Coldplay : Bigger Than Jesus & The Beatles?

I worry about them being this big, because they are even shittier than U2.

As for Coldplay, I debate which would be better for them, drowning in the ocean or roasting in hot lava.

one can only hope gwyneth is the new yoko.

I was surprised the Duran Duran didn't....but that was pre-Soundscan.

Enjoy the blue moon tonight!

On the US charts, artists rarely debut in the top 10 at all, British or otherwise. This is changing somewhat nowadays with the incorporation of digital downloads. In other words, a big part of the success of "Speed of Sound" can be chalked up to iTunes sales.

ah....how does the singles chart work? does it include video play now? maybe it didn't in the early 80s...

I don't think Coldplay run that risk, as that would be a bit atypical of Chris Martin's behavior. :-)

I think I saw in passing Martin on the front of the NME saying this was going to be their last album. We live in hope.

What did he say about America? Is Liam a freedom hater?

DETAILS, PLEASE!!

Liam hates America?

The Stone Roses

Weren't as successful as they hoped in America = We don't care about America. (see: many British bands)

(mmm, I like Squire's hair. you can tell who was the artist in the group.)

Did they go straight in to the top 10 though?

I think maroon 5 sounds a lot more like Supertramp.

how many do you predict it will sell in the 1st week?

Not that much, to be perfectly honest with you. The single never really took off, did it? It was downloaded a lot, but that's it. I've only heard it on the radio twice, and I've NEVER seen the video on TV. According to Billboard, Billboard it's already sunk to #29. So I don't expect the album to be a huge 7-million-plus megasensation.

i have been silent on ILM for a few weeks as i wanted to take a break. anyways, this was too funny and this seemed to be the best thread to bump:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Fox-Host-s-War-With-Rockers-Ensues-Calls-12306760.php

Fox Host’s War With Rockers Ensues, Calls Radiohead ‘Poor Man’s Coldplay’

"Radiohead is a fine band, but they stole everything from Coldplay," Greg Gutfeld says on Fox

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Published 3:50 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Greg Gutfeld thinks he knows his music. He’s Fox News’s de facto rock critic. Last year he wrote up his favorite albums of 2016, name-checking The Avalanches and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. He even has a long-running beef with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. So he must know what he’s talking about when it comes to Radiohead, right?

On “The Greg Gutfeld Show” Tuesday, he lambasted the British rockers led by Thom Yorke as “a poor man’s Coldplay.”

“Radiohead is a fine band, but they stole everything from Coldplay,” Gutfeld said. “Radiohead is the poor man’s Coldplay.” The segment came up following a discussion about being too politically correct over Halloween costumes, and Gutfeld suggested one of his guests go as a Radiohead fan.

Recently on Gutfield’s show Katherine Timpf, debating whether or not they belonged in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ahead of this year’s nominee class including Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode and LL Cool J, said Radiohead was just “elaborate moaning and whining for ring tone sounds.” She added that she wound up dating a lot of Radiohead fans because she was attracted to people who were “depressed, malnourished and sad.”

“I wasn’t saying it bad, I was saying it was sexy,” Timpf clarified. See, she wasn’t calling all Radiohead fans miserable. She was saying miserable people all like Radiohead. It’s a chicken and egg thing, really.

This moment of mainstream attention was so exciting to individuals otherwise suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency that even Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood changed his Twitter bio to reflect that he too is “‘strange, malnourished and sad’ (fox news – *spits three times*).”

As to whether this claim against Radiohead is remotely true, let’s set aside the fact that Coldplay might just be the poor man’s Coldplay. They’re probably the third most ridiculed rock band today behind Nickelback and U2. Chris Martin was that guy dancing between Bruno Mars and Beyonce at the Super Bowl, after all. They were uncool back when “The 40-Year Old Virgin” came out. Heck, they were uncool when they launched onto the scene in the late ’90s.

Radiohead’s first album “Pablo Honey” came out in 1993, and Coldplay’s “Parachutes” arrived in 2000, when they were one of about a thousand bands to actually be labeled the next successor to Radiohead. Yorke and Co. had stopped recording stadium-sized buzz ballads like “Creep” and instead reinvented themselves as experimental, Y2K artists with “OK Computer” and “Kid A,” two albums in the running for Best Album of the Last 20 years status. Coldplay was there to fill that void of introspective pop rockers, and since then they’ve collaborated with Jay-Z, Rihanna and The Chainsmokers. One member of Radiohead meanwhile became the go-to composer for Paul Thomas Anderson.

On our count that’s Gutfeld zero. Radiohead 10.

He's either trolling (and let's face it, hardcore Radiohead fans are pretty well known for easily taking the bait) or he's an idiot. Either scenario is plausible.