Chatting to Absolute Radio, the band's frontman Chris Martin admitted that although it perpetuates the stereotype of manufactured music there is definitely a place for the talent contest in today's market now that Top Of The Pops has gone:

"We really feel grateful for it because they don't often have bands on and we get to play what we want to play and play songs that we wrote, and no-one's asking us to change anything. It's amazing. It always has great songs on it every week. [There's] no CD:UK. No Top of the Pops. No MTV, really."

"There's no other TV show, really, except for Jools Holland, that gives you that. So we were like, 'Thank you, we'd love to'... I understand that there are people who are musically not into it, but I don't agree with them and I say that with all respect. I really love it and I think the music's great."

The X Factor final is set to take place this weekend at London's Wembley Arena and you can watch their fantastic performance at Rock In Rio below: