Coldplay’s Glastonbury 2024 headline slot will come ahead of their final album next year

nme.com:

Coldplay announced to headline Glastonbury 2024, fans are uncertain as to the band’s future after Chris Martin previously revealed that the band would stop making music in 2025.The pop icons were announced as headliners for this year’s instalment of Glastonbury earlier this morning (March 14), alongside SZA, Dua Lipa and Shania Twain.

However, following previous comments by the frontman, fans are questioning what the slot may mean for the band’s future.It comes as, back in 2021, Martin revealed that Coldplay were coming to the end of their time writing new material, and had plans to stop writing music as a band by 2025.“Well I know I can tell you: our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour,” Martin said during an interview with Jo Wiley. “Maybe we’ll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then.”The singer-songwriter shared a similar sentiment with NME too, when he said that he discussed how “intense” it can be to keep releasing new material.“We’re going to make 12 albums.

Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them. I love it and it’s amazing, but it’s very intense too,” he said. “I feel like because I know that challenge is finite, making this music doesn’t feel difficult, it feels like, ‘This is what we’re supposed to be doing’.”He added: “I don’t think that’s what we’ll do.