Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - NOVEMBER 10: Chris Martin of Coldplay ...

In 2005, Coldplay released their third album, X&Y. In many ways, it was one of those collections where a band starts to sound exactly like everyone's most basic idea of them. The subtle hints of ...

We performed “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay as a cello duet in public — completely live and unplanned. The energy of the song, ...

I had just started playing Viva la Vida on a public piano when a famous cellist joined in. What followed was an unexpected ...

Coldplay changed my world when I first heard their Viva la Vida lyrics. It all started in 1996 when these British college friends formed a band. Chris Martin’s voice hits differently – it’s raw and ...

In Spanish, “Viva La Vida” means “Long Live Life” and is tied to the Delacroix-like painting portraying the revolutionaries as heroes there are underlying themes of life and death, regrets, and ...

Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' has a reference to The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ that’s a little obscure. A classic rock icon produced the album. Martin revealed the title of ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Coldplay have ...

After three albums of exposing vulnerability over soft piano chords, Coldplay opts for clutter and disguise, opening and closing on shimmering notes that give "Viva la Vida" a sense of book-like ...