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Rihanna to appear on the new Coldplay album after singer Chris Martin finally "plucked up the courage to ask her"

by Nicole Villeneuve

Coldplay has unveiled the studio version of the second single, “Paradise,” from upcoming album Mylo Xyloto today, and with the new song comes some good news about the album: there’ll be a duet with Rihanna on it.

“The album is designed as a whole piece. It has boy and girl lead characters and top of our list for the girl part was Rihanna, but it took a while to pluck up the courage to ask her,” singer Chris Martin told the Sun.

“We did a show in Las Vegas and I met her and said, ‘Do you think there’s any chance?’ I was very Hugh Grant-like and spluttering about it,” he says. Rihanna will appear on the song “Princess of China.”

You can listen to the new single “Paradise” below.

[via MTV]