Anyone who flips on the Super Bowl halftime show in February will hear Coldplay’s latest songs free, but don’t expect to find them on unpaid streaming music services for awhile.
The band’s new album “A Head Full of Dreams” went on sale Friday but was unavailable on Spotify and other online music services that have a free tier.
That puts Coldplay in the company of Adele and Taylor Swift as the latest megastar artist to boycott services that let listeners hear songs free on demand.ย Spotify offers all-you-can-eat tunes to people whoย pay outright with $10-a-month subscriptions or or whoย sit through advertising to listenย without ponyingย up.