Florence + the Machine benefitted from the Glastonbury effect, with their Friday-night performance returning How Big How Blue How Beautiful to the No 1 slot in the UK albums charts after a two-week absence. Florence’s rise meant Wolf Alice – who had been No 1 in the midweek charts with their debut album My Love Is Cool – went into the chart at No 2.
Taylor Swift also saw the benefits of being in the public eye, in the wake of her UK shows and her spat with Apple, with 1989 rising eight places to No 4.
However, the upper reaches of the album chart were more notable for a spate of new entries – Everything Everything at No 7 with Get to Heaven, Leon Bridges at No 8 with Coming Home and Kacey Musgraves at No 11 with Pageant Material. Mika’s new album, No Place in Heaven, was a new entry at No 19.
In the singles chart, Tinie Tempah has scored his sixth No 1 single, with Not Letting Go, featuring Jess Glynne, going straight in at the top. The Belgian producer Lost Frequencies climbed 44 places to No 2, with Are You With Me.
