Elton John Breaks Viewing Records As He Plays Epic Last U.K. Gig At 2023 Glastonbury Festival

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Elton John is going out with a bang. The musician played his last U.K. gig at Glastonbury Festival on Sunday night, with the show being watched on BBC One by the biggest ever overnight audience for a Glasto performance, the broadcaster confirmed.

According to Variety, the 76-year-old had a peak overnight audience of 7.6 million and an average of 7.3 million with a 48.9 percent share.

That wasn’t the only BBC viewing record broken over the weekend, with a whopping 21.6 million people — 7 percent more than last year across linear TV — watching artists perform to 200,000 festival-goers having the time of their lives on Worthy Farm.

A record amount of people tuned in to watch the Artic Monkeys’ headlining set on Friday night, with the band nabbing a peak audience of 2.6 million and an average of 1.5 million. READ MORE: Fans Disappointed After Britney Spears Doesn’t Join Elton John On Stage At Glastonbury Saturday’s headline act, Guns N’ Roses, had a peak audience of 2.1 million on BBC Two, with an average audience of 1 million, while Lewis Capaldi and Lizzo’s Pyramid Stage performances on Saturday, aired on BBC One, hit a peak audience of 2.4 million and an average of 2.3 million.