• KYLIE MINOGUE is flying to the top of the charts this week after her huge Glastonbury 2019 performance.
  • The 51-year-old’s new retrospective collection Step Back In Time was released last Friday, and is miles ahead of the competition in the race to the summit at the end of this week.
  • At the halfway stage, the Official Charts Company says she is outselling her closest competitor by a margin of more than 2:1.
  • That competitor is Lewis Capaldi, whose set Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent is the current chart-topper, but should slip down to No2 on Friday.
  • Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection actually trails Capaldi on iTunes at time of writing, however; so the gap could tighten as the week progresses.
  • Capaldi, too, played Glastonbury over the weekend - hitting headlines for making comical use of Noel Gallagher’s disparaging remarks about him.
  • If Step Back In Time stays ahead, it will become Kylie’s seventh chart-topping album in this country.
  • She scored her sixth just one year ago, when her last studio collection - Golden - went all the way to the top.
  • Step Back In Time features all seven of her Number One singles, plus another 23 Top 10 hits - some of which were played at her massively well-attended Legends slot at Glasto yesterday.
  • The Glastonbury headliners are also having sales surges: The Killers’ Direct Hits is looking likely to shoot up to No8 after a 375% boost.
  • Stormy’s Gang Signs & Prayer has had a 314% bump and is at No14 at the midweek stage.
  • The Cure, meanwhile, are at No45 with their Greatest Hits, up 137%.
  • Because their headline slot was only last night, the impact of their performance will likely be seen in full on Friday.
  • Further down, George Ezra jumps back to No49 with Wanted On Voyage, Sigrid returns to No62 with Sucker Punch, Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You is No64, Liam Gallagher’s As You Were is No70, Fontaines DC’s Dogrel is No94 and Lost and Found by Jorja Smith is at No98.
  • Outside of Glastonbury, The Black Keys are in third place with Let’s Rock, while Chris Brown opens at No4 with Indigo.
  • Over on the singles chart, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber are on track for an eighth week at No1 with I Don’t Care, holding Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello at No2 with Senorita.
  • Sheeran pops up again at No3 with this week’s highest new entry; Beautifyl People with Khalid.
  • This week’s final listings will be revealed on Friday.