Coldplay’s Chris Martin & Dakota Johnson Break Up: Report
Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson have called it quits after about eight years of on-and-off dating, People reports.
The magazine reported Wednesday (June 4) that the 48-year-old Coldplay frontman and 35-year-old actress recently split for good. The news comes a couple of weeks after they were spotted out together in Malibu, where they’d shared a home since 2021, in mid-May.
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Billboard has reached out to reps for Martin and Johnson for comment.
Martin and Johnson first started dating in 2017. In 2024, People reported that the couple had been secretly engaged for years but weren’t in any rush to tie the knot.
The “Fix You” singer and Materialists star kept their relationship mostly private, though they did give fans a few looks into their romance over the years. In January 2022, they giggled together as Martin made a surprise cameo in one of his then-girlfriend’s Zoom calls while promoting the film Cha Cha Real Smooth, and a couple of months before that, Martin gave Johnson a sweet shout-out during a Coldplay concert in London.
“This is about my universe, and she’s here,” he told the crowd at the time, gesturing to the actress in the audience, before performing the band’s Billboard Hot 100-topping BTS collaboration “My Universe.”
“We’ve been together for quite a while, and we go out sometimes, but we both work so much that it’s nice to be at home and be cozy and private,” Johnson told Elle UK in December 2021. “Most of the partying takes place inside my house.”
Prior to his relationship with the Fifty Shades of Grey star, Martin was married to Gwyneth Paltrow from 2003 to 2014. The pair share 21-year-old daughter Apple and 19-year-old son Moses, about whom Johnson told Bustle in 2024, “I love those kids like my life depends on it. With all my heart.”
Johnson previously dated actor Jordan Masterson and musician Matthew Hitt.
News of Martin’s split from the Hollywood star comes amid Coldplay’s yearslong Music of the Spheres Tour, which clocked in at No. 1 on the Top Tours chart in April after shows in Asia drew $67.4 million with 502,000 tickets sold, according to Billboard Boxscore. The band’s last album, Moon Music, arrived in October and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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