'I have to think of it as the final thing we're doing': Chris Martin hints that Coldplay's seventh album could be their last

They have enjoyed meteoric success since releasing they burst into the scene in 2000.

And Coldplay’s next studio album could very well be their last as hinted by band’s frontman Chris Martin.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, the 37-year-old explained: ‘It's our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it's like the last Harry Potter book or something like that.’

He added: ‘Not to say that there might not be another thing one day, but this is the completion of something...I have to think of it as the final thing we're doing.

‘Otherwise we wouldn't put everything into it.’

The band’s seventh album is provisionally titled A Head Full Of Dreams and the group – which consists of lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion – a

nd will follow on from the international success of their latest release, Ghost Stories, which is 2014’s best-selling album so far.