COLDPLAY announce the release of their highly anticipated tenth album ‘Moon Music’

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Coldplay has announced the release of their highly anticipated tenth album, Moon Music, produced by Max Martin today. The record will be available in stores and on streaming services on October 4, 2024.

The album’s first single, feelslikeimfallinginlove, will be released globally on Friday, June 21. The band performed the song for the first time last night during their sold-out stadium show at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna.

In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current tour—which has so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour—the band has gone to great lengths to make the physical release of Moon Music as sustainable as possible.

This will be the world’s first album released as a 140g EcoRecord LP, with each copy made from 9 recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic and provide an 85% reduction in manufacturing process CO2 emissions/kg compared to traditional 140g vinyl.

Additionally, the band have collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.

The CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD. They will be created from 90% recycled polycarbonate sourced from post-consumer waste streams. This will provide at least a 78% CO2/kg emission reduction and avoid the manufacture of more than five metric tonnes of virgin plastic.

In an effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music (both EcoRecord LP and EcoCD) will be strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord LP products will be individually numbered.

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The Notebook Edition (EcoCD and EcoRecord LP) is a casebound hardback book. It is a faithful replica of Chris Martin’s original studio notebook, featuring 28 pages of unseen notes, lyrics, and illustrations from the album’s writing and recording process. The Notebook Edition also includes additional voice notes and demos from the album’s recording sessions, providing a special insight into the music’s development.

Moon Music is Coldplay’s first album since 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, which spawned the US Number One single with BTS, My Universe, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music Of The Spheres has already accumulated more than four billion streams.

 

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