Coldplay played ten nights at Wembley Stadium, the longest residency in its history, on what became the most-attended tour of all time.
Coldplay, with more than 170 million records sold, played ten nights at Wembley Stadium between Friday 22 August and Friday 12 September 2025. It was the longest residency by any artist in the stadium’s history.
Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion formed the band in London in 1997, first calling it Big Fat Noises and then Starfish. Their debut album, Parachutes (2000), carried the breakthrough single “Yellow” and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year.
In 2008 “Viva la Vida” became the first song by a British act this century to top the US and UK charts at once. The Music of the Spheres World Tour began in 2022.
By the end of this run it was the most-attended tour in history, with more than 13 million tickets sold. A London Underground strike moved the 7 September show to 6 September and the 8 September show to 12 September.
Coldplay were the first band to power a Wembley concert entirely by renewable energy, with no generators. Aluminium cups replaced about 400,000 plastic ones across the ten shows.
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Orchestra, a group of young players, joined the band at every Wembley date.