Streams of music by Elton John, Rina Sawayama, Rick Astley and extra have spiked after their performances at Glastonbury this weekend.
In accordance with a brand new Spotify round-up of this 12 months’s Glastonbury tracks and artists that was shared with NME, streams of John’s songs elevated 294 per cent within the UK within the hour after his career-spanning headline set on the Pyramid Stage yesterday (June 25).
Gun N’ Roses‘ opening monitor of their headline set on the Pyramid stage on Saturday (June 24), ‘It’s So Simple’, noticed a 300 per cent enhance in streams within the UK on Sunday.
In the meantime, Friday (June 23) headliners Arctic Monkeys, have been recognized because the artists with essentially the most tracks on user-generated Glastonbury playlists.
Rick Astley’s debut Glastonbury efficiency was additionally adopted by a 294 per cent spike in steams of his track ‘Dance’ within the UK. Throughout his set, Astley carried out a canopy of Harry Kinds’ ‘As It Was’, earlier than happening to carry out with Blossoms for a shock set at consisting solely of The Smiths covers.
After Rina Sawayama’s Woodsies Stage efficiency on Saturday (earlier than she joined John on-stage as a particular visitor the next day), her music skilled an enormous spike in world (55 per cent) and UK (99 per cent) streams on Sunday.
Her monitor ‘STFU’, devoted to Matty Healy, noticed will increase of 522 per cent within the UK and 399 per cent globally.
Different performances that appeared to ring a bell with listeners included Lewis Capaldi on Saturday – who noticeably skilled vocal difficulties and struggled with tics on stage as a result of his Tourette’s syndrome – along with his music seeing a 42.4 per cent spike on Sunday.
There was additionally a 148 per cent UK enhance in streams of Yusuf/Cat Stevens‘ ‘Girl D’Arbanville’, after the artist delivered what followers described as a “mesmerising” and emotional efficiency.
In accordance with information, followers have been additionally creating their very own Glastonbury-themed playlists – over 23,000 with Glastonbury of their title emerged within the final week. The preferred tracks in these playlists have been John’s ‘Rocketman’, which featured in 7,311 playlists, and Lizzo’s ‘About Rattling Time’ which was in additional than 7,000.
In a 5 star evaluate of John’s Glastonbury efficiency, NME mentioned the present was “one of many pageant’s best-ever headline units”.
His set additionally broke viewing figures on the BBC, with hundreds of thousands watching throughout the UK.
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