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Mumford & Sons' 'Babel' scores ICONIC first week

It's official: Mumford & Sons' "Babel" has earned the biggest debut of any album this year in the U.S.

The group's second album sold 600,000 in its first week -- according to Nielsen SoundScan -- and becomes the rock quartet's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It's also the first No. 1 for its record label, Glassnote Records.

Here are some of the amazing statistics on "Babel's" first week:
Largest Debut Sales Week of 2012
Biggest Sales Week for a Rock Album Since 2008
Biggest Sales Week for RED Distribution
Second Largest Sales Week of 2012
Second Largest Sales Week for an Independently Distributed Album in SoundScan History
Second Largest Digital Sales Week for an Album
Sixth-Straight Year an Indie Album Has Hit No. 1

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girltype 3rd-Oct-2012 03:03 am (UTC)

of course! well done boys!

ritaamber 3rd-Oct-2012 03:05 am (UTC)

first i was addicted to broken crown, then babel and now hopeless wanderer is my go to. love this album.

ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:23 am (UTC)

hopeless wanderer is so epic ♥

hearthecity 3rd-Oct-2012 03:06 am (UTC)

wow, those are like old-school numbers. Good for them.

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hoodoo 3rd-Oct-2012 03:17 am (UTC)

freaking seriously

filmfreakfranco 3rd-Oct-2012 03:17 am (UTC)

ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:18 am (UTC)

people like them, just deal with it

queenweasley 3rd-Oct-2012 03:20 am (UTC)

bradentastic 3rd-Oct-2012 03:21 am (UTC)

iaaaa. and their lyrics are really cheesy.
but they appeal to hipsters, college students who want to be hip and probably a lot of adults so its a large demographic

bananasnrum 3rd-Oct-2012 03:25 am (UTC)

lol they don't appeal to hipsters. they appeal to people who listened to john mayer ten years ago.

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zemi_chan 3rd-Oct-2012 03:41 am (UTC)

backincharge 3rd-Oct-2012 03:42 am (UTC)

nope.

toilandblood 3rd-Oct-2012 03:46 am (UTC)

they really are idg them at all

dirtyknife 3rd-Oct-2012 03:46 am (UTC)

Yep.

allopatric 3rd-Oct-2012 04:20 am (UTC)

yessss

kindafunnysad 3rd-Oct-2012 04:37 am (UTC)

idk i think their sound is quite pleasant. nothing groundbreaking but still nicer than 95% of the shit out there.

vivisexion 3rd-Oct-2012 04:55 am (UTC)

ita man

chicparisien 3rd-Oct-2012 10:52 am (UTC)

yes and I don't get it

derezzed 3rd-Oct-2012 11:06 am (UTC)

no lies detected

distant_lines 3rd-Oct-2012 03:09 am (UTC)

And people thought this number was just a hopeful prediction. They actually did it! Love them!!!

backincharge 3rd-Oct-2012 03:44 am (UTC)

I think the prediction was 500k so they went WAY over predictions, which is amazing.

ritaamber 3rd-Oct-2012 03:09 am (UTC)

i ask my fancy high class coworker what time it is and our supervisor in the next room yells banjo time and one of us starts a song from this album. i love tormenting coworkers. /csb

rinanina101 3rd-Oct-2012 03:15 am (UTC)

good for them!!

lkool98 3rd-Oct-2012 03:15 am (UTC)

Well deserved. It's perfect!

iheartfamke 3rd-Oct-2012 03:15 am (UTC)

Muse is coming for their wigs next week, so hoe down.

hoodoo 3rd-Oct-2012 03:18 am (UTC)

came here to say this!

filmfreakfranco 3rd-Oct-2012 03:18 am (UTC)

not this time heaux

genbu_no_miko24 3rd-Oct-2012 03:46 am (UTC)

I L O V E THIS SONG!!!

ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:19 am (UTC)

idt they can

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hypermuseic9 3rd-Oct-2012 03:20 am (UTC)

i hope so. but lbr i don't think they're that big in the US

i need to buy their album tomorrow btw

backincharge 3rd-Oct-2012 03:45 am (UTC)

I don't see it happening tbh. Maybe top 5 but I don't think they're that big here, are they?

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sviibwhapp 3rd-Oct-2012 05:15 am (UTC)

No Moon Duo is coming for their wigs next week,

Oh well a girl can dream...

reforzado 3rd-Oct-2012 07:47 am (UTC)

i love them both, can't we all just get along?! :(

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ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:17 am (UTC)

bless people with taste who bought this album ♥

faz1988 3rd-Oct-2012 03:19 am (UTC)

Dear Mumford and Sons fans- Buying a sleeping pill is way cheaper than buying their whole album.

ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:22 am (UTC)

Dear Google+ person, leave the hating to actual lj users

queenweasley 3rd-Oct-2012 03:22 am (UTC)

filmfreakfranco 3rd-Oct-2012 03:23 am (UTC)

Dear Ali Fazal- Scrolling by this post is less embarrassing than leaving a played out comment.

keef_riffhards 3rd-Oct-2012 03:23 am (UTC)

LOL

expromqueen 3rd-Oct-2012 03:30 am (UTC)

idt sleeping pills are that cheap tbh

filmfreakfranco 3rd-Oct-2012 03:20 am (UTC)

only Gaga has sold more digital copies in her first week than mumford

get it

ptr28 3rd-Oct-2012 03:21 am (UTC)

bless this angelic Australian

su20 3rd-Oct-2012 03:23 am (UTC)

I am soo baffled by their success in the US. I'm from the UK - they're appreciated no doubt but 600k sales in the US first week...the fuck. what is going on?

They tappin up the US country folk or what?

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bananasnrum 3rd-Oct-2012 03:26 am (UTC)

its the Adele factor. catchy without being poppy, mass appeal, inoffensive.

marmar627 3rd-Oct-2012 04:12 am (UTC)

+ White men from the UK

lovebum4life 3rd-Oct-2012 03:29 am (UTC)

well I mean there sound is very americanaish lol like grassy country folk shit with some pop elements so I'm not surprised

they're not a very UK sounding band if that makes sense XD

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roguedandelion 3rd-Oct-2012 05:18 am (UTC)

Alternative folk/country like the Avett Brothers is happening in country now, so their is probably a lot of cross over appeal that doesn't happen that often. TSwift and Carrie Underwood also transcend the divide and are huge sellers.