{"id":39631,"date":"2015-05-06T02:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=39631"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:18:55","slug":"mumford-down-sharply-from-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/05\/06\/mumford-down-sharply-from-babel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford &#038; Sons&#8217; New &#8220;Wilder Mind&#8221; Pacing for 250-275K Sales; Down Sharply From &#8220;Babel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early forecast suggests Mumford &#038; Sons&#8217; &#8220;Wilder Mind&#8221; will easily win the week album sales race, but it is not without a negative element.<\/p>\n<p>In revealing that the latest Mumford album is on track to move 250-275,000 traditional US copies in its first week, Hits Daily Double&#8217;s forecast confirms that &#8220;Wilder Mind&#8221; will suffer a significant album-to-album drop.<\/p>\n<p>Predecessor &#8220;Babel&#8221; moved a considerably stronger 600,000 first week copies in the United States.  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