U.K. CHARTS: PETERS IS GOOD FOR #1, GLASTO MOVES THE NEEDLE
Maisie Peters is the first female British 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 in the bag 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 include Young Thug’s Business Is Business (Young Stoner Life) at #15 and Kelly Clarkson’s Chemistry (Atlantic) at #22. This is 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 a lift of 188% over the previous week, landing at #2. Stephen Sanchez, who joined Elton onstage, 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 #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.
Domino’s Arctic Monkeys, who headlined Glasto on 6/23, have the most albums in the Top 40 of any festival 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 awakens 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 to #29. Guns N’ Roses’ Greatest Hits (Geffen) leapt a staggering 65 places to #31, and their “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 in the last seven days.
Stormzy & Fredo secure the week’s highest new entry with their first collab, “Toxic Trait” (Def Jam), debuting straight in at #11.
Ascending to new peaks are several fast-rising dance hits: Rudimental, Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry’s “Dancing Is Healing” (Room Two) up one space to #5, Hannah Laing & RoRo’s “Good Love” (Polydor) at #7 and “(It Goes Like) Nanana” (XL), by South Korean DJ-producer Peggy Gou, up five to #9.
Following its re-entry on the chart last week, Taylor Swift’s fan favorite “Cruel Summer” (EMI), from 2019's Lover, continues its renaissance, vaulting 16 places to #12 and hitting new heights in the process.
