Most of the discs were given to record companies and friends only 50 copies remained for sale to the public. In 1998, the band released 500 copies of the Safety EP. Days after, this event would shape the second line-up of Keane and keep Coldplay's unaltered, thus leaving both bands as quartets. Martin, finding Rice-Oxley to be talented, asked him to be Coldplay's keyboard player but Rice-Oxley refused as his own band, Keane, was already active. During a weekend on Virginia Water in Surrey, they asked each other to play off their own songs on the piano. The band finally settled on the name 'Coldplay' which was suggested by Tim Crompton, a local student who had been using the name for his group.Д«y 1997, Martin had met then Classics student Tim Rice-Oxley. Champion had grown up playing piano, guitar, bass, and tin whistle he quickly learned the drums (despite having no previous experience). The band's line-up was completed when Will Champion joined to take up percussion duties. Coldplay have since accepted Harvey as the fifth member of the group. Martin also had recruited his longtime school friend Phil Harvey, who was studying classics at the University of Oxford, to be the band's manager. By 1997, the group, who had renamed themselves Starfish, performed gigs for local Camden promoters at small clubs. Guy Berryman, a classmate of Martin and Buckland, later joined the group. The pair spent the rest of the university year planning a band, ultimately forming a group called Pectoralz. The group have also performed at various charity projects such as Band Aid 20, Live 8, Sound Relief, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, The Secret Policeman's Ball, Sport Relief and the UK's Teenage Cancer Trust.Д¬hris Martin and Jonny Buckland first met during their orientation week at University College London (UCL) in September 1996. Coldplay have been an active supporter of various social and political causes, such as Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. In December 2009, Rolling Stone readers voted the group the fourth-best artist of the 2000s. Coldplay have sold more than 80 million records worldwide. The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, including eight Brit Awards-winning Best British Group three times-five MTV Video Music Awards and seven Grammy Awards from 25 nominations. On, they released their sixth and newest album, titled Ghost Stories, topping the iTunes Store albums charts in over 100 countries.

On 24 October 2011, they released their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, which received mixed to positive reviews, topped the charts in over 34 countries, and was the UK's best-selling rock album of 2011. The band's fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), was produced by Brian Eno and released again to largely positive reviews, earning several Grammy Award nominations and wins at the 51st Grammy Awards. Their next release, X&Y, the best-selling album worldwide in 2005, was met with mostly positive reviews upon its release, though some critics felt that it was inferior to its predecessor. The band's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), was released to critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including NME's Album of the Year. They achieved worldwide fame with the release of the single 'Yellow' in 2000, followed by their debut album released in the same year, Parachutes, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The Blue Room was their first release on a major label, after signing to Parlophone. The band renamed themselves 'Coldplay' in 1998, before recording and releasing three EPs: Safety in 1998, Brothers & Sisters as a single in 1999 and The Blue Room in the same year.

Manager Phil Harvey is often considered an unofficial fifth member. Will Champion joined as a drummer, backing vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, completing the line-up. After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish.

Top 100 Greatest Hip-hop/Rap Singles Of All TimeД¬oldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

Coldplay album list in order