Glastonbury 2013: The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Singles Revealed!

26/06/2013

By Daniel Lane

 

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All the pre-Glastonbury excitement has been about Arctic Monkeys, Rolling Stones and Mumford & Sons – but Bastille, Rudimental and Disclosure are the acts who top the Official 2013 Glastonbury Singles Chart.

 

This weekend, 170,000+ tent-carrying music fans are set to descend on Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset for the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts - or simply Glastonbury, as it has come to be known.

 

Boasting 2,000 performances across 50 stages or venues, this year’s Glastonbury sold out in a record one hour and 40 minutes! And if that’s anything to go by, we dare say that a fair number of you are probably either en route to Glastonbury, or are already there, queuing up, ready to pitch your tents.

 

Well, here’s a little gift from Official Charts HQ to get you all set for the weekend; We've been busy doing what we do best - number crunching! - and we can officially reveal that if this weekend's Glasto stars were judged on their sales performance in 2013 alone, here's an indicator of who might just be the must-see acts of the weekend (complete with Spotify and Deezer playlists)!

 

According to Official Charts Company sales data - from week one of this year, up to midnight last Saturday night (June 22) - Bastille are the biggest selling singles act of this year on this weekend’s bill. The London quartet top our Top 40 countdown with their single, Pompeii, which reached Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart back in March. To date, it has sold over half-a-million copies. Catch Bastille on the John Peel Stage on Friday.

 

In second place on the Official 2013 Glastonbury Singles Chart is Rudimental FT Ella Eyre’s Waiting All Night. The East London group have also racked up more than half-a-million sales of their track, which reached Number 1 back in April. Rudimental will be playing the Sonic Stage on Saturday.

 

The Top 5 is completed by Disclosure and AlunaGeorge’s While Noise (Number 3, with over 390,000 sales this year), Dizzee Rascal’s Bassline Junkie (Number 4, with 187,000 sales) and The 1975’s Chocolate (Number 5, with 186,000 sales).

 

Mumford & Sons are the only headline act to make the singles countdown, and have three tracks in the Top 40; I Will Wait (Number 7), Little Lion Man (29) and The Cave (39). Arctic Monkeys narrowly miss out on a Top 40 placing – their new single, Do I Wanna Know?, is at Number 42 after less than a week on sale, while The Rolling Stones remain one of UK’s biggest selling singles artists, with more than 40 Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits to their name.

 

The Official 2013 Glastonbury Singles Chart

 

1 BASTILLE POMPEII

2 RUDIMENTAL FT ELLA EYRE WAITING ALL NIGHT

3 DISCLOSURE FT ALUNAGEORGE WHITE NOISE

4 DIZZEE RASCAL BASSLINE JUNKIE

5 1975 CHOCOLATE

6 DISCLOSURE FT SAM SMITH LATCH

7 MUMFORD & SONS I WILL WAIT

8 DISCLOSURE FT ELIZA DOOLITTLE YOU & ME

9 IGGY AZALEA WORK

10 GABRIELLE APLIN PLEASE DON'T SAY YOU LOVE ME

11 BEN HOWARD ONLY LOVE

12 RUDIMENTAL FT JOHN NEWMAN FEEL THE LOVE

13 RITA ORA RADIOACTIVE

14 ALUNAGEORGE ATTRACTING FLIES

15 JAKE BUGG LIGHTNING BOLT

16 KODALINE HIGH HOPES

17 RUDIMENTAL FT JOHN NEWMAN & ALEX CLARE NOT GIVING IN

18 BASTILLE FLAWS

19 HAIM DON'T SAVE ME

20 HAIM FALLING

21 GABRIELLE APLIN THE POWER OF LOVE

22 TOM ODELL ANOTHER LOVE

23 FOALS MY NUMBER

24 BEN HOWARD KEEP YOUR HEAD UP

25 DIZZEE RASCAL FT ROBBIE WILLIAMS GOIN' CRAZY

26 JAKE BUGG TWO FINGERS

27 STYLO G SOUNDBWOY

28 JESSIE WARE IF YOU'RE NEVER GONNA MOVE

29 MUMFORD & SONS LITTLE LION MAN

30 AZEALIA BANKS 212

31 BASTILLE LAURA PALMER

32 GABRIELLE APLIN PANIC CORD

33 LAURA MVULA GREEN GARDEN

34 EXAMPLE PERFECT REPLACEMENT N/A N/A

35 TOM ODELL CAN'T PRETEND

36 VAMPIRE WEEKEND DIANE YOUNG N/A

37 RITA ORA HOW WE DO (PARTY)

38 KODALINE LOVE LIKE THIS

39 MUMFORD & SONS THE CAVE

40 PUBLIC ENEMY HARDER THAN YOU THINK N/A

© 2013 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

Edited June 26, 201312 yr by liamk97

So in short:

 

500k+ Pompeii

500k+ Wating All Night

390k White Noise

187k Bassline Junkie

186k Chocolate

So in short:

 

500k+ Pompeii

500k+ Wating All Night

390k White Noise

187k Bassline Junkie

186k Chocolate

 

Basically, they're not really giving you any more info than I could. I have the same figure for BJ, & for Choc, and only a couple of k higher for WN.

Edited June 26, 201312 yr by vidcapper

Basically, they're not really giving you any more info than I could. I have the same figure for BJ, & for Choc, and only a couple of k higher for WN.

I'm sure they did a similar list for 2012, but gave sales for the whole Top 40!

 

EDIT: Actually, I think it was a Reading and Leeds festival I was thinking of, but still, sales for the whole Top 40 would be great!

Edited June 26, 201312 yr by liamk97

Pleasantly surprised to see "Chocolate" that high, especially given some of the songs beneath it which I thought had been bigger.

So, new Bastille song in selling more than Rolling Stones catalogue tracks shocker?