New Mumford & Sons album Babel is fastest seller of 2012 in UK and US
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 hit No 1 on Sunday, and 600,000 copies in the US to secure them their first US chart topper.In the US, the band also smashed Spotify's record for streams from an album in a single week. Users streamed "around eight million listens" from the album in i...
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 ... 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
ContactMusic — Mumford & Sons' new album 'Babel' has achieved the biggest sales week of 2012 in the US Billboard Chart.The group sold over 600,000 copies of their... more info
ContactMusic — Mumford & Sons' new album 'Babel' has achieved the biggest sales week of 2012 in the US Billboard Chart. The British folk band have sold more than... more info
ContactMusic — Folk rockers Mumford & Sons have scored the biggest-selling debut album of the year (12) in America.Babel has shot to the top of the Billboard 200... more info
Perez Hilton — Not bad for an indie band, right??
Mumford & Sons just released Babel, their sophomore album — and it has grabbed the biggest debut of any album this year in the U.S.
H... more info
Kings of A&R — Mumford and Sons sold 600k of their new CD ‘Babel’ in the first week which marks the biggest selling debut of the year. Babel‘s amazing sales far outshine the next-... 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 i... more info
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... more info
Chorus.fm — *Mumford and Sons* (http://absolutepunk.net/mumfordandsons) officially had the best debut week album sales of 2012 with over (http://www.billboard.com/news/mumford-sons-b... more info
The Independent — Mumford & Sons may have been dubbed the Muse of folk music for their ability to ratchet up sales in the US and their ability to divide opinion. But it looks as if the rea... more info