When the top rock act in the UK is Coldplay…
It says a lot about the state of rock music in the United Kingdom at the moment when the bestselling rock artists of last year were named as Coldplay - not that the States has been faring much better in the quality stakes either.
The Official Charts Company has revealed that the band beat Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to the top selling album of 2011 with their fifth release ‘Mylo Xyloto’. It sold a staggering 900,000 copies within just over two months, so the band obviously relates to pop music lovers.
True rock and metal fans are happy to be in the minority when it comes to most commercial releases in any case – but we still need our artists to up their game!