After three albums of exposing vulnerability over soft piano chords, Coldplay opts for clutter and disguise, opening and closing on shimmering notes that give "Viva la Vida" a sense of book-like ...

The verdict is in: Brit quartet Coldplay — on the cover of Spin‘s July issue — have won over fans nationwide with their excellent new record Viva La Vida, selling an unparalleled 720,000 copies and ...

Confetti paper butterflies. Giant yellow beach balls (dropped during “Yellow” — get it?). Super high-definition live video. Friday’s opening night of the last leg of Coldplay‘s Viva La Vida tour in ...

Coldplay’s 10th album Moon Music releases Friday (Oct. 4), and they’ll apparently only make two more after that. To celebrate, Chris Martin talked with Rolling Stone about some of the band’s defining ...

IN THE title track of Coldplay‘s new “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,” frontman Chris Martin admits that “people couldn’t believe what I’d become.” He’s singing from the perspective of a ...

Coldplay has denied in federal court that it copied parts of Joe Satriani’s music for its hit song, “Viva La Vida.” In a response filed in Los Angeles on Monday, attorneys for Coldplay’s band members ...

Close listeners will notice something strange about “Violet Hill,” the new Coldplay single: It isn’t a Coldplay single. That term, after all, implies certain things about the shape a song will take, ...

“No refunds,” joked Chris Martin to the 5,000 lucky lottery winners jammed into London’s Brixton Academy last night for the first proper live gig from Coldplay in more than two years. Playing in front ...

Challenge Week on The Voice did not disappoint as Girl Named Tom took on Coldplay’s 2008 mega-hit “Viva la Vida,” a departure for the mostly folk-driven sibling trio. Now one of the Top 10 finalists, ...

In 2005, Coldplay released their third album, X&Y. In many ways, it was one of those collections where a band starts to sound exactly like everyone's most basic idea of them. The subtle hints of ...

As expected, Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 with "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," which shifted a whopping 721,000 first-week U.S. copies. By Katie Hasty, Billboard, The Associated Press ...

In an era in which few acts are able to duplicate sales results from just a few years ago, Coldplay sold 721,000 copies of “Viva la Vida” (Capitol) in the week ended Sunday, coming within 16,000 of ...