Coldplay is the primary band that has announced they will stop making new music after 2025. Frontman Chris Martin confirmed that their last proper studio album will be released in 2025, though the band plans to continue touring and working on collaborative projects. They intend to cap their discography at 12 albums.
Is Coldplay going to stop making music as a band in 2025?
Back in December 2021, 47-year-old Chris Martin broke the news that Coldplay were set to stop making music in 2025, but they would carry on to exist as a touring band. "Our last proper record will come out in 2025, and after that I think we will only tour," Chris told the BBC four years ago.
In part it is because the overall volume of new music (defined as the songs released in the last 18 months) being listened to is down slightly year on year, around 3%, but it's more pronounced in genres such as pop and hip-hop, where listeners are turning towards nostalgia and delving into back catalogues.
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CDs have been systematically disappearing from store shelves for a good twenty years, first replaced by MP3s and later finished off by hi-res files and streaming.
At the same time, rap's U.S. market share has slid from roughly 30 percent in 2020 to about 24 percent in 2025, according to recent reports. And with pop juggernauts like Taylor Swift flooding the Top 40 with album tracks, the space that once belonged to hip-hop has been squeezed to the edges.
2025 stands out as a perfect square year, a rare occurrence packing spiritual significance. Historically important perfect square years include 1936, 1849, 1600, and 1225. This year promises advances in medicine, space exploration, defense, and technology but also poses challenges in unregulated advancements.
THE working class of the country is all set to go on a massive countrywide general strike on July 9, 2025. Standing shoulder to shoulder with the working class will be the peasantry – both peasants and agricultural workers, who will be flooding the streets across the country in solidarity with the workers.
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