Chris Martin, Coldplay (Photo: Live4ever Media)
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has admitted the band are beginning to regret the choice of album title for their fifth studio record, due to the confusion it is causing amongst their fans around the world.
Coldplay settled on the title ‘Mylo Xyloto’ in an attempt to combine ‘two words that you couldn’t even Google’, but are now beginning to wonder whether a more straightforward title might have saved them some headaches while on tour.
“It’s just something that we thought looked really good but everywhere we go around the world people pronounce it in the most crazy ways and we’re beginning to regret it now,” Chris Martin told Entertainment Weekly of their choice.
Following its release in October last year, ‘Mylo Xyloto’ went on to become the biggest seller in the rock genre of 2011, after shifting close to one million copies in the UK, putting it comfortably ahead of second placed ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds‘, which had sold the best part of 500,000 units in the final months of 2011.