Sir Elton John has seen an enormous spike in streaming since his Glastonbury headline set.
The ‘Rocket Man’ legend delivered a stellar present at Worthy Farm on Sunday (25.06.23) evening for what could find yourself being his final ever UK efficiency, and Spotify has revealed its fast influence.
Based on the streaming platform’s spherical up after the competition, streams of Sir Elton’s songs rose by 294 p.c throughout the UK within the hour after his set.
In the meantime, Saturday headliners Weapons N’ Roses kicked off their present with ‘It is So Straightforward’, and the track noticed a 300 p.c improve the next day.
Friday evening headliners Arctic Monkeys have been recognised by Spotify because the artists with probably the most tracks showing on user-generated Glastonbury playlists.
Elsewhere on the competition invoice, Rick Astley – who made his Worthy Farm debut – noticed a 294 p.c spike in streams of ‘Dance’ throughout the UK.
In addition to delivering his personal particular solo set – accomplished with a canopy of Harry Kinds’ hit ‘As It Was’ – he additionally joined Blossoms for a present crammed completely with The Smiths songs.
Rina Sawayama – who joined Sir Elton as certainly one of his 4 particular company on Sunday evening – carried out her personal set on the Woodsies Stage yesterday.
Her music noticed an enormous rise in international and UK streams on the Sunday, rising by 55 and 99 p.c respectively.
Her track ‘STFU’ – which she devoted to Matty Healy – rose by 552 p.c throughout the UK, and 399 p.c all over the world.
Lewis Capaldi and Yusuf/Cat Stevens additionally noticed rises over the weekend.
Spotify famous that over 23,000 fan-created playlists have been made with Glastonbury within the title over the past week.
Throughout these playlists, the most well-liked observe was ‘Rocket Man’ – which appeared on 7,311 on them – whereas Lizzo’s observe ‘About Rattling Time’ adopted intently behind in additional than 7,000.
