The Chainsmokers Officially Announce First Album + Tour Through…Coldplay?!
Yes – you read that right. Last night we reportedly a bunch of activity from The Chainsmokers twitter account around them dropping pretty obvious hints about an album announcement. Today we are happy to report that the guys have made it official.
In a twist of fate the official announcement came from a Coldplay retweet. Honestly that is incredibly exciting as it points towards the idea that a rumored collaboration is in fact happening. Check out the tweet below and check back for any updates. Who knew…Coldplay loves The Chainsmokers as much as the rest of the world. Ohh yeah, you should check out this massive tour as well –
https://twitter.com/TheChainsmokers/status/826102990067159040
excited for @thechainsmokers' album; I've heard some songs and I love them. cm
— Coldplay (@coldplay) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheChainsmokers/status/826112813307404288
The album in question turned out to be ‘Memories…Do Not Open,’ which landed on April 7th, 2017 and became The Chainsmokers’ first proper studio album. The Coldplay connection everyone was buzzing about wasn’t a fluke either — the two acts had already teamed up on “Something Just Like This,” which dropped in February 2017 alongside the album’s pre-order and quickly turned into one of the biggest crossover hits of the year, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
That single ended up being a huge deal for the group’s momentum heading into the album drop. During the week of March 18th, 2017, “Something Just Like This” charted in the Hot 100’s top 10 at the same time as “Paris” and “Closer,” making The Chainsmokers only the third act ever to have three simultaneous top 10 hits. Combine that with the massive tour teased in the tweets above, and it’s easy to see why this announcement felt like such a turning point for the duo — going from viral single-driven success to a legitimate full album and arena tour cycle almost overnight.
Looking back, this Coldplay-assisted rollout marked the moment The Chainsmokers fully crossed over from dance music duo to mainstream pop force, and it’s wild to think it all kicked off with a simple retweet.
The tour that followed was just as ambitious as the album itself, taking the “NEW TOUR + NEW ALBUM + NEW PRODUCTION” promise from that final tweet on the road across arenas throughout 2017. For a group that had been putting out one-off singles and EPs up to that point, jumping straight into a full album cycle backed by a Coldplay feature and a headline arena run was a pretty clear signal that Drew Taggart and Alex Pall were done being treated as a novelty act.
It also set the tone for how The Chainsmokers would operate going forward, leaning into big-name pop collaborators and radio-ready hooks rather than staying locked into a strictly EDM lane. Whatever you think of that pivot, there’s no denying it worked commercially — and it’s easy to forget now just how much of that shift traces back to this one Coldplay retweet and the flurry of hype that followed it.
