Coldplay: 'We can't get any bigger'

Coldplay have claimed that they tried to focus on getting better rather than becoming more popular with their new LP.

Singer Chris Martin said the sales figures for their first three albums can't be topped, so the group decided that they didn't need to make "big songs" on Viva La Vida.

"We thought, 'We can't possibly get any bigger, let's just get better," Martin told NME. "We're actually a bit scared because we've taken the safety off this time.

"It's not like we've got any songs on the record where we think, 'Oh, it's OK because we know the big songs are on there', we had some of those, but we took them off.

"We decided it was time to push what the band could do forward."

Coldplay made their new single 'Violet Hill' available for fans to download for free last week. Viva La Vida is released on June 12.