Coldplay reveals album title and release date

Lead singer Chris Martin of British rock band Coldplay. Photo / Reuters

NEW YORK - Coldplay's fourth album, Viva la Vida, will arrive June 17 in North America and a day earlier internationally, according to the band's spokesperson.

The Capitol release is the follow-up to 2005's X&Y which topped the Billboard 200.

So far, Coldplay's lone confirmed live dates are at the first Pemberton Festival in British Columbia on July 27 and Japan's Summer Sonic Festival on August 9-10.

- REUTERS/Billboard