"I am very concerned," he told Business Week. "Spotify competes with download stores."

"Like all of Coldplay's other titles, the new album will be on [Spotify] eventually," he continued, however, with Business Week pointing out that Holmes, along with some other managers, is basing distribution on a 'windowing practice' as in Hollywood where a film release is staggered first to theatres, then to DVD and later on cable channels and streaming sites like Netflix.

Coldplay's label, on the other ...