Coldplay Break Australian Attendance Record With ‘Music of the Spheres’ Tour
Coldplay have broken an attendance record during the Australian leg of the Music Of The Spheres tour.
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The band – who have recently released their tenth album, Moon Music – played to a record breaking number of fans during their four-night stint at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium from 30 October to 3 November.
“Coldplay have officially broken our all-time largest attendance record for a band at Marvel Stadium, with 227k people attending across the four Music of The Spheres World Tour shows held at the Stadium,” the venue wrote on Instagram.
The current tour is Coldplay’s first in Australia since 2016, though they performed two shows in Perth in 2023 after reaching an agreement with the state’s tourism board. Coldplay will finish their Australian tour with four shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium this week.
Coldplay’s international Music of the Spheres world tour has been on since March 2022 and is scheduled to run till September 2025 with two shows in Hull and 10 in London’s Wembley Stadium.
The band announced that 10% of the band’s proceeds from ticket sales of the upcoming UK shows would be donated to the Music Venue Trust, a charitable organisation that supports UK grassroots music venues and emerging artists.
Coldplay’s latest album, Moon Music, features the recent singles We Pray and feelslikeimfallinginlove. Each vinyl copy of the album – produced by Max Martin – is made out of nine recycled PET-plastic bottles that have been recovered from waste, which will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to traditional 140g vinyl.
Likewise, CD editions of the record are the first in the world to be released on ‘EcoCD’, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
There is also a limited ‘Notebook Edition’ of the record, which comes as a casebound hardback book, a replica of Chris Martin’s original studio notebook. It contains 28 pages of notes, lyrics and illustrations from the album’s creative process.