Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has confirmed the band will only make 12 studio albums together. The pop-rock group, comprised of vocalist Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Will Champion and bassist Guy Berryman, are to release their 10th studio album, Moon Music, later this week. Speaking on the Zane Lowe Show for Apple Music 1, Martin said: “We are only going to do 12 proper albums and that’s real – promise.
” Martin said: “Yeah, no, but it’s good. No, you don’t, because less is more. “And for some of our critics, even less would be even more.
” The singer previously said during a special BBC Radio 2 Christmas show in 2021 with presenter Jo Whiley that the band would release their last record in 2025 with plans to “only tour” after that. Martin told Lowe: “I’ll tell you why it’s really important that we have that limit. First of all, there’s only eight Harry Potters.
.. “There’s only 12-and-a-half Beatles albums.
There’s about the same Bob Marley (albums) – so, all of our heroes. “And so where we could be kind of coasting, we’re trying to improve.” Martin added: “The joy of making something, that’s funny, I was thinking about that this morning.
“That will always continue in some way, but there’s something about the Coldplay thing. “I don’t know where the songs come from, I don’t know where the ideas come from, but that’s just been coming to me for about four or five years now – that you have to finish like th.
