Arctic Monkeys see three-fold spike on Spotify

TRIUMPHANT sets at last weekend's Glastonbury Festival have seen a huge spike in streaming for leading bands on Spotify.

Arctic Monkeys were the big winners with a 329 per cent increase in streams following from their headline performance on the Pyramid Stage last Friday.

Chic featuring Nile Rodgers’ disco heavy set on the West Holts stage on Friday saw streams of the bands biggest hits rocket by 260 per cent, with Spotify users turning to the service to listen to their greatest hits which include, I Want Your Love, Le Freak and Everybody Dance.

Public Enemy were next on the list with streaming up 148 per cent, followed by The Rolling Stones at 125 per cent.

Portishead, Dizzee Rascal and Hurts also benefited.

Spotify has since put together a Glastonbury playlist, which you can check out below.

Eye Of The Tiger survives for UK men

DIGITAL music service Spotify recently released its top 20 songs that people like working out to. Among the pounding dance tunes by the likes of Swedish House Mafia, Calvin Harris, Will.i.am, David Guetta and the phenomenon that is Psy's Gangnam Style, sits a track quite different from the rest - Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger.

Unlike the rest of the list, it boasts chugging guitars rather than booming basslines and beeps. It is also the only song on the list made outside the last couple of years.

The reason for its high status is obvious. Most men - it was them that put it in the top 20 - see Rocky as the ideal in sports movies. That challenge of the underdog 'rising up to the challenge of a rival'. Or, for gym talk, rising up to the challenge of getting rid of that beer belly.

Strangely, it was a song that would never have come in to being had Sylvester Stallone got his own way. He had hoped to use Queen's Another One Bites The Dust as the theme for Rocky III, but was unable to get permission.

And so he asked Survivor to write a track, and Eye Of The Tiger came into existence. It appeared on the band's 1982 album of the same name and was written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik from the band.

It hit number one in countries across the globe including the US, Canada, the UK - although it only reached 62 in France - and has gone on to sell more than 8.5million copies.

Spotify’s data revealed one big difference between men and women’s playlists. UK males placed Eye of the Tiger at number seven on men’s workout playlists, but it doesn’t feature in the top 25 for women – who prefer to get their inspiration from female artists such as Florence, Jessie J and Ke$ha.

Million streams first for Spotify

DIGITAL music website Spotify has revealed a track has been streamed more than one million times in a week in the US for the first time.

Locked Out Of Heaven by Bruno Mars was the song to achieve the feat before Christmas in the week beginning December 16. It was also the most downloaded song in America that week with sales of 226,000.

The track is the first to be released from Mars' second album Unorthodox Jukebox.