Mumford & Sons have scored back-to-back No.1 albums with their sixth LP Prizefighter (Island) debuting at the summit.
Prizefighter is the British band’s second No.1 in less than 12 months, following the chart-topping result for Rushmere in April 2025. Mumford & Sons are the first British band to have achieved two different No.1 studio albums of original material within a period of less than a year for more than two decades.
With strong physical sales, Prizefighter was the clear frontrunner in the albums race and finished the week with 35,505 units (30,259 physical copies, 1,036 downloads and 4,210 sales-equivalent streams), according to the Official Charts Company.
The week one result for Prizefighter is almost entirely in line with the opening for 2025 LP Rushmere (35,655 units) – although Mumford & Sons saw a streaming consumption increase of 46% for the new album compared to the first week total for the prior release.
It’s a particularly strong streaming result for a guitar band, and may in part be thanks to some of the artist collaborations on the album, including fellow Island UK artist Hozier, Gigi Perez, Chris Stapleton and Gracie Abrams.
Lead single Rubber Band Man with Hozier peaked at No.64 in the UK (69,880 units), while Badlands with Gracie Abrams has also just debuted at No.64 in the week of the album release. They are the highest-charting singles for Mumford & Sons in more than seven years.
Their love for making music together, the heights they continue to scale, the sheer joy that has always shone through on record and on stage, make them a truly great British band for any era
Louis Bloom
The record was co-written and co-produced alongside The National’s Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in upstate New York.
Mumford & Sons now have four No.1 albums in total: Babel (2012), Wilder Mind (2015), Rushmere (2025) and Prizefighter (2026).
The band’s most consumed album to date is 2009 debut Sigh No More with 1,902,890 units.
“Working with Mumford & Sons has been one of the greatest blessings of my career and to be celebrating yet another number 1 album makes me, and the whole label, so proud,” Island EMI president Louis Bloom told Music Week. “Their love for making music together, the heights they continue to scale, the sheer joy that has always shone through on record and on stage, make them a truly great British band for any era.
“Huge respect to Aaron Dessner, Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Gigi Perez, and Chris Stapleton who all helped make this album so special and I also have to give a massive shout out to the team, special mentions for Sam Lunn, Al Smith, James Lee and Max Lutkin, whose passion, creativity and dedication has been inspiring.”
Mumford & Sons tour Australia and New Zealand in the spring, followed by UK and European festivals including headlining BST Hyde Park.
Click here for our interview with Louis Bloom on the chart-topping Mumford & Sons campaign.
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