Parachutes
by Coldplay

Parachutes by Coldplay
Year: 2000
Release date: 2000-07-10
Overall rank: 213th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 1,731 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 2000 (5th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 2000s (37th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (213th)

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Coldplay bestography

Parachutes is ranked 2nd best out of 21 albums by Coldplay on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Coldplay is A Rush Of Blood To The Head which is ranked number 104 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,731.

Coldplay album bestography « Higher ranked (104th)
A Rush Of Blood To The Head
This album (213th)
Parachutes
Lower ranked (346th) »
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Parachutes track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Parachutes rankings

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Overall rank: 213th | 2000s rank: 37th | 2000 rank: 5th

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Parachutes ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 1,731 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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80/100
From 02/16/2026 09:13 | #313161
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2000 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was The Hour Of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy
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75/100
From 08/21/2025 22:39 | #310601
Easily their best album. Nice melancholy Dream-Pop right through
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90/100
From 07/08/2025 22:52 | #309996
One of the best albums of the 00’s along with a Rush of Blood to the Head. Sadly it went downhill for Coldplay after X&Y (which was also pretty good) because it seems they sold out :(
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80/100
From 10/05/2024 23:37 | #305546
Only bettered by A Rush of Blood to the Head in my opinion... A fantastic album nevertheless...
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95/100
From 09/03/2024 15:59 | #305124
Gran debut.
Se notan las influencias de Radiohead y Jeff Buckley aquí, especialmente de los álbumes The Bends y Grace pero con un enfoque más dentro del Pop-Rock. De cualquier modo, "Parachutes" sigue siendo muy agradable, melancólico y tiene excelentes canciones como; Don't Panic, Sparks, Yellow y Trouble.

Probablemente Parachutes sea uno de los álbumes más icónicos y representativos del Pop-Rock de los 2000s y creo que si a te gusta escuchar este tipo de rock (melancólico, melódico, suave) lo disfrutarás mucho.


Great debut.
You can notice the influences of Radiohead and Jeff Buckley here, especially from the albums The Bends and Grace but with a focus more on Pop-Rock. Anyway, "Parachutes" is still very pleasant, melancholic and has excellent songs like; Don't Panic, Sparks, Yellow and Trouble.

Parachutes is probably one of the most iconic and representative albums of Pop-Rock of the 2000s and I think that if you like listening to this type of rock (melancholic, melodic, soft) you will enjoy it a lot.
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65/100
From 01/01/2022 18:39 | #278347
Beautiful album, not quite on the level of A Rush Of Blood To The Head but still very strong. My highlights are Don't Panic, Spies and Shiver. Trouble and Yellow are also nice though overplayed. Weakest tracks are We Never Change and Everything's Not Lost.
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85/100
From 06/18/2021 14:44 | #270797
De uma doçura maravilhosa!
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From 03/04/2021 07:41 | #266939
La douceur de ce premier album, de jolies mélodies, la découverte d'un groupe à la tendre mélancolie.
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80/100
From 12/25/2020 14:30 | #263186
Sincere, emotional, direct, simple and beautiful. Their best album.
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100/100
From 07/15/2020 05:52 | #255611
Beautiful album. A Rush of Blood to the Head is an improvement, but this is still well worth a listen.
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