Record store Rough Trade has reported a surge in shoppers looking to buy music by artists who performed at last weekend’s Glastonbury Festival.
The independent chain said it had seen an uplift in the number of online customers searching for music by acts on the bill at the event on Worthy Farm in Somerset, which was attended by a quarter of a million people and streamed on the BBC. Rough Trade, which has shops in London, Bristol and Nottingham and spawned the label Rough Trade Records, said there had been a 2,550% rise in the number of fans looking to buy albums by Elton John, who headlined the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night with what he said would be his final UK show.
The retailer said there was a 1,120% rise in traffic for Scottish alternative hip-hop group Young Fathers and a 150% uptick for soul trio Gabriels, with other notable increases for Fred Again (+ 250%), Cat Stevens (+150%) and Blondie (+65%). Rough Trade said Glastonbury provided an “incredible platform” for artists to inspire fans into supporting them by buying copies of their releases.
