Coldplay invited Blackpink singer Rosé onstage last night in Goyang, South Korea, to perform her song “Apt.”
The band kicked off the cover solo, with Rosé stepping out to join for the chorus in a shower of pink confetti. After the song finished, frontman Chris Martin declared, “Rosé, let’s do it again!” prompting the musicians to play the tune a second time.
Rosé released “Apt,” a collaboration with Bruno Mars, in October. The song appeared on her debut LP, Rosie, which arrived in December. The full-length project followed Rosé’s debut solo singles in 2021, “On the Ground” and “Gone.” She first shared the news about her debut solo album in October 2024. “I have poured my blood and tears into this album,” she wrote on Instagram, adding, “I cannot wait for you to listen to this little journal of mine.”
Coldplay have been regularly enlisting K-Pop musicians to join them, both onstage during their current tour in South Korea and on their recordings. Last week, tour opener Twice partnered with the band to perform their collaborative remix of Colplay’s single “We Pray.” The K-pop supergroup became the latest act to join the band for a version of the record, following original collaborators Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini.
During the live premiere of the record, Chilean-Palestinian musician Elyanna joined both groups on stage to perform a verse in Arabic, but it doesn’t appear on the final cut of “We Pray (Twice Version).” The record does, however, feature a brand new verse from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
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Moon Music arrived in October as Coldplay’s 10th studio album and the follow-up to their 2021 album Music of the Spheres, which featured their BTS collaboration “My Universe.”
“We just follow the song where the song wants to go — even if that song makes you fly to Korea to work with a boy band, knowing that in doing so you’re destroying any shred of cool or credibility and you risk upsetting their fans too,” Martin told Rolling Stone last year. “That’s the philosophy that we live by… I think with all of these songs we’ve chosen for this, they’ve all been allowed to be themselves, and the identity of the band has grown to accommodate that.”
