Performed one-off show for ClientEarth

Martin had earlier said that the band would not tour to promote the album until they could work out “how our tour can not only be sustainable (but) how can it be actively beneficial”, and hope that it would be entirely carbon-neutral . However, Coldplay performed a one-off show on 25 November 2019 for the charity ClientEarth at London’s Natural History Museum . The band played beneath Hope , a giant 128-year-old skeleton of a blue whale in the museum’s great hall. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 81,000 copies sold, making it the band’s eighth consecutive number-one album. It was also the third fastest-selling album of 2019, behind No.6 Collaborations Project and Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent . On 24 November 2020, Coldplay received two nominations for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards , with one of them being Album of the Year, their first nomination in the category since Viva la Vida . On 21 December 2020, “Flags” was released internationally, the song was originally included as a Japanese bonus track of Everyday Life .