{"id":136634,"date":"2015-07-01T23:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/07\/01\/lionel-richie-heads-to-number-one\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:44:54","slug":"lionel-richie-heads-to-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/lionel-richie-heads-to-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie heads to number one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/LUZHOVCVKDVMHPPYSFBG.jpg><\/p>\n<div>Soul star Lionel Richie is heading to number one as he enjoys a post-Glastonbury sales boost.<\/div>\n<div>Fans and converts have been snapping up his greatest hits album, The Definitive Collection, in the wake of Sunday\u2019s televised performance.<\/div>\n<div>As a result, the 2003 album is in pole position in the official midweek chart update &#8211; a jump of 103 places.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhen they told me this morning, I was screaming like a kid with his first hit record,\u201d Richie told the BBC.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m trying to be very calm about this, but there\u2019s no way you can be calm about this. This is like Christmas.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Featuring hits such as All Night Long, Hello and Machine Gun (with The Commodores), The Definitive Collection\u2019s previous chart peak was number 10.<\/div>\n<div>According to the Official Charts Company, 17 of the top 40 albums in the midweek chart are Glastonbury acts, including The Who, Paloma Faith, James Bay and Jungle.<\/div>\n<div>Richie\u2019s sales spike may not last until the weekend, however, so all eyes will be on the full countdown this weekend.<\/div>\n<div>It will be the final time the chart is revealed on a Sunday, after which the music industry moves to a new, synchronised release day &#8211; with all new music coming out on Fridays.<\/div>\n<div>The first Friday chart will be published on 10 July.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soul star Lionel Richie is heading to number one as he enjoys a post-Glastonbury sales boost. Fans and converts have been snapping up his greatest hits album, The Definitive Collection, in the wake of Sunday\u2019s televised performance. As a result, the 2003 album is in pole position in the official midweek chart update &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}