Coldplay's Chris Martin falls through stage at Melbourne concert: 'Holy s**t'

Less than three weeks after Olivia Rodrigo made headlines around the world when she fell through the stage at her concert in Melbourne, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has done the exact same thing. The 47-year-old dramatically fell through an open trap door on stage during the band’s fourth and final Melbourne date on their Music of the Spheres world tour on Sunday night.

Chris was introducing the song ‘Everglow’ and speaking with fans on the b-stage when he walked backwards and accidentally stepped into a hole in the floor. The crowd could be heard gasping in videos of the incident before nearby crew members helped Chris get back on stage.

“That’s not planned!” he said as he stepped out of the hole. “Thank you for catching me, so much. Thank you guys. Holy s**t, that was nearly a YouTube moment!”

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Following the incident, Chris continued performing to the sold-out crowd and appeared unharmed. Coldplay will continue the Australian leg of their tour with four shows in Sydney this week before flying to Auckland, New Zealand.

The Music of the Spheres world tour began in March 2022 in Costa Rica and is scheduled to end in London in September 2025. The tour has grossed $1.059 billion in revenue from 9.6 million tickets across 164 dates, making it the most-attended tour of all time and second-highest-grossing tour in history.

Similarities to Olivia Rodrigo's concert incident

Despite both taking place in Melbourne, Olivia Rodrigo and Chris Martin’s stage falls happened at different concert venues. Olivia performed her Guts world tour to around 15,000 fans at Rod Laver Arena, while Coldplay performed to around 55,000 fans at Marvel Stadium.

However, both incidents coincidentally happened on the fourth and final night they were performing in Melbourne.

Fans have since taken to social media to point out the similarities, with one person writing: “Melbourne is cursed for artists falling on stage now.”

“There’s something in the Melbourne air lmao first Olivia and now Chris,” another added, while a third remarked, “What on earth is going on in Melbourne don’t people check these?”.

“Why is everyone falling and it’s all in MELBOURNE,” someone else said, followed by a different user who commented, “I’m starting to think Melbourne hates celebs”.

Olivia reveals why she's 'really happy' she fell through the stage

Olivia recently addressed her viral concert moment during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and said that while the incident is “pretty terrifying” to watch back, she now feels thankful it happened to her after having a “beautiful” experience in the hospital.

“It was actually kind of a beautiful thing, and I'm really happy it happened in hindsight,” she detailed. “So I'd just been to the Philippines - that was my next stop, Australia, after the Philippines - and I was thinking about my family and my heritage and my relatives.

“I fell and I was like all shaken up and I went to the hospital after - nothing happened, but they just wanted to make sure I didn't have a concussion.”

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Olivia went on to share that the nurse was a Filipino man with the same name as her grandpa, who passed away a few months ago.

“And so I was like, wow, that was him looking out for me making sure I didn't get hurt, and so I'm really happy it happened,” she said.

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