Chris Martin has confirmed that Coldplay will only make 12 studio albums together.
This comes as the band look set to release their 10th studio album, ‘Moon Music’, later this week.
Chris Martin made these comments in a recent appearance on the Zane Lowe Show for Apple Music 1.
“We are only going to do 12 proper albums and that’s real – promise”, the Coldplay frontman said.
This prompted Lowe to reply with, “I don’t want you to promise that. I want 50 albums”.
“Yeah, no, but it’s good. No, you don’t, because less is more”, Martin responded. “And for some of our critics, even less would be even more”.
Martin On “having the limit”
Elsewhere, Chris Martin also stated that feels as far as how as many albums is enough is concerned, twelve is the magic number.
“I’ll tell you why it’s really important that we have that limit. First of all, there’s only eight Harry Potters…”, he said. “There’s only 12-and-a-half Beatles albums. There’s about the same Bob Marley (albums) – so, all of our heroes”.
Martin continued: “And also, having that limit means that the quality control is so high right now, and for a song to make it, it’s almost impossible, which is great”.
“And so where we could be kind of coasting, we’re trying to improve”.
“The joy of making something, that’s funny, I was thinking about that this morning”, he added. “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 this. And I trust that, just like I trust the songs.
“So if we do something together after that, creatively, beyond touring, then it will be something different, or it’ll be a side thing, or it’ll be a compilation of things we hadn’t finished”.
“And also, to make an album great as a band, it’s such a lot of wrangling of people, and I want to give the others some of their life for themselves”.
Martin’s comments also come after Coldplay were named the most play British band in the 21st century last week. More on this here.
