Talk:Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Genre
So, we should get sources for what genre this album belongs into. It's a popular album so it shouldn't be too hard to find something. We need them anyways per WP:RS, WP:OR and WP:SUBJECTIVE. Andrzejbanas (talk) 10:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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Tracklist
Some notes before I change this again, since they won't fit in the edit summary: -- I need a name (talk) 17:06, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) All songs are credited to Berryman/Buckland/Champion/Martin as individuals in the liner notes, not the band Coldplay. Pharrell Williams isn't mentioned anywhere, not even on Qobuz, Tidal or Apple Music . Only Spotify claims he's a writer on Life in Technicolor, which appears to be a mistake.
 * 2) There's also no need to repeat the list of writers 13 times when only 2 of them are different and the rest can be covered by . I'm not sure there's even any point of listing producers per track, for the same reason.
 * 3) Reign of Love is explicitly named on the tracklist on physical releases, unlike Chinese Sleep Chant and The Escapist. It's omitted on the original digital release, but this is corrected on subsequent re-releases (see above links for examples).
 * 4)  is the correct formatting for a non-numbered, bulleted list.   is an unnecessary kludge. Chinese Sleep Chant and The Escapist should probably just be mentioned in   anyway.

US release date
Unless I'm missing something the US release date in the infobox is currently unsourced. Also, it saying the album was leaked in early January makes it seem like a May date was implausible. Would you be able to look into this? – zmbro (talk) (cont) 15:27, 7 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I genuinely have no idea about Viva's proper release date, streaming platforms say it was indeed in May though. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 16:39, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. We definitely need to figure that out. I can investigate later this week. – zmbro (talk) (cont) 16:49, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The album debuted at number-one in Billboard 200 on 25 June 2008. Perhaps this May date refers to the single? I mentioned "streaming platforms" but that was after a quick check on Spotify, which can be quite inaccurate with older release dates. Apple Music US and UK are currently showing the same release date for the album. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/viva-la-coldplay-1306822/ GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 16:56, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I say we remove the May date. Discogs (though not reliable) says June 17, as does AllMusic (which always covers US dates). – zmbro (talk) (cont) 15:07, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Put this 17 June date in the release history and leave the infobox with the UK date only, it's the one Coldplay counts for anniversaries anyway. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 15:40, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Good article proposal
Due to complete copyedit I did today, I'm nominating this article as being a good article. Looking forward to the review and making any necessary changes (if needed). Electricmaster (talk) 10:22, 6 December 2022 (UTC)