Expanding on the hint that Coldplay are nearing the end of their recording career, frontman Chris Martin has now revealed that the band plan to close up shop in the year 2025.
UPDATE (12/24, 10:50 a.m. ET): Exclaim! made an oral history of all the times Chris Martin has claimed Coldplay are retiring over the past decade-plus.
After sharing that the UK pop outfit had only three albums left in the chamber back in October, the frontman has further dabbled in the notion of quitting music entirely, dropping the "huge revelation" in conversation with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley [via Rolling Stone].
"Well I know I can tell you: our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour," Martin said. "Maybe we'll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then."
Whiley said in a preview for the interview, which is due to air in full tomorrow (December 23): "He's always very funny and I'm never quite sure if he's joking or being deadly serious ... Towards the end of the time we spent together he shared something pretty honest and pretty intimate which was a huge revelation."
Assuming he's being serious, the latest update from Martin gives the band just three years to deliver their promised three final albums. However, as previously reported, it appears Coldplay plan to continue touring indefinitely.
"I think we will always want to play live together," Martin told UK station Absolute Radio's Andy Bush in October. "So, I think in the way that the [Rolling] Stones do, it will be so cool if we can still be touring in our late 70s. That will be wonderful, if anybody wants to come."
Coldplay released their emoji-laden latest album Music of the Spheres earlier this year. The record's "My Universe" saw Coldplay teaming up with BTS — which allowed the rockers to bring out their "inner boyband," while the K-pop sensations got to "bring out their inner old-man band," according to Martin.
UPDATE (12/24, 10:50 a.m. ET): Exclaim! made an oral history of all the times Chris Martin has claimed Coldplay are retiring over the past decade-plus.
After sharing that the UK pop outfit had only three albums left in the chamber back in October, the frontman has further dabbled in the notion of quitting music entirely, dropping the "huge revelation" in conversation with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley [via Rolling Stone].
"Well I know I can tell you: our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour," Martin said. "Maybe we'll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then."
Whiley said in a preview for the interview, which is due to air in full tomorrow (December 23): "He's always very funny and I'm never quite sure if he's joking or being deadly serious ... Towards the end of the time we spent together he shared something pretty honest and pretty intimate which was a huge revelation."
Assuming he's being serious, the latest update from Martin gives the band just three years to deliver their promised three final albums. However, as previously reported, it appears Coldplay plan to continue touring indefinitely.
"I think we will always want to play live together," Martin told UK station Absolute Radio's Andy Bush in October. "So, I think in the way that the [Rolling] Stones do, it will be so cool if we can still be touring in our late 70s. That will be wonderful, if anybody wants to come."
Coldplay released their emoji-laden latest album Music of the Spheres earlier this year. The record's "My Universe" saw Coldplay teaming up with BTS — which allowed the rockers to bring out their "inner boyband," while the K-pop sensations got to "bring out their inner old-man band," according to Martin.
