).
- They've recently announced all of their US dates for the AHFOD Tour (you can see the list at coldplay.com)
- Coldplay are to receive the "Godlike Genius" gong at the NME Awards, as well as being nominated for "Best Single" with Adventure Of A Lifetime. They will also play a full set.
- The band will perform at Indigo at the O2 on Wednesday 24th February - in partnership with BRITs Week and Warchild.
- The Hymn For The Weekend music video has been released, and has already gained over 30 million views (watch it below):

Youtube video

- Chris Martin recently joined James Corden for a special Carpool Karaoke which was good:

Youtube video

So yeah - roll on Sunday!

[Drew.]

The carpool was one of my favourites they've done. Really looking forwards to the SB half time show as well.

[zakman440]

They smashed it at the Halftime Show last night - the bridge between Clocks and Fix You .

Youtube video

[zakman440]

A Head Full of Dreams is set to be the new UK #1 after last night's Superbowl performance!

It was their only studio album not to top the Official Albums Chart, but it looks like Coldplay's luck is about to change, as A Head Full Of Dreams leads the way in the race to Number 1.

Thwarted by Adele's mega-selling 25 on its original release in December 2015, A Head Full Of Dreams zooms back up the chart, almost 8,000 combined sales ahead of its nearest rival, to take the top spot at this midway stage.

If it holds on, A Head Full Of Dreams will give Coldplay their seventh UK album, topping off an amazing week for the band, which saw them give a spectacular performance at the 50th Super Bowl halftime show, along with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars.

Read more: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...e-show__13780/

Sales are also rising in the US iTunes Chart as well:

Meanwhile, Chris Martin will appear on the front cover of this month's Rolling Stone.

And the bands performance at the end of the Halftime Show was the most tweeted about moment of the Superbowl.

[zakman440]

There's also a gallery of photos from the Halftime Show over on the Coldplay website: http://coldplay.com/what-a-night/

So yeah, things are going well for them after last night!

[zakman440]

A Head Full Of Dreams is officially the current Number 1 album in the UK!

A Number 1 is always worth the wait, and Coldplay's patience has been rewarded today as they finally score a seventh chart-topping album with A Head Full Of Dreams.

The news comes days after the band's dazzling performance at the Super Bowl 50's halftime show, where they shared the stage with Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson and Beyoncé.


The album's climb to the summit gives them a straight run of Number 1 studio albums since Parachutes topped the Official Albums Chart in 2000. See Coldplay's Top 20 biggest selling singles in the UK.

A Head Full of Dreams was released back in December 2015, where it was kept off Number 1 by the mighty force of Adele's 25. This week, though, it's Adele's turn to sit in second place as she climbs two spots to Number 2.

Last week's Number 1, David Bowie's hits collection Best Of Bowie, slides to Number 3, while Justin Bieber's Purpose nudges back up one to Number 4 and Bowie's Blackstar falls three places to 5.

Read More: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...mber-1__13820/

Adventure Of A Lifetime has also risen to 11 in the singles chart, and Hymn For The Weekend is a new entry at 23!

[zakman440]

(A better upload of the Halftime Show):

Youtube video

[zakman440]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Coldplay are topping the bill for this year's Glastonbury Festival for the fourth time - making them the only act to ever headline the festival four times.

Good morning. Coldplay today became the first headline act to be confirmed for Glastonbury Festival 2016. They will top the Pyramid Stage bill on Sunday, June 26th.

The band will become the first artists to headline Glastonbury on four occasions, following previous Pyramid Stage headline appearances in 2002, 2005 and 2011. Their 2011 set was later voted the Top Glastonbury Moment of the event’s long history by BBC Radio listeners.

The Glastonbury performance will be Coldplay’s only festival show of this year’s A Head Full Of Dreams Tour. The band have already sold more than two million tickets for their run of stadium dates in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. The entire tour – which includes four nights at London’s Wembley Stadium – is now close to selling out.

Anchorman

http://coldplay.com/glastonbury-head...lot-announced/

The NME also interviewed Johnny and Will about headlining for the fourth time:

Youtube video

Meanwhile, in a separate article, they interviewed the whole band - with the full interview coming this Friday.

