"Christmas Lights" is a song by British rock band Coldplay, released on 1 December 2010 as a digital download single.

[2] The morning after he began work on the single, he performed a segment of the still in-progress song for Steve Kroft during an interview for 60 Minutes that aired on 8 February 2009.

[3] Media outlets including Cosmopolitan, The Indian Express and The Telegraph praised "Christmas Lights" as one of the best holiday songs of all time.

[1] A countdown in minutes and seconds to 1 December 8pm GMT, appeared on the homepage of the website, accompanied by an animated GIF of the album art.

It was originally thought that "Christmas Lights" would be a song from the band's fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto, but this was confirmed not to be the case by Coldplay's official fan-question answer system The Oracle on two occasions.

The original plan was to film a simple video at Oxford Street, as the place is mentioned in the song's lyrics.

Martin rises up from the floor, then begins to play the piano, which is revealed to be on an outdoor stage in front of the Thames.

[12][13] One hundred fans of the band appear in the music video; they release coloured balloons from a boat on the Thames whilst singing along to part of the song.