They’ve been talking about it for over a year, but the wait is finally over. On December 1st, nobody’s favourite band Coldplay will release their much hyped Christmas single ‘Christmas Lights’.
The band have announced on their website that the song is “mid-tempo” and “in the key of G”. Releasing information like that is sure to lead to excited trouser wetting all over the globe. Irresponsible, Chris.
If the excitement is too much for you and holding off until next wednesday simply isn’t an option, at the top of this post you will find a youtube video. It has been taken from Coldplay’s appearance on 60 minutes in 2009, when “World’s most punchable face” contestant Chris Martin, whilst showing off started singing a new song that seems to fit the above description fairly accurately. At the end of the video you’ll hear him boast “that one’s going to be good”.
Yes, 2009, that’s really how long hype has existed about this song. What are the chances it will be a let down, even to the inexplicable millions of Coldplay fans?
Those of you not lucky [Ha ha] enough to live in the UK may have missed this Easter Monday’s broadcast of The People’s Artist Chart on the Beeb. Based on plays reported to Phonographic Performance Limited, AKA PPL, a body that licenses broadcast and other performances of tracks that are signed up to its catalogue (and charges mysteriously priced licensing fees to venues), the chart detailed the artists that had most plays in the decade 2000-2009. Here they are:
1. Madonna
2. The Beatles
3. Robbie Williams
4. Queen
5. Take That
6. Sugababes
7. Elton John
8. Elvis Presley
9. Abba
10. Coldplay
Incredible to see Elvis still topping the play charts after almost 40 years since his death, and that the pop bands of yesteryear are still more active on the airwaves than current acts. Does this list really define the decade? Listen to the programme via the BBC iPlayer here, and make your own mind up.
It has been reported that British pop duo, The Ting Tings have signed with Jay-Z and his record label Roc Nation.
What’s funny is that they report this as the duo’s big chance to make it big in America by saying things such as “Jay can make them one of the biggest British bands in America.” The next Coldplay? No, thanks.
Im very interested to hear a Roc Nation influences album, will that mean I will be hearing a lot more hard baselines in their songs.
Apart from The Ting Tings Jay-Z also signed another British pop group, the Sugababes. No Jay, why the hell did you sign a band in complete decline even in their native country?
Over at MusicAlly they have put together a great list of the top 20 bands on Facebook according to their popularity. 20 most popular music artist fan pages from the chart though, and they are (with number of fans):
1. Rihanna (1.52 million)
2. Coldplay (1.49 million)
3. Lil Wayne (1.34 million)
4. Linkin Park (1.33 million)
5. Chris Brown (1.3 million)
6. Metallica (1.22 million)
7. Pink Floyd (1.16 million)
8. Bob Marley (1.13 million)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers (1.12 million)
10. Justin Timberlake (1.05 million)
11. AC/DC (997,000)
12. Daft Punk (912,000)
13. Beyonce (906,000)
14. Queen (900,000)
15. Evanescence (873,000)
16. Jonas Brothers (843,000)
17. Radiohead (793,000)
18. Kanye West (792,000)
19. Katy Perry (791,000)
20. Akon (753,000)
