--- title: Coldplay's New Album to Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace' description: 'A Head Full of Dreams' comes out Dec. 4 canonical: https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-23T19:14:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:51:26.894Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Coldplay's New Album to Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace' og:description: 'A Head Full of Dreams' comes out Dec. 4 og:url: https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf577c2f46c32f77c/698853482dce014f569e40d1/chris-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Chris Martin beau biden funeral og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Coldplay's New Album to Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace' twitter:description: 'A Head Full of Dreams' comes out Dec. 4 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf577c2f46c32f77c/698853482dce014f569e40d1/chris-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Coldplay's New Album Will Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace' ## Video: Charleston Coverage: President Obama Sings 'Amazing Grace' [Watch (HLS stream): Charleston Coverage: President Obama Sings 'Amazing Grace'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mjpWpXp8.m3u8) (2:08)  _Published 2015-11-11. Charleston Coverage: President Obama Sings 'Amazing Grace'_ by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainmnent Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainmnent Weekly Nov 23, 2015 7:14 PM UTC  Chris Martin on the group Coldplay performs "Til Kingdom Comes" during funeral services for Vice President Joe Biden's son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del., on June 6, 2015. Chris Martin on the group Coldplay performs "Til Kingdom Comes" during funeral services for Vice President Joe Biden's son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del., on June 6, 2015.Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainmnent Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainmnent Weekly Nov 23, 2015 7:14 PM UTC [Coldplay’s](http://www.ew.com/topic/coldplay) latest album will have a special guest — a very special one: President Barack Obama. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin [told ](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/6758030/Barack-Obama-to-feature-on-new-Coldplay-album.html)[_The Sun_](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/6758030/Barack-Obama-to-feature-on-new-Coldplay-album.html)that the album, _A Head Full of Dreams,_ will “have a tiny clip of the President singing ‘Amazing Grace’ at that church.” He’s referring to when Obama spoke at the funeral of Reverend Clementa Pinckney — a South Carolina pastor and state senator who was [murdered at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ca82be8a8a7d47a0822f1f7f8fbf06ba/incident-report-released-charleston-church-shooting) — and [ended his eulogy by singing the hymn](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/26/barack-obama-sings-amazing-grace). Martin said they’re including a snippet “because of the historical significance of what he did and also that that song being about, ‘I’m lost but now I’m found.’” Hear the track when _A Head Full of Dreams_ comes out Dec. 4, and watch Obama’s rendition of “Amazing Grace” below. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/23/coldplay-barack-obama-amazing-grace) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/"},"headline":"Coldplay's New Album Will Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace'","datePublished":"2015-11-23T19:14:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:51:26.894Z","description":"'A Head Full of Dreams' comes out Dec. 4","url":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf577c2f46c32f77c/698853482dce014f569e40d1/chris-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainmnent Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf577c2f46c32f77c/698853482dce014f569e40d1/chris-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chris Martin beau biden funeral","caption":"Chris Martin beau biden funeral","creditText":"Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/","name":"Coldplay's New Album Will Sample Obama Singing 'Amazing Grace'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Charleston Coverage: President Obama Sings 'Amazing Grace'","description":"Charleston Coverage: President Obama Sings 'Amazing Grace'","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mjpWpXp8/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-11T16:09:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mjpWpXp8.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4124663/coldplay-album-barack-obama-amazing-grace/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```