"Glastonbury Effect" pushes Monkeys and Stones back into the charts, and Mumfords to No1

Mumford & Sons are on course for a number one album this week after their headline performance at Glastonbury. Nearly two million viewers saw the band on BBC2 and Babel is already the best-selling album of the week so far and they have sold nearly four times as many copies when compared to the same period last week. Their first album, Sigh No More, has gone back into the Top 10, with a similar increase in sales.  Their set has been watched 163,650 times since Sunday on BBC’s catch-up platform iPlayer. The Arctic Monkeys and The Rolling Stones have also seen a marked rise in album sales since performing at Glastonbury. Watched by 1.5 million pepole on TV, all four of Arctic Monkey's studio albums are back in the top 100 and their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not has risen from 180 two weeks ago to now standing at number 15. The Rolling Stones, who played to over 100,000 people on site with 2.5 million viewing at home, have sold more than three times as many copies of their compilation Grrr, while Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones has also doubled its sales. Grrr has climbed up to number 17, with a sales increase of 334%

Jake Bugg also looks likely to remain in the top 5 having seen a very healthy gain in sales, with demand of his self-titled debut album up +253.3 per cent on last week. Bastille's Bad Blood and Rudimental's Home are also set to return to the Top 10 whilst Chase & Status, who headlined the Other Stage on Saturday night, are this week's highest climber, moving 136 places to number 36 with No More Idols.

Mumford & Sons are also having success in the Official Singles Chart with seven tracks in the Official Singles Chart Top 200. The Arctic Monkeys have six in the Top 200, as do Chase & Status. Gennaro Castaldo of UK record labels body, the BPI, comments: "We know that high profile awards shows, such as the Brits, and music festivals can have a huge galvanising effect on artist sales, but in recent years the 'Glasto effect' seems to have become even more pronounced, particularly now that so many more of us can use our mobile devices to gain instant access to our favourite tracks and albums."

Mumfords cancel again

Mumford and Sons have had to cancel more appearances on their current US tour to give bassist Ted Dwane time to recover from brain surgery: the band were forced to cancel the remainder of their dates last week, including a headline appearance at the Bonnaroo festival on Saturday. They headline the Pyramid Stage on the final night of Glastonbury on the 30th June.

Picture: Cass Williams (c) 2011

100 hit by fake Mumford scam

The BBC report that 100 Mumford and Sons fans were turned away from the band's show in Portsmouth after it was discovered that their tickets, brought at inflated prices from secondary ticketing sites, were fakes. Police received a report that about 100 people were refused entry to the city's Guildhall on Thursday night and fan Paula Wynne told BBC News her partner had bought a pair from resale website Viagogo for £200. The tickets had a face value of £23.50 each.  Viagogo said duped fans would be offered real tickets to a future Mumford & Sons gig or a voucher to the value of the original purchased ones.