Mumford and Sons will be battling it out for the number one album this week after their triumphant Glastonbury headline set.
The band’s 2012 second album, Babel saw combined sales on Sunday and Monday rise by 384 percent when compared with the same two days last week. This dramatic increase made it the biggest selling album of the week so far, data from the Official Charts Company (OCC) released by the BPI revealed.
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys have also benefited from the ‘Glasto-effect’ after their Friday performance with all four studio albums re-entering the top 100 in the album charts.
The band’s debut record Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not saw a huge 8,431 percent increase in sales over the first two working days of this week when compared with the same period the week before. As a result the album rose from 180 to 32 in the album charts.
Gennaro Castaldo of UK record labels body, the BPI, said: ‘We know that high profile awards shows, such as the BRITs, and music festivals can have a huge galvanising effect on artist sales, but in recent years the ‘Glasto-effect’ seems to have become even more pronounced, particularly now that so many more of us can use our mobile devices to gain instant access to our favourite tracks and albums.’
The Rolling Stones have also benefited from their performance with sales of greatest hits compilation Grrr up by 334 percent on last week making it the 17th most purchased release.
Further findings from the OCC showed that the extent of the impact of Glastonbury - nearly half of this week’s Top 40 albums (19 titles) are by acts which performed.
The band’s 2012 second album, Babel saw combined sales on Sunday and Monday rise by 384 percent when compared with the same two days last week. This dramatic increase made it the biggest selling album of the week so far, data from the Official Charts Company (OCC) released by the BPI revealed.
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys have also benefited from the ‘Glasto-effect’ after their Friday performance with all four studio albums re-entering the top 100 in the album charts.
The band’s debut record Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not saw a huge 8,431 percent increase in sales over the first two working days of this week when compared with the same period the week before. As a result the album rose from 180 to 32 in the album charts.
Gennaro Castaldo of UK record labels body, the BPI, said: ‘We know that high profile awards shows, such as the BRITs, and music festivals can have a huge galvanising effect on artist sales, but in recent years the ‘Glasto-effect’ seems to have become even more pronounced, particularly now that so many more of us can use our mobile devices to gain instant access to our favourite tracks and albums.’
The Rolling Stones have also benefited from their performance with sales of greatest hits compilation Grrr up by 334 percent on last week making it the 17th most purchased release.
Further findings from the OCC showed that the extent of the impact of Glastonbury - nearly half of this week’s Top 40 albums (19 titles) are by acts which performed.
