Coldplay signed with a rock music record label.
Coldplay . The Blue Room was their first release on a major label , after signing to Parlophone . is an independent European rock music record label . Parlophone Limited ( also known as Parlophone Records ) is a German-British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon . The British branch of the company was founded in 8 August 1923 as The Parlophone Co. Ltd. , which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz record label .