After Coldplay hit a particular milestone, Chris Martin stated that he was serious about the band retiring.
The pop-rock band, which played the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival in June, is gearing up to release Moon Music, their tenth studio album, on October 4.
In an Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, Martin explained that many of the artists who inspired him and his bandmates had released only a few albums throughout their careers.
The frontman went on to reveal that the band plans to retire after their 12th studio album, stating, “We are only going to make 12 proper albums, and that’s real.”
“That’s real, real?” Lowe asked.
Martin responded, “Yeah. Promise, promise.”
Although Lowe said he wanted “50 albums” from the band, Martin said, “No you don’t. You don’t, because less is more. And for some of our critics, even less would be even more. I’m joking. And I’ll tell you why: it’s really important that we have that limit.”
He added, “First of all, there are only 12, well, there are only eight Harry Potters or seven Harry Potters. There are only 12 and a half Beatles albums. There’s about the same Bob Marley, so all of our heroes.”
The frontman claimed that setting this cap would guarantee the same level of quality control as Coldplay’s earlier albums, which include Parachutes from 2000, Viva la Vida, or Death and All of His Friends from 2008, A Head Full of Dreams from 2015, and Music of the Spheres from 2021.
He disclosed that for the past four or five years, he had felt this way about the band. “It’s like, ‘You have to finish like this,’ and I trust that just like I trust the songs,” Martin said. “So if we do something together after that, creatively, beyond touring, then it’ll be something different, or it’ll be a side thing, or it’ll be a compilation of things we hadn’t finished.”
Coldplay was created in 1997 at a London university by Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion.
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