Over the course of over a decade together, Bastille’s unique sound has connected with audiences across the globe like no other British band in recent memory. The band’s chart-conquering twice No.1 debut album ‘Bad Blood’, which featured theinternational hit ‘Pompeii’, was the biggest-selling digital album of 2013. They became that year’s biggest-selling global breakthrough act, with over a billion Spotify streams earning them the British Breakthrough Act award at the 2014 Brits, along with two Grammy nominations. Since then, ‘Bad Blood’ has gone on to become triple platinum and sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone. Fast forward to 2020 with two further album releases, Wild World (No.1 UK, 2016) and Doom Days No.4 UK 2019) and the release of their acclaimed documentary, Bastille Re-Orchestrated, Bastille were nominated for Best Group at the BRITs. In 2022 Bastille released their fourth studio album, Give Me The Future, which was acclaimed by critics across the board, and shot straight to the top of the UK charts, earning the band their third No.1 album.
2023 was a year of celebration for the four-piece as they marked the 10-year anniversary of the release of their breakthrough debut album Bad Blood. The band released ‘Bad Blood X’, an extended edition of Bad Blood and have played a special series of sold-out Bad Blood Xshows and festivals across the UK, Europe and the US. They also joined forces with multiple Academy Award® and Grammy®-winning composer Hans Zimmer to record Pompeii MMXXIII, a stunning rework of their era-defining international hit single. The track featuredon the end credits of BBC’s Planet Earth III, with Bastille frontman, Dan Smith working on the music across every episode alongside Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers. In 2024 the band took a year’s hiatus with a break from touring. With over 13 million records sold, 3 No.1 albums, 6 UK top 40 singles and 2 billion video views, Bastille continue to be one of the world’s most streamed band.
