The new album lands on October 4th
Coldplay has today announced the release of their highly-anticipated tenth album, Moon Music. The record will land in stores and on streaming services on October 4th.
The album’s first single, “FeelsLikeImFallingInLove,” will be released globally on Friday, June 21st. The band performed the song for the first time last night (Sun, June 16th) during their sold-out stadium show at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna.
Moon Music, which was produced by Max Martin, is available to pre-order everywhere now, with a limited number of hand-signed editions available from the official Coldplay Store.
In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current tour – which has produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour – the band has gone to great lengths to make the physical release of Moon Music as sustainable as possible.
This will be the world’s first album released as a 140-gram EcoRecord LP, with each copy made from nine recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in manufacturing process CO2 emissions/kg compared to traditional 140-gram vinyl.
Additionally, the band has collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.
The CD editions will be the world’s first released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams. This will provide at least a 78% CO2/kg emission reduction and avoids the manufacturing of more than five metric tonnes of virgin plastic.
To reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music (both EcoRecord LP and EcoCD) will be strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord LP products will be individually numbered.
Moon Music is available to pre-order now in four physical formats, all marked as First Edition, with all EcoRecord rPET LP products individually numbered Standard EcoCD, Standard EcoRecord LP, Notebook Edition EcoCD, and Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP + EcoCD.
The Notebook Edition (EcoCD and EcoRecord LP) comes as a casebound hardback book. The book is a faithful replica of Chris Martin’s original studio notebook, featuring 28 pages of unseen notes, lyrics, and illustrations from the album’s writing and recording process. The Notebook Edition also includes additional voice notes and demos from the album’s recording sessions, providing a special insight into the music’s development.
Moon Music is Coldplay’s first album since 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, which spawned the US No. 1 single with “BTS, My Universe,” and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music Of The Spheres has already accumulated more than four billion streams.
