Maisie Peters is the first British female solo artist in nine years to land a #1 album on the Official Albums Chart, which this week feels the effects of last weekend’s Glastonbury. Dave & Central Cee hold onto the top slot at singles.
With a #1 secured for her second album, The Good Witch (Gingerbread Man/Atlantic), the 23-year-old Peters becomes the youngest British female to top the chart since then-18-year-old Ella Henderson did it in 2014.
The chart’s newcomers this week include Young Thug’s Business is Business (Young Stoner Life) at #15 and Kelly Clarkson’s Chemistry (Atlantic) at #22. It’s Young Thug’s third Top 10 entry and Clarkson’s eighth U.K. Top 40 LP.
The Top 40, meanwhile, is packed with albums by acts who performed at Glastonbury. Elton John and Lewis Capaldi fared best.
John’s greatest hits compilation Diamonds (Mercury) saw an uplift of 188% over the previous week, landing at #2. The Glasto Effect extended to John’s singles. Stephen Sanchez, who joined Elton on stage, saw a jolt in his “Until I Found You” (Mercury/Republic), which rose to a new peak of #14. John’s single with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart,” lands at #30 and 1983’s “I’m Still Standing” pops in at #34, its first time in the Top 40 since its year of release.
Capaldi’s former #1 sophomore album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (EMI), rockets 13 places to #3, while his debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, is up 25 slots to #9.
The headliners on 6/23, Domino’s Arctic Monkeys, have the most albums in the Top 40 of any Glastonbury act: 2013’s AM is #7; 2005 debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not reaches #20; and 2006’s Favourite Worst Nightmare awakes at #38.
Foo Fighters’ surprise set helped push their latest, But Here We Are (Columbia), to #14 and The Essential Foo Fighters (Sony Music CG) to #22, a 41-place spike. Lana Del Rey’s debut Born To Die (Polydor) rose 14 slots #29; Guns N’ Roses’ Greatest Hits (Geffen) rose a staggering 65 places to #31. Also, GNR’s “Sweet Child O’ Mine” went to #40 on the singles chart, its first stint in the Top 40 in 34 years.
Speaking of singles, Dave & Central Cee’s “Sprinter” (Live Yours/Neighbourhood) claims its fourth consecutive week at #1, racking up 8.6m streams across the last seven days.
Stormzy & Fredo claim this week’s highest new entry with their first collab together, “Toxic Trait” (Def Jam), debuting straight in at #11.
Moving up to new peaks are several fast-rising dance hits: Rudimental, Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry’s “Dancing Is Healing” (Room Two) up one to #5; Hannah Laing & RoRo’s “Good Love” (Polydor) at #7; and “(It Goes Like) Nanana” (XL) by South Korean DJ and producer Peggy Gou, which is up five spaces to #9.
Following its re-entry into the chart last week, Taylor Swift’s 2019 fan favorite “Cruel Summer” (EMI) continues its renaissance, vaulting 16 places to #12 and earning a new peak in the process.
