Lionel is Glastonbury's Number one

Lionel Richie & The Commodores 2003 release "The Definitive Collection" which  previously made it to number 10 in the UK charts when it was released, has re-entered the album charts at Number One after Richie's epic Pyramid Stage performance in the 'legends' slot at the Glastonbury Festival - its first Top 40 re-entry in six years and a jump of over 100 places.   Nearly half of this week's Top Album 40 consists of Glastonbury acts, with  Florence And The Machine  at Number Two and  James Bay  at Number Three basking in the 'Glastonbury Effect'.   This was the UK's last ever Sunday charts countdown, with the Official UK charts moving to Fridays in line with the new Global Release Day, which will see albums and singles released on Fridays worldwide, instead of on Mondays previously in the UK. 

Image: Bea Gibson (c) 2015

"Glastonbury Effect" pushes Monkeys and Stones back into the charts, and Mumfords to No1

Mumford & Sons are on course for a number one album this week after their headline performance at Glastonbury. Nearly two million viewers saw the band on BBC2 and Babel is already the best-selling album of the week so far and they have sold nearly four times as many copies when compared to the same period last week. Their first album, Sigh No More, has gone back into the Top 10, with a similar increase in sales.  Their set has been watched 163,650 times since Sunday on BBC’s catch-up platform iPlayer. The Arctic Monkeys and The Rolling Stones have also seen a marked rise in album sales since performing at Glastonbury. Watched by 1.5 million pepole on TV, all four of Arctic Monkey's studio albums are back in the top 100 and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not has risen from 180 two weeks ago to now standing at number 15. The Rolling Stones, who played to over 100,000 people on site with 2.5 million viewing at home, have sold more than three times as many copies of their compilation Grrr, while Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones has also doubled its sales. Grrr has climbed up to number 17, with a sales increase of 334%

Jake Bugg also looks likely to remain in the top 5 having seen a very healthy gain in sales, with demand of his self-titled debut album up +253.3 per cent on last week. Bastille's Bad Blood and Rudimental's Home are also set to return to the Top 10 whilst Chase & Status, who headlined the Other Stage on Saturday night, are this week's highest climber, moving 136 places to number 36 with No More Idols.

Mumford & Sons are also having success in the Official Singles Chart with seven tracks in the Official Singles Chart Top 200. The Arctic Monkeys have six in the Top 200, as do Chase & Status. Gennaro Castaldo of UK record labels body, the BPI, comments: "We know that high profile awards shows, such as the Brits, and music festivals can have a huge galvanising effect on artist sales, but in recent years the 'Glasto effect' seems to have become even more pronounced, particularly now that so many more of us can use our mobile devices to gain instant access to our favourite tracks and albums."

Glastonbury Effect pushes Beyonce to UK number 1

The post Glastonbury 'effect' on the UK charts has pushed Coldplay's last single back into the top 40 singles charts with Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall moving from 42 to 7. The event also propelled Beyonce's new ablum '4' to number one in the UK's official album charts. Other big chart winners from the televised super-fest included Elbow, Janelle Monae and Mumford & Sons. 18 million watched the live transmisisons and Beyonce's live single from Glastonbury 'Irreplacable' charted midweek at 26 and Coldplay's live In My Place charted at 31 - all proceeds go to the Glastonbury Festival main charities, WaterAid, Greenpeace and Oxfam along proceeds from U2's I Will Follow Live at Glastonbury.