Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.
@MarioNawfal As if the Superbowl performances are not exactly the same...made for the camera. And this video is severely manipulated with the audio being cut down in the stadium footage. Anything for the engagement... 🤡
here’s the english translation. I’ve made a few small adjustments to help it flow better, not to mention it also featured Dudamel, a Venezuelan, along with musicians from Iran and Iraq, there’s so much more to this story 🖤
@oceansunrise_80 I guess "love" is only cool if you're a hit artist coming from a "minority" group and you're "breaking the system" . "How revolutionary!"
Which shows the duality of criteria and hipocrisy with which people live their lives.
@MarinaPurkiss Think the other way around: it's not from the country... It's FOR that country. Or the president... Or everyone. Maybe they are the ones who need to get that message more than anyone else.
ELE É O MELHOR! 🩵🎸
O fã Jack Banting encontrou Chris Martin em uma loja de instrumentos. Além de ter a oportunidade de conversar com seu ídolo, Jack recebeu a guitarra dos seus sonhos de presente do vocalista.
Happy 49th Birthday to the gorgeous, mega talented chart-topping, history-making, Grammy-winning legendary Singer, Songwriter, philanthropist and Global Icon, the One & Only #ChrisMartin, frontman of #Coldplay, the best-selling Rock Band of the century!👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑💜💙
Chris Martin is a real Superstar, and one of the most influential musicians of the 21st century. As the lead vocalist, pianist, and co-founder of Coldplay, he has been key to the band's success, selling over 160 million records worldwide! His contributions have earned the band 7 Grammy Awards and 9 Brit Awards, and his iconic hits like "Yellow," "Clocks," "Viva la Vida," "Paradise" & "Adventure of A Lifetime" have defined generations of alternative rock and pop. Recognized as one of the best male singers of the era and a key figure in British music, Chris has also excelled through high-profile collaborations and sustained global chart dominance across multiple albums!
Chris founded Coldplay with Johnny Buckland back in 1997, and to date, the group has released 10 hugely successful studio albums including 'Parachutes', 'A Rush of Blood to the Head', 'X&Y', 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends', 'Mylo Xyloto', 'Ghost Stories', 'A Head Full of Dreams', 'Everyday Life', 'Music of the Spheres' and 'Moon Music'. Chris first found global fame with the group's debut studio album 'Parachutes' (2000) which spawned the global smash hit "Yellow"! The Album was a No. 1 hit in the UK and has been certified 9× Platinum. In the U.S., it reached #51 on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum. It won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002, the British Album of the Year award at the 2001 Brit Awards, and many other accolades. 'Parachutes' is the 22nd-best-selling album of the 21st century in the UK. As of 2020, it has sold over 13 million copies worldwide!
Coldplay's 2nd album, 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' (2002) debuted at #1 in the UK, becoming the 8th best-selling album of the 21st century in the country, and has been BRITcertified 10× Platinum for 3 million units, selling over 20 million copies worldwide. The album spawned the global smash hit singles "The Scientist" & "Clocks" which won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. "The Scientist" won 3 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2003, they were named Songwriters of the Year by the Ivor Novello Awards!
Their 3rd studio album 'X&Y' hit #1 in 32 countries, including the UK where it had the 3rd-highest sales week in history at the time, and the U.S. where it became Coldplay's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200! It was the best-selling album of 2005, earning Coldplay their 3rd Brit Award for British Album of the Year, becoming the category's biggest winners tying Arctic Monkeys and Adele. The title track, "Viva la Vida", won 2 Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The album has sold over 13 million units globally!
'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' (2008) followed and was a huge critical and commercial success, spawning the hit single "Viva la Vida", the band's first No. 1 song in both the US and the UK! It won Best Rock Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards and was the best-selling album of 2008. By 2011, it had sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
The group's 5th hugely successful studio album, 'Mylo Xyloto', went to #1 in 34 countries, spawning the mega hits "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"! It received 3 nominations at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012! 'Mylo Xyloto' was Coldplay's 3rd No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, selling 447,000 units in its first week of sales, and was their 5th UK No. 1, becoming the best-selling UK rock album of 2011 (908,000 copies) and selling 14M globally! They also received a Brit Award for Best Live Act with the Mylo Xyloto Tour.
Coldlay's 6th album 'Ghost Stories' (2014) was also a huge success, spawning the hit singles "Magic", “Midnight”, "A Sky Full of Stars", "True Love" & "Ink" and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Grammy Awards, winning Top Rock Album at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. It hit #1 in the UK & US and went to No. 1 in 24 countries!
Their 7th studio album 'A Head Full of Dreams' (2015) was also a huge commercial success reaching #1 in the UK and #2 in the US, Australia, Canada, and Italy, where it was held off the top spot by Adele's '25'! It was the 8th best-selling album of 2015 & 9th best-selling album of 2016, selling over 4.5 million worldwide, powered by the huge global hits "Adventure of a Lifetime", "Hymn for the Weekend", "Up&Up" and "Everglow".
Coldplay's 8th studio album 'Everyday Life' (2019) earned the band their 8th consecutive No 1 album in the UK and 7th top-ten album in the US. It spawned the hit singles "Orphans", "Arabesque", "Everyday Life" & "Champion of the World" and received 2 nominations at the 63rd Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, marking the band's 2nd nomination for AOTY!
