Coldplay 
The best album credited to Coldplay is A Rush Of Blood To The Head which is ranked number 99 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 11,750.
Coldplay is ranked number 57 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 30,193.
Coldplay official website: http://www.coldplay.com
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Coldplay best albums
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| ! | 08/07/2026 11:23 |  katerpillar | 32 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2026 00:14 |  luigybetis | 78 | 95/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2026 09:52 |  Kaiser | 247 | 71/100 |
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This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.8/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 21.7.
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Message to Mr. Martin: Please make music that is similar to your four first albums, preferably the second. That is where you belong. Cut the electronic bs.
makerofbuckets TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/28/2015 01:20 | #137992
I feel like the only thing I comment on is the average rating or placement of something, sadly. Don't really want to.
Coldplay is the band that got me into music, but holy god are they rated too high. Better than The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Queen, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Black Sabbath, Rush, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash? Sorry, I love their first 2 LPs, but they're not anywhere near as good as some of those other artists.
Coldplay knows a good tune and their success has last for quite some time now.
It is all deserved. Every album released is at it's worst pleasant (Most of XY) and at it's best--chills inducing (Fix You, Death and All His Friends)
They are the closest band I have seen at being successful in their attempt at being everything to everyone. They own their mass appeal and attempt to make and write songs universally relatable.
It can come across as dis-ingenious and too private not letting the listeners into their personal highs and lows.
Coldplay is wise in knowing they are big in this world but the world is still bigger than them. Their music communicates this.
England currently has a 3 headed musical government.
Radiohead is King
Muse is the muscle--the military
Coldplay is the Diplomat---It's All About the Togetherness
Daydreamer 01/22/2017 00:32 | #183792
People tend to forget how good these guys were. Sure it's cool to hate them now because they have sold out a bit, but those first couple of album were among the best of the 00's.
40footwolf 03/02/2011 03:38 | #18848
A band for people who put on a Radiohead album and think to themselves, "Man, I really wish this was easier to ignore".