Coldplay are now set to be the only act in Glastonbury’s 46-year history to headline the Pyramid Stage four times. In a new interview due to be published in this Friday's free NME magazine, Chris Martin said, Worthy Farm is "the closest thing to a homecoming gig" the band have got. "I’d play there every day if we were allowed to," he added.

Here, in an excerpt from the interview, Chris and the band discuss what it’s actually like to be onstage at such a humungous gig, and why for years it was always so tough to actually enjoy the moment.

Can you actually see anything from the stage when you’re up there?

Chris Martin: "It really depends. Sometimes we ask to see. You know, ‘Can we turn the lights up, Graham?’ Because Graham’s our [lighting] guy. That’s really all we can see. I think one of the reasons why award shows or TV shows feel a bit different is because you’re much more aware of the audience being there than you are in a regular gig. I think that’s why it takes a while to get used to. People will often say that it’s a weird vibe when you go straight into playing at the BRITs, or whatever."

Do you get more nervous when you’re within spitting distance of the audience?

Chris: "Well, the truth is, for the first few albums if I looked out I’d be worried that I’d see someone who wasn’t into it, so I stopped looking at people."

So you’d just look into the distance?

Chris: "Yeah, I’d just have a vague area with a vague look. And then after our third album, 'X&Y', it wasn’t making me very happy so I thought, you know, 'We’re selling out these places, and I’m not... I’m still kind of depressed'. So for various reasons, over the last six or seven years, I really try and find people. I think it came from watching Jay-Z’s shows where at the end he’d always point people out and say, 'I see you with the sunglasses' or 'I see you in the One Direction t-shirt'. He put the lights up! And I thought, 'That’s cool, to connect.' That was in about 2009. I really do find people and consciously look at them. Just to have a connection."

Youtube video

What makes Glastonbury different to all the other festivals?

Jonny Buckland (guitar): "We just love that place so much. It’s such a musical Mecca. We’ll come back until they beg us not to. The scale, the amount of different stuff happening – not just music, all the other stuff. I think we’ll try and stay [for the whole weekend]."

Chris, you were 25 when you first headlined. Looking back, can you believe you pulled it off so young?

Chris: "Yeah, I can’t believe that. Thank goodness there wasn’t much internet then, ‘cause I’m sure there were some people who weren’t that happy about it! I love it."

There’s a stigma that’s attached to your shows now, in a way - every tour you do has to be amazing and better than the last, because the last few have been so good striking.

Chris: "This one’s gonna be fun. If you like Coldplay it’s gonna be really good. That’s my poster quote! No, my point is that it’s really exciting putting it together and planning it out."

Are you gonna be bringing back the LED lights from the last tour?

Guy Berryman (bass): "That idea stemmed from something we saw Robbie Williams do once, where he got everyone to take a picture at a gig. And when you see the footage of all those cameras going off, it's like, '****, that was really clever'. So I think we invented those wristbands as a way of doing that in a much more controlled manner. And then other people started using them, so now we’re like, 'We’ve gotta step up our game a bit!' This time, I think they’re gonna do 'other' things too."

You’re so big these days. Who do you look to for inspiration for massive shows?

Chris: "Well, Bruce Springsteen has quote which is, 'More than rich, more than famous, I just wanted to be great' [sic]. And that’s really what I think. Bigness, popularity, all that… That comes and goes, you know? What can you do but make sure what you’re doing is something you can really stand behind, or what you’re singing is something you really need?"

Read the full interview with Coldplay in this week’s NME, which is handed out free this Friday.

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/c...TI4PPooCcAS.99

Their performance at the NME Awards tomorrow will also be streamed online here: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-awards/...ds-2016-online

Meanwhile, Chris' interview with Rolling Stone has been released - you can view scans here: http://newscoldplay.tumblr.com/post/...-february-2016

Also, the Coldplay website interviewed Gustavo Dudamel - who together with Davide Rossi arranged and conducted Youth Orchestra Los Angeles at the Superbowl Halftime show - you can read that here: http://coldplay.com/interview-gustav...b50-conductor/

[zakman440]

It's the NME Awards tonight! Coldplay are this year's "Godlike Genius" recipients + they're up for Best Song. They'll also be playing a set LIVE! You can watch the awards from 8:30PM on this page: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-awards/...ds-2016-online