Their 9th studio album 'Music of the Spheres' (2021) debuted at No. 1 in the UK, becoming the first album since Ed Sheeran's 'No.6 Collaborations Project' (2019) to sell over 100,000 in its first week, and went to #1 in 13 countries! It spawned the hit singles "Higher Power" & "My Universe" with BTS, both nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammy Awards! "My Universe" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with Coldplay becoming the 1st British group in history to achieve the feat, and broke the Guinness World Record for highest British track debut on the Hot 100, earning Coldplay their first wins at the Circle Chart Music Awards, Melon Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards Japan!
Coldplay's 10th studio album 'Moon Music' (2024) was also a huge commercial success, and served as the 2nd part of their Music of the Spheres project, the first being From Earth with Love (2021). It spawned the hit singles "Feelslikeimfallinginlove", "All My Love" and the iconic hit "We Pray" featuring English rapper Little Simz, Nigerian singer Burna Boy, Palestinian-Chilean musician Elyanna and Argentine singer Tini. The Album peaked at No. 1 in 16 countries, including the UK, Coldplay's 10th chart-topper, and scored the highest opening-week sales of the 2020s by a group (236,796 units)! It also topped the Billboard 200 with 120,000 units sold, marking the first time since 2016 that a British band went to No. 1 in the UK & US simultaneously!
Coldplay have won 520 Awards out of 1,064 nominations including 9 BRIT awards, 7 Grammy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 9 Billboard Awards, 7 MTV Video Music Awards, 8 MTV Europe Music Awards, 4 World Music Awards including World's Best-selling Recording-Act in 2008, 4 iHeartRadio Music Awards, 7 NME Awards, 6 NRJ Awards, 3 Japan Gold Disc Awards, 3 Juno Awards, 3 Ivor Novello Awards, 3 Swiss Music Awards & 18 Gaffa Awards! In 2016, Coldplay were honoured with a Godlike Genius Award at the NME Awards, which recognised "careers of music icons who have been pioneers in the industry". That same year they became the most awarded and nominated band of all time at the Brit Awards, surpassing Take That!
Chris is also an amazing songwriter, and has written or co-written several global hits and collabs. In 2005, Chris collaborated with Nelly Furtado on "All Good Things (Come to an End)", for her 2006 album, 'Loose'. He also performed on REM's "Nightswimming" with Michael Stipe during their Austin City Limits performance in 2005, as a part of the Twisted Logic Tour. Martin went on to call "Nightswimming" "the greatest song ever written". He also collaborated with Jay Z on "Beach Chair" and Kanye West on "Homecoming"! In 2014, he inducted PeterGabriel into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his solo career, and performed live with him. He also collaborated with Avicii on 2 tracks from 'Stories; "Heaven" & "True Believer"! In 2017, Chris performed " A Different Corner" at the Brit Awards in a tribute to George Michael. He also co-wrote "Homesick" for Dua Lipa's self-titled debut album (2017). In 2019, he was featured on Avicii's posthumous album 'Tim'. The song "Heaven" which features vocals by Chris, was written by him & Avicii before his death. In August 2017, Chris performed "Crawling" by Linkin Park on the piano as a tribute to Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington, after his passing. Chris was inspired by Travis and U2, and is a big fan of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Aha, Oasis, Muse, R.E.M., Westlife, Depeche Mode, Take That, Morrisey & Arcade Fire! In 2014, he inducted Peter Gabriel into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his solo career. More recently, Chris wrote Jin from BTS's 2022 solo debut single "The Astronaut", and performed on it with Coldplay, creating an uplifting rock track about love and farewell, tied to Jin's military service. This built on Coldplay's earlier 2021 supergroup hit "My Universe" with all of BTS. Chris's most recent songwriting contribution was for "GO", the lead single from BLACKPINK's new EP 'Deadline'. The track samples Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" in the bridge, tying into Martin's involvement.
Chris is also a philanthropist and committed to global causes, humanitarian aid and environmental issues. In 2015, he pledged to curate benefit shows for the Global Citizen Festival till 2030, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals to combat poverty and climate change! He has curated and headlined numerous events worldwide, including recent ones in 2025. Influenced by his mother's early lessons, Chris personally donates a significant portion of his income, to various charities, while Coldplay contributes 10% of profits annually to causes like fair trade via Oxfam campaigns he supported with trips to Ghana and Haiti, refugee rescue, Amnesty International, and disaster relief efforts like Hurricane Sandy and Ebola responses. His work extends to local initiatives, including the 2025 naming of Martin House, a care facility for young people with vision impairment in his hometown of Exeter. Chris constantly uses his platform to raise awareness for global poverty, migration, LGBTQ+ and hearing loss.
The way Coldplay gave a beautiful tribute to all previous Super Bowl Halftime show performers becoming the most heartwarming show the Super Bowl has ever had
So Bad Bunny "replicated" (at his own merits) Coldplay's super bowl idea of love and union, going to the pitch, even bringing other artists...
But now it's cool. 🙄