Chris Martin admits "quality control is so high right now" knowing that Coldplay's 12th album will be their last.

The chart-topping rock band will release their 10th studio album, 'Moon Music', on Friday (04.10.24), and the 47-year-old frontman explained that they made the decision to stop making records beyond that point to keep their legacy intact.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, he said: “We are only going to do 12 proper albums and that’s real. Yeah. I promise.

“Because less is more. And for some of our critics, even less would be even more! It’s really important that we have that limit.

“There’s only seven Harry ­Potters. There’s only 12 and a half Beatles albums. There’s about the same for Bob Marley, so all of our heroes.

“Also having that limit means the quality control is so high right now, and for a song to make it, it’s almost impossible, which is great. And so where we could be coasting, we’re trying to improve.”

He went on: “There’s something about the Coldplay thing. That’s just what . . . I don’t know where the songs come from. I don’t know where the ideas come from, but that’s just been coming to me for about four or five years now.

“Like, ‘You have to finish like this,’ and I trust that just like I trust the songs. So if we do something together after that creatively beyond touring, then it’ll be something different, or a side thing, or a compilation of things we hadn’t finished.”

The 'Yellow' hitmaker admits he wouldn't want himself and his bandmates - Jonny Buckland, also 47, and Guy Berryman and Will Champion, both 46 - to spend the rest of their lives making Coldplay records.

He added: “Also, to make an album great as a band, it’s such a lot of wrang­ling with people and I want to give the ­others some of their life for ­themselves.

“I don’t want to, when we’re 60, be like, ‘Will, we need you. Come on! We can do better than this!’”