We already know that the new Coldplay album will be going by the name of Viva La Vida. Now, we also know the ten tracks that will make up the album, which is due out on June 16th.
In a blog post on their official website, Coldplay have announced the official track listing, which is as follows:
‘Life In Technicolor’
‘Cemeteries Of London’
‘Lost!’
‘42′
‘Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love’
‘Yes’
‘Viva La Vida’
‘Violet Hill’
‘Strawberry Swing’
‘Death And All His Friends’
What we’re actually meant to do with this knowledge once acquired is anyone’s guess. Without any samples being distributed, then it doesn’t actually mean anything.

The Charlatans have announced that their new album You Cross My Path will be available as a free download from the Xfm.co.uk website for two months prior to getting a full physical release.
This will the long running British band’s tenth studio album, but first to go the way of digital downloads as it’s preferred choice of consumer delivery.

The album will be completely free to download from the Xfm website from March 3rd. On May 19th, a full two and half months later, the album will get a physical release on both CD and Vinyl formats in 33 countries. To …read more

Leon Jackson has made it to the top of the charts, and thus continued the trend for X Factor winners grabbing the Christmas number one.
Leona Lewis is still sitting at number one in the album charts, making it a clean sweep for the ITV music reality television show.
Leon won The X Factor last Saturday, overcoming the odds, and the will of a huge swathe of the British public. Now, just 8 days later, his debut single is number one in the official UK single charts.
Having a Christmas number one is quite an honour in the UK, or at least …read more

X Factor 2006 winner Leona Lewis has broken another record, this time for the fastest selling British début album of all time.
She already held one record previous to this week, after her debut single ‘A Moment Like This’ was downloaded 50,000 times in the first half hour of its release last December and sold 600,000 copies in its first week.
Her new album ‘Spirit’, sold 375,000 copies in its first week on sale, beating former record holders Arctic Monkeys by 12,000. They have held the record for over a year with ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’.
Lewis …read more

The new Radiohead album has been recorded and mastered ready for release early next year, but more details than that have been hard to track down.
To give the fans some clues and to build the hype up ahead of the release, the British band have been leaving cryptic messages on their official website for the past week.

On the Hodiau Direkton part of the Dead Air Space website, visitors are treated to Radiohead hieroglyphs which contained messages such as “Yes we are still alive” and ” Blink your eyes one for yes two for no code code code”.
Well now, reportedly …read more

Last month Prince gave his brand new album ‘Planet Earth’ away with a British newspaper. To celebrate this, I held a contest where one lucky reader of Brit Music Scene could win a copy of the album.
The lucky winner was JM from that little country they call Australia, and I dispatched the album to her forthwith. She’s now had the opportunity to listen to the album and has kindly written a short review of it for us…

Prince is American, always has been, always will be, I know this, you don’t need to tell me. So why then am I reviewing his new album Planet Earth on a British Music blog? Well, although I’ll be mainly covering British bands and singers, I reserve the right to occasionally review or talk about bands from other countries, especially if something they are doing has had a big impact on the British Music Scene. That is exactly what this album has done, causing debate around the world about the free give away of it with a Sunday newspaper. So let’s …read more

We all know single sales have been dropping for a good while, and that to be Number 1 in the charts now takes a lot less effort now than 2 years ago. But it seems that album sales are dropping now too.
Album sales are down by 10% in the first half of 2007, according to the The British Phonographic Industry. That equates to 6.5 million less records sold this year than the same time last year. The industry has raked a little back by increasing digital album sales by 2 million, but that’s still quite a substantial drop.
Is this a …read more

I love Art Brut. I felt I should say that before I start the album review so there’s no thoughts of a conflict of interest. I first heard of them in 2004 when ‘Formed a band’ and ‘Modern Art’ started being played on MTV2 and Radio 1. I remember ‘Emily Kane’ being released as a single and hearing snippets of their excellent first album. And then I kind of lost track of what they were up to until I saw them support Maximo Park earlier this year and the love affair was rekindled.
I love the idea of Art Brut, which …read more