E! Online — Ladies and gentlemen, folk rock is in—big time. Mumford & Sons' sophomore album, Babel, has skyrocketed to the top of the Billboard charts, selling a whopping 600,000 units... more info

Prefix — 2012 will be remembered for plenty--as an election year, an Olympic year, that year when the world didn't ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/mumford-sons-beat-out-justin-bieber-madonna-with-6/70070/ more info

ContactMusic — Mumford and Son’s second album, Babel is the fastest selling album of the year, in the UK and the US. A report from The Guardian today reveals that... more info

Guardian Music — Band also smash Spotify streaming record, confounding critics of the serviceMumford & Sons' Babel has become the fastest selling album of the year in both the UK and the US.The group's second album sold 159,000 copies in its first week in the UK to h... more info

The Independent — They were at Number 1 in the UK album charts last week, but today folksters Mumford & Sons are celebrating success Stateside after scoring another Number 1 in the US and breaking sales records for 2012. more info

411 Mania — Huge numbers for the group… more info

ContactMusic — Mumford and Sons started playing banjos because it was easier to get work than as guitarists.The folk-rockers use fiddles and banjos on their tracks... more info

Consequence of Sound — Another big night on the UK music program. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — 'Babel' sells about 600,000 copies in its debut week, no doubt in part to its exposure on Spotify, where the album has been streamed more than 8 million times.The music industry has been grappling with the following question for much of the last few ... more info

Prefix — It’s a good week to be a member of Mumford and Sons (but then again it’s probably always a good ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-mumford-and-sons-cover-dylan-and-springstee/70055/ more info