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Please note - this is a rumour [which has since been dismissed by EMI]

Viva la speed-a … Coldplay will be hard at work

COLDPLAY are plotting a surprise album which could appear little more than a year after Viva La Vida conquered the planet.

The quartet already have the spine of the collection in place thanks to their super-productive recent studio sessions with BRIAN ENO.

And if CHRIS MARTIN, BERRYMAN, JONNY BUCKLAND and WILL CHAMPION follow up their new offering with a greatest hits collection they will have fulfilled all commitments to their record label, EMI.

That would pave the way for them to follow PAUL McCARTNEY and RADIOHEAD out of the door.

A source at the label said: “The Viva La Vida sessions were incredibly fruitful. They gelled brilliantly with Brian and recorded much more music than they could fit on one album.

“The majority of the follow-up is already in the can, though they will have to go back into the studio at some point to add a few more songs.

“Standard industry contracts tend to be for six albums, so if they provide some kind of compilation after their next album they will be free agents and able to renegotiate their contract or head out on their own.”

EMI was taken over by a finance firm last year and many of the artists signed to it at the time bitterly opposed the deal.

Macca and Radiohead have already walked while the management of ROBBIE WILLIAMS have expressed severe reservations about the new regime.

The formerly beardy pop knob even started a futile “strike” in protest.

Chris Martin, however, has kept a very tactical silence on the subject and where the band’s future lies.

But he has hinted that he wants to get new material out as soon as possible.

When discussing a collaboration with KYLIE MINOGUE that didn’t make the final cut for Viva La Vida, he let slip: “It will be on a record we will put out in 2009.”

But, with global titans such as MADONNA and JAY-Z forgoing multi-million-pound record deals with concert promoters, I wouldn’t be surprised if Coldplay do part company with their home in the next couple of years.

In order to record Viva La Vida, which was released in June, the group constructed their own studio in a disused bakery in North London.

The gap between their previous album X&Y and its follow-up was a whopping three years and the band are keen to reduce the time between albums drastically.

Their touring commitments run up until the end of the year – but they are likely to announce a string of new shows in Australia and the Far East soon.

All this points to a late summer release next year for Coldplay album number five, which is a very good thing.

http://www.thesun.co.uk