none of these bands are really that huge in the United States, Doves are great but are playing small venues and the mainstream has no clue about them; they do know of radiohead and coldplay, but again, most of the mainstream only knows them casually, people in the US have known about U2 for 20 years, U2 had the fortune of breaking into the US when rock music was popular, now American kids only want to hear about Korn, Lincoln Park and Papa Roach -- the Oz Fest bands are what dominates; the mainstream US doesn't know about Elbow and Doves, they don't even know about their own like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
if you want to talk about outside the US, then I think Radiohead and Coldplay can rival U2, but not globally when you consider that most mainstream rock fans in the US can only vaguely hum a couple songs from each band (and yes, people get pissed at me putting so much emphasis on the US, but let's face it, that's what everyone wants to conquer commercially, and if you don't, you're not U2 or Rolling Stones BIG)
and that doesn't even take into account that Radiohead are superior to Coldplay, when Coldplay writes a record like OK Computer or Kid A (or even The Bends for that matter, and they've actually tried that), then you can talk about them with Radiohead... as it is now, Doves are much better than Coldplay (and I actually like Coldplay, but they're just another "good" band to me)
