Brit Beat: Taylor Swift for Next Year’s Glastonbury Festival?

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Mark Sutherland The U.K.’s biggest festival, Glastonbury, made a glorious return this month. As well as 200,000 fans in the field, the festival scored record-breaking figures for the BBC, where festival content was streamed 34.1 million times on BBC iPlayer and listened to 2.3m times on BBC Sounds, up 116% and 205% respectively on 2019, the last time the festival was held.And, after two years away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival’s future now looks secure.“With hindsight, having those two years off and time to reflect maybe wasn’t the worst thing,” says Glastonbury co-organizer Emily Eavis. “Because it made everybody love it even more.

Everybody working on it is really appreciating it in a different way – that’s a real positive and will give it a real energy for the next 10 years at least.

We’re all excited about the future.” Glastonbury managed to keep two of its three proposed 2020 headliners (Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar) intact for the 2022 event, and Eavis says she hopes the third – Taylor Swift – will make her appearance sometime soon.“I think we’ve got Taylor on board next time she’s doing some touring,” says Eavis. “We would love to have her back, obviously.”+ Stranger things have happened, but you know it’s been an unusual month for the U.K.

music biz when the nation’s hottest record is by Kate Bush.The veteran singer-songwriter topped the singles chart in her home country with “Running Up that Hill”, after sales and streams soared when the 1985 song featured in Netflix sci-fi drama “Stranger Things” — nearly 37 years after the song was first released.Leading that charge was market-leading streamer Spotify, which has a new head of music in the U.K.