Which Coldplay album was released in 2005?

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Coldplay’s album released in 2005 was X&Y.

X&Y is Coldplay’s third studio album and arrived on 6 June 2005 in the United Kingdom, followed by its United States release on 7 June. It was the long-awaited follow-up to A Rush of Blood to the Head and became one of the biggest commercial albums of the year.

The album’s title reflects its visual design, which uses Baudot code to represent letters and numbers. Its track list includes “Speed of Sound,” “Fix You,” “Talk,” and “The Hardest Part.” A hidden track, “Til Kingdom Come,” appears as a plus sign in the album’s packaging and was originally intended as a collaboration involving Johnny Cash.

Listeners sometimes mix up the release order because Parachutes came first in 2000, A Rush of Blood to the Head followed in 2002, and X&Y was delayed after the band discarded many earlier recordings. X&Y was ultimately the best-selling album worldwide in 2005.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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