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5:32 pm - 09/26/2012

mumford & sons to sell 575-625k of "babel" the first week


Mumford & Sons Score Year's Biggest Debut; Green Day, No Doubt, Lupe Fiasco Follow

Their banjo keeps strumming, and now Mumford & Sons have the year's biggest chart debut.

The Glassnote Records folk-rockers' new album, Babel, will score a #1 album next week, with a total between 575-625k, besting Justin Bieber's previous best debut of 374k by what could be more than a quarter of a million units.

That's a lot of picking folks, based on one-day sales reports from music retailers both physical, but especially digital, which could amount to nearly three-quarters of the total.

Coming on the heels of front man Billie Joe Armstrong's iHeartRadio Music Festival outburst over the weekend and subsequent trip to rehab, the first of Green Day's three Reprise albums, Uno, will debut with between 150-175k, which supports the notion there is no such thing as bad publicity when it comes to selling records. Call it a punk marketing set-up.

Interscope's new No Doubt album, Push and Shove, the Orange County ska-popsters' first in a decade, will do a quite respectable 120-125k in first-week sales.

Atlantic hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor II is on target for sales of between 85-95k.

Ultra's new release from electronic dance music icon Deadmau5, Album Title Goes Here, should do in the 40-50k range.

hits daily double
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jessography 26th-Sep-2012 10:49 pm (UTC)
I think my dad will like an album from them. Do you know if they sell an edited version of their last album? Or do you know if the new one has profanity?
lindsey11387 26th-Sep-2012 11:00 pm (UTC)
Doesn't Walmart only sell edited versions? One of the songs on the new album has "fucked" in it, but that's it.
jessography 26th-Sep-2012 11:08 pm (UTC)
My dad is sooo old-fashioned that he'll dislike even one curse word.
ritaamber 26th-Sep-2012 11:50 pm (UTC)
i got mine at walmart and broken crown still says 'fuck it all away'
adnamay 28th-Sep-2012 10:13 am (UTC)
Sometimes Amazon has them. It's definitely marked on the page if they do.
valerieau 26th-Sep-2012 10:50 pm (UTC)
yessssss
soft_volume 26th-Sep-2012 10:50 pm (UTC)
Interscope's new No Doubt album, Push and Shove, the Orange County ska-popsters' first in a decade, will do a quite respectable 120-125k in first-week sales.
woowoo, i've been listening since the stream and i can't stop.
__angelofmusic 26th-Sep-2012 10:53 pm (UTC)
Their album took me a couple listens to get into it but now I really like it.
bradentastic 26th-Sep-2012 11:13 pm (UTC)
same. i've really grown to love it
sun_set_blvd 26th-Sep-2012 10:51 pm (UTC)
Woah! I love them but I'm still mystified by their US success.
lovepollution 26th-Sep-2012 11:10 pm (UTC)
I'd say it comes down to the fact they can sound a lot like Dave Matthews Band.
__angelofmusic 26th-Sep-2012 10:52 pm (UTC)
I tried to buy pre-sale tickets to their show in LA in November and the tickets were gone so fast. I hope I can get some on Friday. I'm in love with the new album.
vanishingbee 26th-Sep-2012 10:52 pm (UTC)
Yesssssss. Though I'm not totally in love with it yet, I need to parse out the songs.
filmfreakfranco 26th-Sep-2012 10:52 pm (UTC)
BOW!!

mumford and songs tho sis
misoras 26th-Sep-2012 11:17 pm (UTC)
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odeeryme 26th-Sep-2012 10:53 pm (UTC)
lol @ mumford & songs
lifeleftbehind 26th-Sep-2012 10:53 pm (UTC)
SO GOOD
leperheart 26th-Sep-2012 10:55 pm (UTC)
I *JUST* got this album today (along with THE AVENGERS) and OH my fucking god do I love the hell out of it already.
ptr28 26th-Sep-2012 10:55 pm (UTC)
YESSSS
hunty 26th-Sep-2012 10:55 pm (UTC)
625k? omg what?
ptr28 26th-Sep-2012 10:56 pm (UTC)
it's been forever but the wait was totally worth it
mattthew 26th-Sep-2012 11:34 pm (UTC)
I KNOW SISTREN
butterflybee260 26th-Sep-2012 10:56 pm (UTC)

Can someone help a girl out? Download link pls?
ptr28 26th-Sep-2012 10:58 pm (UTC)
http://bit.ly/UCOWaO
;)
butterflybee260 26th-Sep-2012 11:12 pm (UTC)

Would if I could, but I'm struggling to pay rent this month, much rather buy an album. :(
zibbydoo324 26th-Sep-2012 11:14 pm (UTC)
I love you for that!
I'm buying it tomorrow once I get paid.
Then no more new music for a loooong time.
flaca 26th-Sep-2012 11:12 pm (UTC)
hold on just a sec
vivisexion 26th-Sep-2012 10:57 pm (UTC)
one time, i was rly drunk and felt like i was dying and knew i had to throw up in order to feel better, and i decided to put my ipod on shuffle to listen to while i was being sick. mumford and sons came on just as i was throwing up, and i've hated them ever since.

i just felt like you guys needed to know this lol
keef_riffhards 26th-Sep-2012 10:59 pm (UTC)
lol irl

charming story bb
hunty 26th-Sep-2012 11:00 pm (UTC)
lmao
xo_soccer9 26th-Sep-2012 11:18 pm (UTC)
LOL
runaround_kid 27th-Sep-2012 01:28 am (UTC)
hahaha dead
hireaunicorn 27th-Sep-2012 09:14 am (UTC)
Dead
Ty bb
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