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To mark what would have been the Glastonbury weekend the 大象传媒 is bringing you The Glastonbury Experience featuring over 100 archive performances available to watch on 大象传媒 iPlayer or listen to on 大象传媒 Sounds and a dedicated channel showing nothing but great performances from the Glastonbury archives from Thursday 25th to Monday 29th June.

Saturday at Glastonbury is all about those gather your friends, raise your hands and get ready for a big ol' singalong sort of moments - and Saturday of the Glastonbury Experience is no different, with Oasis, Adele, Coldplay and other artist who have produced some of our favourite Glasto anthems over the years all on the live stream.

Perfect time, then, to take a look at some of Worthy Farm's biggest singalongs. These are just some of the hits that have had people joining in unison over its 50 year history...

A pretty solid rule of thumb for a great Glasto singalong is when the sound of the thousands of fans singing in unison almost threatens to drown out the band themselves. That's exactly what happened to Pulp at Glastonbury 1995 - a last-minute stand-in as headliners but an undoubtedly triumphant one. They provided a real moment when they performed Common People, which to this day stands us one of the best karaoke tunes as well as debatably the all-time greatest Britpop anthem.

Beyoncé's Glastonbury headline set in 2011 was no short of singalongs. Singles Ladies, Run The World, Halo and loads of Destiny's Child favourites. But opening her set with Crazy In Love really set the tone - you just can't help yelping "Uh oh, uh oh" with Queen Bey, can you?

Few people know how to entertain a crowd like Dave Grohl and fan favourite Everlong during Foo Fighters' 2017 Glasto headline performance got the entirety of the Pyramid Stage-bound revellers screaming back every single word. A beautiful way to close their bar-raising set.

Glastonbury taking place slap-bang in the last weekend of June means that it's a real summer moment for all involved and there aren't many summer anthems that match the likes of Uptown Funk. Bruno Mars may not have been able to make Mark Ronson's 2015 Glastonbury set but the hitmaker got help from a supergroup that included Grandmaster Flash, George Clinton and Mary J Blige. And, of course, he got a little help from the entire crowd too.

"At that point, I knew we were going to be relatively big because I’d written ‘Live Forever’," an ever modest Noel Gallagher later said of Oasis' breakthrough 1994 Glastonbury set. The appearance came a month before their debut album release so you can imagine only the real die-hards within the crowd would know the words, but being one of the biggest singalongs of the past 30 years means that everyone will be joining in at home when re-watching this classic set.

Oasis' Wonderwall is always going to inspire a Glasto crowd to belt their lungs out, but Jay-Z's rendition of the Britpop classic to open his Glastonbury 2008 headline set had extra meaning - Noel Gallagher had been rather critical of the booking before the US rap titan hit the stage. The segue into his biggest hit, 99 Problems, meant that Jay had already won the war of words less than five minutes into his performance. A perfect Glasto one-two of hits.

Lewis Capaldi, like Jay-Z, was another act to feel the ire of Noel ahead of his Glastonbury set. His response? To wear an Oasis-esque parka and a T-shirt bearing Gallagher's face for the entrance to his Other Stage set. But it was his rendition of Someone You Loved, his platinum-selling sleeper hit, on the more intimate 大象传媒 Introducing Stage that sparked a massive singalong. There's just little that compares to an entire tent-ful of people combining with their favourite artist.

We all know that Adele has ballads in abundance but her Glastonbury rendition of debut single Hometown Glory really brought out the true fan in all of us during her 2016 set, showing just how far the Tottenham pop royalty had come, a journey we've followed from the very beginning

It may have been Sunday when The Cure headlined Glastonbury in 2019 but did that stop the Worthy Farm crowd from joining Robert Smith in song for Friday I'm Love? Well, just take a look at the video footage and tell us what you think...

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder and that was definitely true about Blur's Glastonbury set in 2009, a performance that few could have imagined possible after the band's 2000s hiatus. But Damon and co returned to an adoring crowd, with Albarn himself visibly moved during the band's rendition of Tender. But it was the evergreen Parklife that inspired the biggest mass singalong during their set.

The Legends slot at Glastonbury is saved for singalongs. And in 2014, Dolly Parton duly delivered with a whole load of them: Jolene, Islands In The Stream and, of course, 9 to 5. A classic moment that few that were there to witness will ever forget.

Dave took the tradition of a Glasto singalong to a whole new level during his 2019 set - inviting a fan from the audience onto the stage to perform his AJ Tracey collab Thiago Silva. The moment went viral online and just went to prove the kind of magic that only Glastonbury can conjure.