25 years ago • @coldplay released ‘Shiver’ as their lead single for their debut Studio Album ‘Parachutes’
📷Tom Sheehan
🗓March 06, 2000
📈Peaked at N°35 on the UK Singles Chart
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Happy 48th Birthday to the gorgeous, mega talented chart-topping, history-making legendary Singer, Songwriter & Global Icon, the One & Only #ChrisMartin, frontman of #Coldplay, the best-selling Rock Band of the century, with over 100M records sold worldwide!👏🎂🎉🌟🐐👑💙
Chris Martin is one of the most influential British Artists of All Time and one of the best male singers of the 21st century! He founded Coldplay with Johnny Buckland in 1997, and to date, the group has won 7 Grammy Awards and 9 Brit Awards! Coldplay 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"! The latter won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the former received 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, cbecoming the category's biggest winners (tied with Arctic Monkeys and Adele). The title track, "Viva la Vida", won a Grammy Award 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!
Their next album, 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' (2008) 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 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 big commercial success reaching #1 in the UK & #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 hit singles "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 Albums 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 #EdSheeran'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, peaking at No. 1 in 16 countries, including the UK, Coldplay's 10th chart-topper, scoring 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 numerous Awards 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, 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 songs for #Embrace ("Gravity"), #Jamelia ("See It in a Boy's Eyes", #RonSexsmith, #Faultline, #theStreets, and #IanMcCulloch. He also sang a part of the vocals for the #BandAid20 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (2004). In 2005, Chris collaborated with #NellyFurtado 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 #JayZ on "Beach Chair" and with #KanyeWest on "Homecoming"! In 2014, Martin 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 #GeorgeMichael. He also co-wrote "Homesick" for #DuaLipa'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 #LinkinPark on the piano as a tribute to Linkin Park's lead singer #ChesterBennington, after his passing. Martin is a big fan of #Aha, #Oasis, #Muse, #Westlife, #GirlsAloud, #TakeThat & #ArcadeFire!
Chris is also a philanthropist and advocate for hearing loss awareness, having partnered with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. In 2005, PETA named Martin the World's Sexiest Vegetarian. On December 12, 2012, he performed 3 songs, including "Losing My Religion" with #MichaelStipe, as part of the "12/12/12 Concert" which was held as a fundraiser for Hurricane Sandy relief. On 15 November 2014, he joined #BandAid30, on the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in Western Africa after performing on the original recording in 2004! In 2015, Martin became the creative director of the charitable Global Citizen Festival, and will continue till 2030!
🎶✨ Hoy celebramos el cumpleaños de un verdadero genio musical: Chris Martin! 🎂🎸 El líder de Coldplay, con su voz inconfundible y sus letras llenas de emoción, ha conquistado escenarios y corazones alrededor del mundo. 🌎💙 ¿Cuál es tu canción favorita de Coldplay? 🚀🎶
¡Feliz cumpleaños 48 a nuestro frontman favorito, Christopher Anthony John Martin! 🎂🥳
Los Coldplayers le deseamos un gran día. ❤️🤌🏼
¡Larga vida al rey! 👑
#Coldplay#ChrisMartin
Happy Birthday Chris.🫶❤️
Unique and irreplaceable frontman of the best band in the world.
Brilliance, kindness and gentleness are the character traits of the wonderful person you are
You deserve all the love you can get.
@coldplay
Happy Birthday to our fav Chris Martin! Hope this year is full of love and happiness ❤️ Keep dancing and singing your heart out 🥰🥰 we love you 😘 #HappyBirthdayChrisMartin