Coldplay's 'Moon Music': The Eco-Friendly Album Revolutionizing Music

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 Coldplay’s highly anticipated tenth album, Moon Music, has officially landed in stores and on streaming services. The album is available for purchase, download, and streaming here.

Moon Music, produced by Max Martin, features August’s iTunes chart-topping single, "WE PRAY," featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and TINI, as well as June’s double MTV VMAs-nominated single, "feelslikeimfallinginlove," which reached Number 1 on both the UK airplay chart and the Official Big Top 40. A third single, "All My Love," is being released alongside the album, with a music video filmed at a Las Vegas karaoke bar premiering later today.

Chris Martin recently shared a video offering insights into the album, stating: “I think what this album is about is a response to struggling with all the conflict within oneself, within myself, and also all the conflict outside, and working out what the best response is. I think what Moon Music is trying to say is that maybe love is the best response.”

Moon Music had its worldwide premiere on Monday at the Moon Saloon in Moon, Wisconsin, followed by a global listening event in cinemas on Tuesday and Wednesday.

To celebrate the release of the album, the band will perform on tomorrow night’s Saturday Night Live, followed by a special concert on Monday for Sirius XM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. They will also perform live on the TODAY Plaza for NBC’s TODAY Show on Monday.

New Formats and New Sustainability Standards

In tandem with Coldplay’s groundbreaking sustainability measures on their current world 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 is the world's first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy made from nine recycled PET plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste.

Additionally, the band has collaborated with longtime partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala, preventing it from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.

The standard CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate sourced from post-consumer waste streams.

In an effort 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 Coldplay’s first album since 2021’s Music of the Spheres, which spawned the US Number One single with BTS, "My Universe," and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music of the Spheres has accumulated more than four billion streams.