Company Press Release:
Coldplay sings “Christmas Lights” for Nokia’s Ovi Music users
‘Christmas lights’, new single from the Coldplay now available exclusively at Ovi Music Store
New Delhi, 23rd December, 2010: To enrich the festive season with charming Christmas music, Nokia has brought “Christmas Lights”, a chart-topping new single from Coldplay for its users. The digital edition of the song entitled “Christmas Lights” is available exclusively only on Nokia’s Ovi Music Store in India.
With Grammy, Brit, Q, Top Ivor Novello, World Music and other numerous awards in their kitty, Coldplay is the largest selling, most popular and sought after rock band of recent years with 4 successive hit albums to their credit. Their new single “Christmas Lights”, available only as a digital release is all set to cheer-up the festive season for its fans. Nokia Ovi Music users are the only ones to have this exclusive opportunity to download the digital edition of ‘Christmas lights’’. The track will not be released on any physical format and is not deployed on any other mobile platform.
Speaking about the exclusive offer, Mr. Jasmeet Gandhi, Head Services Marketing, Nokia India said, “With our commitment to deliver latest and versatile content to consumers, we present “Christmas Lights” - a masterpiece of contemporary music from Coldplay. Nokia is delighted to offer Ovi Music Store users a great opportunity to be the first ones to download Coldplay’s latest single “Christmas lights’ for free from the Ovi Music Store.”
About Coldplay
Formed in 1997, Coldplay – comprised of Guy Berryman (bass), Jonny Buckland (lead guitar), Will Champion (drums), and Chris Martin (vocals, guitar, and keyboards) – released two EPs, The Safety and Brothers and Sisters, before signing with Parlophone in 1999. Three additional EPs (The Blue Room, Shiver and Yellow) followed before their landmark debut album, Parachutes, which was released in 2000. With the exquisite opening bars of “Yellow,” Coldplay claimed a legion of fans worldwide and, with each successive album; the band has broken new ground both artistically and commercially. A Rush of Blood to the Head followed in 2002, debuting at #1 in 12 countries. Coldplay completed a lengthy, sold-out world tour in 2003 and released Live 2003, a DVD/CD set capturing their performance earlier that year at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion. X&Y, their third studio album, debuted at #1 in 32 countries and elicited stellar reviews. “Coldplay have made their masterpiece,” said Blender while Rolling Stone named them the “biggest rock band of the year.”
Coldplay have sold millions of albums worldwide thus far and won Grammy awards, Brit awards, Q awards and NME awards as well as the top Ivor Novello award, numerous VMA and MTV Europe awards and a World Music award.
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends their latest studio album was released on 15 June 2008 going #1 on the UK album chart, despite having come on the market only three days previously. In that time, it sold 302,000 copies; the BBC called it "one of the fastest-selling records in UK history", the album going to win numerous awards including the Grammy Award. Coldplay have now released the new single Christmas lights available only as a digital release.
About Ovi Music Store
Available across 38 countries, Nokia Ovi Music Store offers people the chance to enjoy legal, good quality digital music directly on their Nokia device or personal computer making it by far the most globally scaled digital music provider on the planet. The India Ovi Music Store offers music lovers access to close to 5 million legal, digital soundtracks from a range of artists, including international hits and local talent. The Indian consumers can enjoy music in two ways - Ovi Music Unlimited and the Ovi Voucher store. While Ovi Music Unlimited gives users unlimited music download for a year from the time they register, the Ovi Voucher store gives users an opportunity to download a select number of songs in MP3 format. The service is available across a range of Nokia devices in India, including Nokia N8, Nokia X6, Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Nokia 5530 XM and Nokia 5235.
About Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world’s leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters to them. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.