At Wembley, Coldplay will break Taylor Swift’s record.
The group performed as the headliners of the Glastonbury festival earlier this year. Michael J. Fox, star of Back to the Future, and a number of other musicians, such as rapper Little Simz, Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, and Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna, joined them on stage.
The Independent dubbed the show “the spectacle of a lifetime” and The Guardian declared it would be “churlish” to miss a set full of “cartoonish good fun,” both of which gave the show five stars.
Tom Cruise, the actor, called the performance “amazing” while viewing the set from a VIP area by the Pyramid Stage.
The band also played some previews from their upcoming album, which frontman Chris Martin has suggested might be their last, during the set.
In 2021, he said to Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 2 that “our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour.”
“Maybe we will work together on some projects, but the Coldplay catalog, in a sense, ends then.”
He later took back those remarks, telling the NME that the band still had two more records to make.
“We plan to produce twelve albums. Because pouring everything into making them is a lot,” he said. “It is fantastic and I adore it, but it is also really intense.”
The only group to have headlined Glastonbury five times is Coldplay.
Thursday morning saw the opening of pre-sale tickets for Coldplay’s 2025 tour for fans who had pre-ordered through Moon Music.
