Coldplay make history with Wembley Stadium record and hint at 2027 tour
Coldplay made history last week after completing their 10th Wembley show in a row for their 2025 round of the Music of The Spheres World Tour. Overtaking Taylor Swift and Take That, who are the previous record holders.
So far, Coldplay’s Music of The Spheres World Tour has included a whopping 225 shows, and they’ve already announced plans to expand the tour in 2027 with an additional 138 shows.
Coldplay ended their 2025 Music of The Spheres Tour with a stint at Wembley Stadium, with the tenth and final show concluding on Friday, 12th September 2025.
The band were originally due to break the Wembley record on Monday, 8th September; however, they were forced to reschedule the show due to tube strikes in London, meaning the band couldn’t get an event licence as there were no means of safely transporting people home.
“I know it caused a lot of inconvenience for a lot of you,” Martin told the crowd. “In return, we’re going to play a show fifteen times better than any show we’ve ever played before. That’s the pledge.”
Having seen the Music of The Spheres Tour three times between 2022 and 2025, twice at Wembley Stadium and once in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, I will admit that nothing has beaten their 2022 Wembley Stadium shows for me.
But they certainly did their best to try and match it.
The concert feels like another world, it’s controlled chaos with LED wristbands flashing, confetti raining down, lasers slicing the air, inflatable balls flying, planets dangling above, glowing masks, a flash dance from a security guard, 3D glasses that turn the lights into hearts and stars, and even a random puppet show.
Playing hits from every era of their almost 30-year career, Coldplay filled the stadium with light, gave a brief rendition of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ and even indulged themselves with a fun little rendition of Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’.
The highlight for the crowd seemed to be Charlie Brown, Sky Full of Stars, and Yellow.
The band also played their first ever live performance of Jupiter, as Chris Martin pre-warns, “This could be terrible. But if it is terrible, don’t worry, we’re going to play Yellow in a minute.”
“Will Champion could fart in the microphone, as long as we play Yellow.”
The band are no stranger to Wembley Stadium. Their first headline show at Wembley Stadium was back in 2009 as part of their Viva la Vida Tour.
The Music of The Spheres Tour has been running since 2022. On this tour alone, the band have played Wembley a total of 16 times.
Who are the top record holders of Wembley Stadium Shows?
- Coldplay – 16 nights on the Music of the Spheres tour, 2022-25*
- Taylor Swift – Eight nights on the Eras tour, 2024
- Take That – Eight nights on the Progress tour, 2011
- Oasis – Seven nights on the Live ’25 tour, 2025
- Michael Jackson – Seven nights on the Bad tour, 1988
- Harry Styles – Six nights on Love on Tour, 2022-2023
(* 6 nights in 2022 and 10 nights in 2025)
Coldplay are really a band like no other, doing their best to make the shows as sustainable as possible. With the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% compared to the band’s last tour.
The Wembley shows have been powered entirely by renewable energy, with no generators in use.
Electricity is supplied to the grid from Higher Power Farm, Coldplay’s new renewable energy and ecosystem restoration project in the west of England.
Fans ride electric bikes and jump on kinetic energy platforms, which helps to actively charge the batteries with electricity for the next show… whenever that may be.
The band have even pledged to donate 10% of proceeds from the Wembley dates to the Music Venue Trust, supporting grassroots venues and emerging UK artists.
Find out more about Sustainability at Coldplays Music of The Spheres Tour here
The final Wembley show was incredible, with the audience made to be the centre of the show. Too many times to count, I realised I had no idea where Coldplay even were on stage, as I was too busy immersed in the lights of the wristbands worn in the crowd (reusable wristbands, made from 100% compostable, plant-based materials, may I add).
Of course, the Coldplay Cam also has to make an appearance.
This is usually the part of the show where frontman, Chris Martin, serenades audience members with an improvised song.
Martin later admits that his sense of humour “gets me into trouble every day”.
Playing into the controversy caused by the married tech CEO Andy Byron, who was caught in a loving embrace with his HR executive on the giant screens of a Coldplay concert at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, earlier this year.
The incident that happened at Gillette Stadium went viral and has reportedly led to at least one divorce.
So when the jumbotron section of the show starts on Friday, Martin issues a fun disclaimer. “Whatever happens here, stays here. Guaranteed. So if you’ve just embezzled the company funds, come on camera now. It’s fine.”
Before a young couple flashes up on the screen.
“Holy crap, don’t put me through this again,” the singer grimaces while laughing, and only agrees to play a song about the couple after they’ve flashed their wedding rings and kissed on camera.
Feelslikeimfallinginlove is where the audience is instructed to put their ‘moon glasses’ on as the lights in the stadium erupt into a twisting rainbow, and anyone wearing their glasses is able to see hearts and stars galore.
But it’s a made project that truly puts the cherry on top of the cake. During the final encore of All My Love, thousands of them unfolded paper red hearts and held them above their heads – the result of an online project organised by a German superfan called Hannah
It was a bittersweet moment. Fans know the band have a bit of a break planned.
Earlier that night, Chris Martin announced the next show would “Probably be in about 18 months in South Africa”.
During one of the previous Wembley shows, Martin had already announced the band would return to Wembley Stadium in 2027.
At the penultimate Wembley concert on Saturday, September 6th, frontman Martin again revealed that the ‘Music of The Spheres’ tour is far from over. “This tour has 138 more shows to go,” he told the crowd.
“We have a break coming up, and we’ll announce the shows for 2027 soon. But we only have two more this year, and then we’re gonna go and make this really special thing that we’ve been making for years and years, and it’s really good. But shush!”
The “really special” project Martin hinted at is most likely another album.
Even if they use their break to make new music, Martin has announced it will be their penultimate album, as the band has previously said they have plans to make 12 albums and then stop.
“The Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes,” after 12 records, he told BBC Radio 2 in 2021.
But fans do not need to panic. The band have prefaced so many times before that if they stop producing albums, it doesn’t mean they are going to stop doing shows.
“After that, I think we will only tour.”
And given the response to Music of the Spheres, it proves Coldplay could play the same setlist for the rest of their lives, and fans would still sell out every show.
The band put on an electric show, transporting the crowd into a different world filled with celebration, love and positive energy – it’s exactly what the world needs a bit of right now.