On the 20th anniversary of coldplay's ‘Parachutes,’ look back at how the album was initially received.
dropped 20 years ago in the U.K. on July 10, 2000, the title was fitting – while Coldplay would go on to soar as a global act, the album's international impact was up in the air at first, withBut British audiences warmed up to Coldplay quickly, withclimbing to No. 1 on the U.K. album chart and earning a spot on the Mercury Prize shortlist. After appearing in various international charts listed in the pages of Billboard, Coldplay netted their first significant shout out in the Aug.
The lead story of his column that week, Williamson noted the band was a bit of an anomaly in the dance music-saturated U.K. music scene at the turn of the millennium."Just when it seemed that dance music had made skinny white boys playing guitar-led rock an endangered species on the British charts, along comes Coldplay," he wrote.
The column even includes a quote from pre-celebrity Chris Martin, who told Billboard the following:"We're surprised how it's all happened so quickly, but there's always been a special chemistry between us right from the beginning."would hit No. 51 on the Billboard 200, becoming a particular favorite on the West Coast . The"Yellow" single fared quite well Stateside, hitting the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching No. 2 on the Triple A Songs chart in 2001.
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