Coldplay Biography

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next EP "Brothers & Sisters" was launched in the following year. The band started to be noticed as their single "Brothers and Sisters" was played by Steve Lamacq of Radio 1 while hitting the 92nd position at U.K. music charts.

This early success of Coldplay captivated Parlophone Records to provide a recording contract with the band in May 1999. As a result, "Blue Room" EP was released five months later, evoking the band to gain positive responses from music press who praised them as a band to watch in 2000, even NME Magazine included them in its January Premiere tour. Nevertheless, this particular EP ignited criticism and comparison upon the band's similarity to the major British band Radiohead. Concerning this matter, Guy Berryman wisely remarked: "The comparisons to Radiohead don't bother me. We're kind of clued up enough to understand that as a new band we're going to be compared to big stars. The easiest way for a journalist to describe a band is to compare it to somebody else. Chris and Thom Yorke can sing high and low with great strength and that's what people associate us with."

To the fans' relief, those criticisms and comparisons faded when Coldplay ...

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came up with a new single entitled "Shiver" in March 2000 for the critics gave excellent reviews toward this single. Being played through U.K top radios and MTV Europe, "Shiver" was the band's first single to reach the 35th rank at U.K. Top 40 Chart. In the anticipation of their debut album, the band released another single, "Yellow", and performed wonderfully at Glastonbury music festival. They gained great accomplishment since "Yellow" landed to the 4th rank of U.K. Singles Chart while their gig was considered as the highlight of the festival, bringing them to be one of the most promising music groups in U.K.. This achievement was followed with the launching of their first full-length album entitled "Parachutes" in July 2000. It soared right to the top position of U.K. Album Charts after several weeks of its release, then securing its place in the top 10 for 33 weeks.

Through "Parachutes", the band attained huge popularity and commercial success since the album has amazingly sold for 1.6 million copies in U.K. along with a nomination of Mercury music Prize. They afterwards expanded the album distribution to U.S. under Network Records in November 2000. "Parachutes" appeared to be well received there, ...