Coldplay's new single downloaded by over 600,000 in 24 hours

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 24 comments 18:01 April 30th, 2008

Over 600,000 people downloaded Coldplay’s new, free single ‘Violet Hill’ within the first 24 hours of its release, according to label EMI.

Made available from Coldplay’s official website at 12.15pm yesterday (29 Apr), the track is the first to be plucked from forthcoming longplayer Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

The album’s out on the 12th of June, while ‘Violet Hill’ gets a paid-for digital release on the 6th of May – read DrownedinSound’s take on it here, if you so desire.

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I said it elsewhere...

... but it sounds like fucking Phil Collins.

dale | 30 Apr '08, 18:55 | X | Reply

its much better than the last album

but still nothing on parachutes.

aaaaah_ow @dale | 30 Apr '08, 19:04 | X | Reply

.

i don't like it

jerobe | 30 Apr '08, 19:10 | X | Reply

isn't

Phil Collins dead?

kickacdc @Toni_Montana | 30 Apr '08, 19:57 | X | Reply

this is the sound that is trying to bit off more than it can chew.

fact.

kofiadrian @kickacdc | 30 Apr '08, 21:26 | X | Reply

If it sounded like someone fucking Phil Collins

it would actually be an improvement.

That gobshite Martin's remarks about Jay-Z being the best rapper in the world also demonstrate that the silly tosser has caught the worldwide celebrity disease for talking loudly about things you know nothing about.

Arfur @dale | 30 Apr '08, 23:39 | X | Reply

Heeey

If you buy the NME next week, you get a free copy on 7" on the cover.

McMahon x

JamesMcMahon @kofiadrian | 1 May '08, 00:19 | X | Reply

tempting...

NOT! arf.

since-last-summer @JamesMcMahon | 1 May '08, 00:29 | X | Reply

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julian_in_public | 1 May '08, 00:30 | X | Reply

ChrisWolf @DangerousSnails | 1 May '08, 11:15 | X | Reply