Bob Vylan’s 2024 album Hum­ble As The Sun has reached num­ber one on the UK’s Offi­cial Hip Hop and R&B albums chart.

It fol­lows back­lash of the punk duo over the past week, fol­low­ing their Glas­ton­bury per­for­mance, where front­man Bob­by Vylan led the West Holts stage with chants of ​“free, free Pales­tine” and ​“death to the IDF”.

In a post on Twitter, Bob Vylan wrote: ​“Ban Bob Vylan? The peo­ple said ​‘Nah”. 

The set was broad­cast live by the BBC, with a warn­ing mes­sage dis­played on screen to view­ers, though it has not been uploaded to BBC iPlay­er.

Since receiving backlash the BBC has said that it will no longer broad­cast ​“high risk” sets & performances.

In a sep­a­rate post on July 1, fol­low­ing the festival’s con­clu­sion, the band made a state­ment on social media, stating that ​“silence is not an option”.

They continued: “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs, or any oth­er race or group of peo­ple,” they wrote. ​“We are for the dis­man­tling of a vio­lent mil­i­tary machine. A machine whose sol­diers were told to use ​‘unnec­es­sary lethal force’ against inno­cent civil­ians wait­ing for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.

“We, like those in the spot­light before us, are not the sto­ry,” they con­tin­ued. ​“We are a dis­trac­tion from the sto­ry, and what­ev­er sanc­tions we receive will be a distraction.”

Fol­low­ing their per­for­mance, Bob Vylan were dropped from Manchester’s Radar Festival’s line­up, which they were meant to head­line; however other artists withdrew from the lineup in solidarity with Bob Vylan.

The Manchester Radar Festival failed to find a head­lin­er to find a new headliner as well.

The band were also dropped by their talent agency in the days after Glastonbury.