Chris Martin reveals Coldplay will stop making albums very soon

Chris Martin has dropped a surprise revelation in a new interview, confirming plans for Coldplay to cease making albums soon.

Chris Martin has some bad news for Coldplay fans: The band has plans to stop releasing albums.

Martin, 47, made the revelation during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, 51, a portion of which first dropped Monday on People.

Coldplay, which is made up of Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion, Phil Harvey and Martin, will release their tenth album, Moon Music, on October 4.

“We are only going to do 12 proper albums, and that’s real,” Martin told Lowe, who didn’t like the idea, saying he wants Coldplay to put out “50 albums.”

“You don’t, because less is more,” the Fix You singer pushed back. “And for some of our critics, even less would be even more.”

“It’s really important that we have that limit,” he added.

He pointed to the Harry Potter books (of which there are only 7) and the musical output of artists he admires.

“There’s only 12 and a half Beatles albums. There’s about the same Bob Marley, so all of our heroes,” he said. “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.”

Chris Martin made the revelation to Zane Lowe.

Marin explained that the band is focused on “trying to improve” rather than “coasting.” And though Coldplay might not be churning out new music after their twelfth album, that doesn’t mean Martin will stop creating fresh tunes.

“That will always continue in some way, but there’s something about the Coldplay thing,” he shared. “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. Like, ‘You have to finish like this,’ and I trust that just like I trust the songs.”

Speaking to what might come after album No. 12, he said, “So if we do something together after that creatively beyond touring, then it’ll be something different, or it’ll be a side thing, or it’ll be a compilation of things we hadn’t finished.”

Coldplay first formed in 1997. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Beyond the quality control concerns of making a “great” album, Martin pointed out the logistic problems that present themselves as time passes.

“It’s such a lot of wrangling of people,” he explained, “And I want to give the others some of their life for themselves.”

“I don’t want to be, when we’re 60, be like, ‘Will, we need you. Come on! We can do better than this!’”

Despite the band’s self-stamped expiration date, Martin said Coldplay has more joy “than ever.”

The reasons? “Because of getting older, because of Covid, because of everything going on in the world, because of how lucky we know we are, because of the places we get to go, because of the optimism that it gives us to see all different kinds of people gathering together, because of songs that arrive from nowhere, because we go at a slower pace.”

He added, “All these things mean that we love it.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission