My Coldplay.com

All went according to plan with a debut album, 2001’s “Is This It,” selling a solid million in the U.S. and collecting international accolades. But a second album, 2003’s “Room on Fire,” stalled at half the sales, and even supporters started to question the band’s will to lead while watching Coldplay do the hard work to achieve the status some wanted for the Strokes. To make matters worse, such other upstarts as Franz Ferdinand and the Killers walked through the commercial door the Strokes opened.

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