New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Mumford & Sons' acclaimed new album, Delta, debuts this week at #1 on the Billboard 200, Americana/Folk Albums, Alternative Rock Albums and Rock Albums charts!
Released on Gentlemen of the Road/Glassnote Records, this is the multi-Platinum, Grammy Award-winning band's third consecutive #1 debut, the largest sales week for an alternative rock album in 2018 and the sixth-largest debut among all titles this year. In celebration of the release, the band will return to NBC's "Saturday Night Live!" as musical guests on December 8.
Produced by Paul Epworth, Delta was written collectively by the band and recorded at London's The Church Studios. The band recently debuted the album at a series of exclusive fan listening events. The screenings, which took place at theatres across the globe, featured the complete album audio accompanied by visuals curated in partnership with
National Geographic. Of the concept, the band shares, "While we were recording and mixing Delta, we watched a lot of films on silent including some pretty epic wildlife films by
National Geographic—like a vision-track to our soundtrack. So, we felt it would be a nice idea to let fans experience the record in this way too."
The band is currently in the midst of an extensive 63-date worldwide arena tour including upcoming North American stops at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center (sold out), Boston's TD Garden (sold out), New York's Madison
Square Garden (two nights, first sold out), DC's Capital One
Arena (sold out) and Toronto's Scotiabank
Arena (two nights, first sold out). Special guest
Maggie Rogers will join as support. The band's largest tour to date, the Delta Tour 2018/2019 includes over 800,000 tickets, which are now on sale via https://www.mumfordandsons.com/live. See below for complete tour details.
Recent critical acclaim for Delta...
"…a fine distillation of what makes these guys so engaging…people will relate to the universal doubts and fears that are often stirringly evoked by the music and lyrics on Delta"—American Songwriter
"Mumford & Sons roar back with Delta…redefines what they do and who they are"—Associated Press
"…the band is smack in the middle of its most fertile creative period to date"—Billboard
"…remain capable of recording radio-ready earworms that challenge expectations…while still retaining the major qualities that made them superstars in the first place" —Consequence of Sound
"…their most drastic expansion in creative scope yet, both sonically and lyrically." - Esquire
"…finds the band branching out sonically, though it is still decidedly
Mumford & Sons in the expert and engaging songwriting"—Forbes
"A muted, meaningful meditation on change and its results"—Newsday
"…an uplifting anthem that is guaranteed to get fists pumping in the arenas that
Mumford & Sons will be headlining."—New York Post
"Any album this epic in scope is, at very least, worthy of their reputation."—Paste
"Wildly experimental"—Rolling Stone
"When the band do let their guard down, the effects are immediate…they create something honestly affecting"—SPIN
"Dark and thrilling, this is their best album yet"—The Top40-Charts
"Delta is the best album this band have made so far"—The Times
"For a group that refuses to be defined by their past, Delta presents a lush and vibrant vision of the band's future"—UPROXX
"…a new sonic direction for the band in its incorporation of electronic touches and spacey atmospherics"—Vulture
Already receiving widespread attention, the first single, "Guiding Light," recently enjoyed one of the biggest add weeks ever at both Alternative and AAA radio—closing out every station at both panels. The single currently sits at #1 on AAA (five straight weeks) and is currently in the top 5 at Alternative. Watch the single's official music video—which was directed by Joe Connor (Sam Smith, Coldplay) and features the band up close and personal, interacting with their fans—HERE. Moreover, a second song from the album, "If I Say," which features string arrangement by renowned British film score composer Sally Herbert, recently premiered as Zane Lowe's World Record on Beats1.
Earlier this fall, the band debuted "
Guiding Light" on "The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" with special guests The Roots. Marcus Mumford also joined host
Jimmy Fallon as a guest on the couch.
Marking ten years since
Mumford & Sons made their meteoric debut, the new music follows 2015's Wilder Mind, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.S., U.K., Australia Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway and, most recently, 2016's collaborative Johannesburg mini album. Previous LPs include 2012's Babel, which was awarded the 2013 Grammy for Album of the Year, and their 2009 debut, Sigh No More.
