A week after scoring the biggest Billboard 200 debut of the year with Babel, Mumford & Sons will hang on to the #1 spot next week despite a major sales plunge.
After moving 600,000 copies in their bow, the British folk revivalists suffered a 72 percent second week drop to 169,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. That was more than enough to hold off a charge from fellow Brits Muse, who slid in at #2 with their sixth album, The 2nd Law, which moved 102,000 copies.
Six other acts made it into the top 10 as well, including singer Miguel, whose Kaleidoscope Dream hit #3 (71,000), rockers Three Days Grace with Transit of Venus (#5, 48,000), jazz vocalist Diana Krall's Glad Rag Doll (#6, 46,000), reality belter Jackie Evancho's Songs From the Silver Screen (#7, 41,000), British diva Cher Lloyd's Sticks & Stones (#9, 31,000) and veteran Irish bard Van Morrison's Born to Sing: No Plan B (#10, 29,000).
The rest of the top 10: Pink, The Truth About Love (#4, 52,000) and Little Big Town, Tornado (#8, 31,000).
A week after its #2 debut, Green Day' ¡Dos! swooned 9 spots to #11 as sales fell 79 percent to 29,000, while fellow 1990s stars No Doubt suffered a similar fate as their first album in 11 years, Push & Shove, dropped 10 spots in its second week to #13 as sales drooped by 78 percent to 25,000.