It got released on June 3rd 2011.
Then on May 31st 2011, Coldplay announced that “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” was going to be the first single off the new album.
A few months down the line, talking to HitQuarters, Parlophone president Miles Leonard said the band were still in the studio working on the album and expected the final version to come out “come autumn time”.
In a 2011 interview with Coldplay on the 13th of January, they announced that not one, but two brand new songs were going to make an appearance on their fifth album, “Princess of China” & “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall”.
The band were at it again in mid-2011, recording a new album. When Martin and Champion got interviewed by the BBC they revealed that the album was all about love, addiction, OCD, escaping, and working for someone you don’t get on with. As for when it was coming out, they…
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Over the summer of 2011, the band gave some of the new songs a run out at festivals – ” Charlie Brown “, ” Hurts Like Heaven “, ” Us Against the World “, ” Princess of China ” and ” Major Minus “
Then four months later, in December, “Christmas Lights” was released.
Fast forward to August 2010, and Coldplay extended their publishing deal with Universal. Not a bad move on their part.
Not long after that, Rolling Stone readers voted the band as the fourth-best musicians of the 2000s – a pretty impressive feat.
In October of 2009, Coldplay won Song of the Year for “Viva la Vida” over at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Awards in London.