Listen to Coldplay's new song "We Pray", featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and TINI
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Listen to Coldplay's new song "We Pray", featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and TINI

Alan Pedder

Coldplay are taking an inventive approach to releasing their new single "We Pray", the latest preview of their upcoming tenth album, Moon Music, out 4 October via Parlophone Records.

Alongside the album version, which features a globe-spanning supporting cast in Little Simz (UK), Burna Boy (Nigeria), Elyanna (Palestine/Chile) and TINI (Argentina), the CD and 12" vinyl single releases feature three alternative versions – a "TINI version", an "Elyanna version", and a "?" version where the second verse is left blank "for your own inspiration."

The physical releases also feature a live recording of "We Pray" from the band's headlining set at Glastonbury 2024, which will not be available to download.

Listen to the album version below:

According to a press release, the TINI version will be released to streaming and download sites on 6 September, with the Elyanna version landing two weeks later.

Meanwhile, Coldplay's record-breaking Music of the Spheres World Tour continues. The band are currently in Vienna, where they recently performed a cover of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" with tour support Maggie Rogers, in an act of solidarity following the forced cancellation of Swift's Vienna dates due to a terrorist threat.


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Alan Pedder

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