Yawn: Coldplay Top Q Award Nominations

02nd September 2008 | by Aidan Williamson

Furthermore cementing themselves as the most boring music publication in the U.K, Q Magazine have unsurprisingly nominated Coldplay for four awards.

The band have received nomination for best track, best video, best album and best act in the world today. The annual ceremony will be held on 6 October at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane. Both nominees and winners are voted for by the magazine's readers.

The full list of nominees is thus:

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST: Duffy; Adele; Santogold; Bon Iver; Gabriella Cilmi.

BEST NEW ACT: Fleet Foxes; Glasvegas; The Ting Tings; The Last Shadow Puppets; Vampire Weekend.

BEST TRACK: Keane - 'Spiralling'; Duffy - 'Mercy'; Coldplay - 'Violet Hill'; Katy Perry - 'I Kissed A Girl'; The Ting Tings - 'That's Not My Name'.

BEST VIDEO: Hot Chip - 'Ready To The Floor'; Coldplay - 'Violet Hill'; The Ting Tings - 'That's Not My Name'; Vampire Weekend - 'A-Punk'; Goldfrapp - 'Happiness'

BEST LIVE ACT: Kaiser Chiefs; Kings Of Leon; Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds; The Verve; Rage Against The Machine.

BEST ALBUM: Coldplay - 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends'; Fleet Foxes - 'Fleet Foxes'; The Last Shadow Puppets - 'The Age Of The Understatement'; Vampire Weekend - 'Vampire Weekend'; Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - 'Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!'

BEST ACT IN THE WORLD TODAY: Coldplay; Oasis; Muse; Metallica; Kings Of Leon.

Q Magazine, replacing Insomniacs Anonymous since 1986. Speaking of, they really do have those groups for everybody nowadays. Why just the other month we were slowly walking down a hall (shut up Liam!) and we stumbled across 'Depersonalisationists Anonymous'.

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