It's the kind of statistic were prone to make up at CMU - Coldplay will send you to sleep, official - but today we don't need to, because Travelodge have made it up for us. I mean they conducted indepth research and found it to be true. Yep, new research from the hotel chain reveals that Coldplay are the band mostly likely to send us to sleep. Martin et al beat James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That and Norah Jones to the top spot. Rock n roll.
Leigh McCarron of Travelodge said: "The research shows that we are increasingly relying on slow, sleepy music and unchallenging books to take our minds off the pressures of modern living, to help us switch off and get to sleep at night. Coldplay seem to hit just the right spot among Britain's insomniacs".
The study into the sleeping habits of 2,248 Britons also found that Jordan and Sharon Osbourne's autobiographies were among the favourite books used to induce sleep.
So , if you're feeling a bit wired, fear not, Coldplay's fourth album 'Viva La Vida' is due for release in June.
Elsewhere in Coldplay news, Chris Martin's mother in law Blythe Danner has been denying rumours that he and wife Gwyneth Paltrow are going through a bad patch. She told reporters: "I've never seen two happier parents and people. Happy, happy people. I don't get it".