Mumford & Sons are Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall.
MUMFORD & SONS - DELTA TOUR 2018/2019:
November 27—Nottingham, U.K.—Motorpoint Arena*
November 29—London, U.K.—O2 Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 1—Leeds, U.K.—First Direct Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 7—Philadelphia, PA—Wells Fargo Center* (SOLD OUT)
December 9—Boston, MA—TD Garden* (SOLD OUT)
December 10—New York, NY—Madison
Square Garden* (SOLD OUT)
December 11—New York, NY—Madison
Square Garden*
December 14—Washington DC—Capital One Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 17—Toronto, ON—Scotiabank Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 18—Toronto, ON—Scotiabank Arena*
January 12—Auckland, New Zealand—The Outer Fields at Western Springs†
January 15—Brisbane, Australia—Entertainment Centre‡
January 18—Sydney, Australia—Qudos Bank Arena‡
January 22—Melbourne, Australia—Sidney Myer
Music Bowl‡ (SOLD OUT)
January 23—Melbourne, Australia—Sidney Myer
Music Bowl‡
January 24—Adelaide, Australia—Entertainment Centre‡
January 27—Perth, Australia—RAC Arena‡
February 27—Providence, RI—Dunkin Donuts Center
February 28—Hartford, CT—XL Center
March 2—Albany, NY—Times Union Center
March 4—Montreal, QC—Bell Centre
March 5—Ottawa, ON—Canadian Tire Center
March 8—Buffalo, NY—KeyBank Center
March 9—Cleveland, OH—Quicken Loans Arena
March 11—Columbus, OH—Nationwide Arena
March 12—Lexington, KY—Rupp Arena
March 14—Pittsburgh, PA—PPG Paints Arena
March 16—Charlottesville, VA—John Paul Jones Arena
March 17—Raleigh, NC—PNC Arena
March 18—Charleston, SC—North Charleston Coliseum
March 20—Atlanta, GA—State Farm Arena
March 22—Nashville, TN—Bridgestone Arena
March 23—Birmingham, AL—Legacy
Arena at The BJCC
March 25—Indianapolis, IN—Bankers Life Field House
March 27—Detroit, MI—Little
Caesars Arena
March 29—Chicago, IL—United Center (SOLD OUT)
March 30—Madison, WI—Kohl Center (SOLD OUT)
March 31—Milwaukee, WI—Fiserv Forum
April 25—Lisbon, Portugal—Altice Arena
April 27—Barcelona, Spain—Palau Sant Jordi
April 29—Milan, Italy—Medialanum Forum (SOLD OUT)
May 1—Munich, Germany—Olympiahalle
May 3—Vienna, Austria—Stadthalle (SOLD OUT)
May 5—Basel, Switzerland—St. Jakobshalle
May 7—Paris, France—Zenith
May 8—Luxembourg, Luxembourg—Rockhal (SOLD OUT)
May 9—Amsterdam, Netherlands—Ziggo Dome (SOLD OUT)
May 11—Berlin, Germany—Mercedes Benz Arena
May 13—Frankfurt, Germany—Festhalle
May 15—Cologne, Germany—Lanxess Arena
May 17—Copenhagen, Denmark—Royal Arena
May 18—Gothenburg, Sweden—Scandinavium (SOLD OUT)
May 19—Oslo, Norway—Spektrum
May 21—Stockholm, Sweden—Ericsson Globe
June 2—Liverpool, U.K.—Echo Arena
June 4—Sheffield, U.K.—Fly DSA Arena
June 6—Manchester, U.K.—Manchester Arena
June 10—Cardiff, U.K.—Motorpoint
Arena (SOLD OUT)
June 21-23—Scheessel, Germany—Hurricane Festival
June 21-23—Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany—Southside Festival
June 27-30—Werchter, Belgium—Rock Werchter Festival
*with special guest Maggie Rogers
†Gentlemen of the Road with Leon Bridges, Michael Kiwanuka, Angie McMahon, Sam Fender
‡with special guest Michael Kiwanuka
