Coldplay’s tenth album, Moon Music, has been released in stores and streaming services. Produced by Max Martin, the album features the chart-topping single WE PRAY, which reached number one on the UK’s airplay chart and the Official Big Top 40. The album also includes the double MTV VMAs-nominated single That Feels Like Falling in Love. A third single, All My Love, has also been released, with a video premiering later today. Moon Music premiered at the Moon Saloon in Moon, Wisconsin, followed by a worldwide listening event in cinemas.
Chris Martin recently posted a video offering some insight into the album, saying: “I think what this album is about is a response to struggling with all the conflict within oneself, within myself, and also all the conflict outside, and working out what the best response is. And I think Moon Music is trying to say that maybe love is the best response.”
The band will celebrate the album’s release with a performance on tomorrow night’s Saturday Night Live, followed by a special concert on Monday for Sirius XM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. On Monday, They will perform live on the TODAY Plaza for NBC’s TODAY Show.
In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current world tour – which has 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 is the world’s first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy made from 9 recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste.
Additionally, the band has collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition 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 standard CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
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.
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 accumulated more than four billion streams.
