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Adele Joined By Coldplay, Muse In Sales Bounce

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As predicted, Adele is bouncing back on the charts on both sides on the Atlantic. She is being joined on the U.K. at least by Coldplay and Muse, who also headlined Glastonbury, the world’s biggest green field rock festival, which was broadcast around the globe last weekend.

Adele’s chart placing for her third studio album, 25 (XL Recordings/ Columbia), is helped by it now being made available for streaming after six months, and also because of publicity for its third single “Send My Love (To Your New Lover).”

In the singer’s native U.K., sales of 25 surged 231% and it jumped 13 places to reclaim the No. 1 slot for its 13th non-consecutive week. It was last at the top in March. Adele’s second album 21 rose 57 places to No. 10, and her debut 19 was up 163 places to Number 12, back in the Top 40 after a six-month break, said the Official Charts Company. If this is not enough, the 28-year-olds new single is her eighth in the British Top 10, rising nine spots to No. 6.

Adele has now sold more than 50 million units in total globally, more than 18 million of them from 25. Chart analysts have already predicted her sales to rise in the U.S. this week, especially on the streaming effect - 25 was released on services including Spotify and Apple exactly a week ago (June 24).

Of the other “Glasto” top acts, Coldplay, which headlined on the closing Sunday night, saw sales rise 28% for its latest Parlophone album A Head Full of Dreams, pushing it back to No. 2, while Friday headliner Muse saw Drones (Warner) surge 163 places to No. 16.

Jeff Lynne’s ELO, the band this year in what has become the Sunday afternoon “Legends” slot at Glastonbury, ended at No. 3 with a greatest hits collection on Epic /Legacy, All Over The World. Lionel Richie saw a similar increase when he performed last year in that spot, reserved for veteran acts.  Of the younger generations, the 1975, Foals, Tame Impala and The Last Shadow Puppets also saw sales rise on the back of Glastonbury performances.

The highest new entry album came from Neil Young & Promise Of The Real, with a live album with sound effects and an ecological theme, Earth, which debuted at No. 14.

Among other sales news, in the U.K. singles chart, Drake still has the longest reigning No. 1 of the digital age with “One Dance” (featuring Wizkid and Kyla), now having its 12th straight week in that position, the longest since Wet Wet Wet’s “Love Is All Around” spent 15 weeks there in 1994. Another single by the Canadian rapper, also on Cash Money/ Republic Records, is now at No. 3: “Too Good) (featuring Rihanna).

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