Not only have they sold out Melbourne, but Gold Coast and Cairns too. The only tickets left are for tonights gig in Hobart and next weeks show in Townsville. Read on for some trivia you can use at the dinner table tonight in order to lighten the dark mood created by your creamed corn on toast.
Here are the Babel stats - o - rama, relevent to all things Mumford & Sons since the release of said album.
1) 600k sales in first week in the USA (biggest debut of the year so far)
2) Babel smashed streaming service Spotify's Australian Records, with 1 in 10 Australian
users streaming at least one track off the album in it's first week.
3) Babel was also the most streamed album of the week in the US.
4) They are the first band since The Beatles to have SIX SONGS in Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart in the same week in the US.
5) Babel debuted at #1 in the UK and USA (and even New Zealand) and #2 in Australia. It is already Platinum in Australia and had over 30K sales in it's first week.
