After the disappointing tally of award wins at the recent 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Liverpool, where only Leona Lewis, Paul McCartney, and Rick Astley won, it’s nice to be able to report how British artists fared better at the World Music Awards in Monaco over the weekend.
Coldplay were named as ‘Bestselling Act of […]
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The annual Q Awards was held in London on Tuesday, and Coldplay were the ultimate winners on the day, picking up two massive awards. They won ‘Best Album’ for Viva La Vida, and ‘Best Act In The World Today’.
Duffy picked up an award for ‘Breakthrough Artist’, while ‘Best New Act’ went to The Last Shadow […]
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A couple of weeks ago we reported on the rumours that Coldplay were preparing to throw out their usual strategy of keeping the fans waiting while they endlessly tinker on making the perfect album, and preparing material for a new album in 2009 - just a year after Viva La Vida was released.
The story has […]
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The new Coldplay album, Viva La Vida, has only been out for around two months, but already there is talk of the next Coldplay album. The band reportedly have most of the album already in the bag and could release it next year as a surprise rush-release.
The Sun are reporting that most of the songs […]
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Here in the UK, the summer is at its peak, which as anyone who has ever visited Britain would know means lots of rain with the occasional sunny spell in between. But regardless of the weather outside, music has the ability to lift our spirits and at least make us feel like it’s fine outside.
Some […]
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Coldplay have managed to reach number one in the American singles chart with Viva La Vida, the title track from their new album. This is despite claims of plagiarism from a US band called Creaky Boards and despite, or maybe because of criticism from album producer Brian Eno.
The song was sitting at number two last […]
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Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida isn’t officially released until June 12th, but fans desperate to hear it in full before then, but not daring enough to download it illegally and risk getting caught, can now listen to the album on the band’s MySpace page.
The album is available now, and for a week running up […]
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When Coldplay decided to let everyone know they were back by releasing the first single, Violet Hill, from new album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, as a free download, they must have known it would be huge. But I wonder if they knew quite how huge it would be, and in […]
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Coldplay have announced that they will be playing two free concerts to promote forthcoming fourth studio album, Viva La Vida. The shows will take place at London’s Brixton Academy on June 16th and at New York Madison Square Garden on June 23rd.
The shows will be free, with fans being able to win tickets through various […]
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Some of the bloggers here on the b5 music channel decided to record our Soundtrack For A Day yesterday. This could take different forms, be it all the songs you listened to on that day, a selection from certain moments, or a particular album.
I decided to stick my media player on random and note down […]
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