Last year it was Taylor Swift

Year before it was Ed Shereen

This lifestyle is worse than being an undercover spy IMHO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48472826)

If you paid a normal person 10 million dollars to sing Clocks and Yellow every day for a year at the end wouldn't you want to never do it ever again? And yet this guy just eats it up...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48472863)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48472839)

and i havent been to nroth korea cause faggot trump banned it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48472932)

Obviously the other major factor is that their music is very listenable and inoffensive to people of all ages, but its otherwise unclear why they're that much bigger than a band like "Five for Fighting" and i'd argue that a band like The Barenaked Ladies is actually capable of a lot more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48473450)

The chronological summary of Coldplay’s notable charting singles:

1. “Shiver” (March 2000): Peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart, marking Coldplay’s first entry into the Top 40.

2. “Yellow” (June 2000): Reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 48 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s breakthrough hit.

3. “Trouble” (October 2000): Achieved a peak position of number 10 in the UK.

4. “In My Place” (August 2002): Reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

5. “The Scientist” (November 2002): Peaked at number 10 in the UK and number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

6. “Clocks” (February 2003): Reached number 9 in the UK and number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

7. “Speed of Sound” (May 2005): Peaked at number 2 in the UK and number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

8. “Fix You” (September 2005): Reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

9. “Talk” (December 2005): Achieved a peak position of number 10 in the UK.

10. “Viva la Vida” (May 2008): Became Coldplay’s first number-one single on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.

11. “Paradise” (September 2011): Reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

12. “A Sky Full of Stars” (May 2014): Peaked at number 9 in the UK and number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

13. “Adventure of a Lifetime” (November 2015): Reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.

14. “Hymn for the Weekend” (January 2016): Peaked at number 6 in the UK.

15. “Something Just Like This” (February 2017): A collaboration with The Chainsmokers, it reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

16. “My Universe” (September 2021): A collaboration with BTS, it debuted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and became their second number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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Coldplay is one of those bands that made palatable quasi rock pop music that you can put on for someone of any age and they're likely to not hate it. Meanwhile if you put on Radiohead 10 people will say it's the greatest ever while most people won't like it. So I think we're simply living in an era where there's almost no crossover appeal unless you make songs for the masses and do it at a high level for a very long time.

I think perhaps the most interesting part is that Chris Martin despite dating Gwynnie has left virtually no cultural impact on society. I don't know anything about him nor anyone else who does. He's just sort of a vague bland white guy who sings good. Maybe that is the hero America needs. A guy who stands for nothing. Meanwhile we know everything about every Beatle and there are 4 million books on each one. But in the digital age it's better that it just be some faceless entity promoting the material that ends up on Pandora while you're browsing for products at the store. Peak soullessness.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652549&forum_id=2#48474471)