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Seriously? Daft Punk are the only act there that, at a push wouldf headline The Other Stage. look at the Other stage headliners from the past two years. The Flaming Lips, Pet Shop Boys, Orbital, Primal Scream, The Chemical Brothers, QOTSA. The three you mention are all bigger than thos and all three could easily headline The Pyramid.

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On the basis of having big and popular enough back catalogues and being 'current'(as all 3 are modern acts)then only Kanye of the 3 can imo, nothing 'easy' about it.

This years headliners albums sales...

U2 - 150 million

Coldplay - 50 million

Beyonce - 75 million

Primal Scream - 10 million

Chemical Brothers - 5 million

Queens of the Stoneage - 2.5 million

The ones I mentioned as Other Stage headliners...

Kanye West - 15 million

Arcade Fire - 2.5 million

Daft Punk - 2.5 million

Daft Punk fit the older massive dance act that haven't done nothing huge in years etc The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.

Arcade Fire neither have the sales or popular enough back catalogue, if they were to be given the slot it would be on the basis that they are a criticaly acclaimed, up and coming act. Given the slot they would go onto mainstream and massive success but that's not where they are yet.

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Ooh, where'd you get those stats, interesting reading. Worth considering though that AF's most high profile record came at a time where less people buy albums than ever before...

http://www.billboard.com/news/album-sales-plummet-to-lowest-total-in-decades-1004095638.story#/news/album-sales-plummet-to-lowest-total-in-decades-1004095638.story

... And a high proportion of the acts you listed surely made the majority of their sales before funeral really started selling in 2005, when album sales began to plummet. Would be interesting to compare the sales of each of those acts latest albums and throw in someone like radiohead. Primal scream (who I love) have far outsold AF in total but there's a reason AF now headline Hyde park and primal scream play O2 academies...

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Seriously? Daft Punk are the only act there that, at a push wouldf headline The Other Stage. look at the Other stage headliners from the past two years. The Flaming Lips, Pet Shop Boys, Orbital, Primal Scream, The Chemical Brothers, QOTSA. The three you mention are all bigger than thos and all three could easily headline The Pyramid.

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i saw them in the dance tent in '97. it was a live show, but i remember being underwhelmed. that could be because it was last thing on the Sunday night of a very wet weekend. if you've heard Alive 1997, you'll know it's not the easiest stuff to dance to at times.

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Record sales are a massivley inaccurate and somewhat retarded way of assessing popularity for a particular festival. If you could have the record sales of various bands only including people who are going to the festival in a given year then it would be wonderful, but why would you consider how many records a band had sold to people who will never go to Glastonbury when deciding whether they'd be big enough to headline Glastonbury?

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On the basis of having big and popular enough back catalogues and being 'current'(as all 3 are modern acts)then only Kanye of the 3 can imo, nothing 'easy' about it.

This years headliners albums sales...

U2 - 150 million

Coldplay - 50 million

Beyonce - 75 million

Primal Scream - 10 million

Chemical Brothers - 5 million

Queens of the Stoneage - 2.5 million

The ones I mentioned as Other Stage headliners...

Kanye West - 15 million

Arcade Fire - 2.5 million

Daft Punk - 2.5 million

Daft Punk fit the older massive dance act that haven't done nothing huge in years etc The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.

Arcade Fire neither have the sales or popular enough back catalogue, if they were to be given the slot it would be on the basis that they are a criticaly acclaimed, up and coming act. Given the slot they would go onto mainstream and massive success but that's not where they are yet.

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How many albums had Arctic Monkeys sold when they headlined?

Arcade Fire have the live show to blow the Pyramid Field away. Why would they need a back catalogue any larger than what they have already when that is PROVEN as a live headline act.

How many albums had Basement Jaxx sold when they stepped in for Kylie? They rocked it that year, put on a real party.

Daft Punk headlining the Other stage HAS to happen some time.

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Album sales are always misleading. For a start, they're worldwide figures and not UK ones.

Also, if you took a sample of Glastonbury go-ers, there definitely wouldn't be 30 times as many owners of Beyonce albums than of Arcade Fire albums. So it doesn't really prove anything.

Coldplay and Beyonce have HUGE worldwide commercial appeal, but Arcade Fire have still had number 1 albums here. And they've headlined big festivals across the world. Daft Punk are a widely popular act, they appeal to a much broader spectrum of people than to just dance music fans. At a push Daft Punk would be other stage headliners, but Arcade Fire and Kanye would definitely be pyramid headlining and no less.

And all of this is said without considering the actual quality of the acts.

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I have to admit the crowd decreased noticeably from the libertines to arcade fire at reading. I was about the middle of the circle bit at the front and i've never had so much space around me at a headliner at a fest.

However I don't really think this will be the case at glasto, they've got bigger since then + a large chunk go to the pyramid headliner regardless.

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I have to admit the crowd decreased noticeably from the libertines to arcade fire at reading. I was about the middle of the circle bit at the front and i've never had so much space around me at a headliner at a fest.

However I don't really think this will be the case at glasto, they've got bigger since then + a large chunk go to the pyramid headliner regardless.

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Arcade Fires sales in the UK have remained relatively flat for all 3 albums.

Anyway what I am saying is to me a headliner to me should be a large established act(be that one massive album or over several). Don't get me wrong I love Arcade Fire but if given the choice, wouldn't put them on the Pyramid. Acts like those are in the alternative large act group to me and so should play the Other. I can't ever see Arcade Fire being as big as Kings of Leon or Artic Monkeys(not a fan of either btw), their music just doesn't fit the mainstream bracket enough.

As for the R&Ls thing, I've heard mixed things about it. 1.they played amazing(they always seem to do) and 2.a huge chunk of the crowd just f*cked off to Pendulum.

As for them being bigger than Kings of Leon and Artic Monkeys when they headlined, both of them were multi platinum selling in this country and abroad whilst Arcade Fire are NOT.

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As for them being bigger than Kings of Leon and Artic Monkeys when they headlined, both of them were multi platinum selling in this country and abroad whilst Arcade Fire are NOT.

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