Florence + the Machine’s third studio album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful, has soared to the top of the US album chart in a record-breaking move for the band.
This is the first time Florence Welch’s pop-rock outfit has scored a No 1 album on Billboard’s Hot 200 chart, after their 2011 debut album, Ceremonials, peaked at No 6 and its follow-up, Lungs, reached No 14 in 2013.
Welch and co have bumped A$AP Rocky off the top of the US album chart, after the Harlem rapper debuted at No 1 last week with his second studio album, At. Long. Last. A$AP.
How Big How Blue How Beautiful was released on Tuesday 2 June in the US and had sold the equivalent of 137,000 album units by Sunday 7 June, according to Nielsen Music, the US data-tracking organisation that monitors the physical and digital sales of albums as well as sale-equivalent streams.
Florence + the Machine topped the UK charts with this latest album, too. Both previous albums also reached No 1.
Welch and her band recently played New York’s Governors Ball music festival on 5 June, and have announced a series of tour dates in the UK and Ireland for September this year.
