"How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" is the third studio album by the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, released on 29 May 2015 by Island Records.

The album debuted at number one on the UK "Albums Chart" with first-week sales of 68,788 copies, earning the band their third consecutive number-one album. The album slipped to number two for two weeks in a row, before reclaiming the number-one spot in its fourth week on the chart, with 14,419 copies sold.

In the United States, the album debuted atop the "Billboard" 200 with 137,000 album-equivalent units, of which 128,000 were pure album sales. It marked the band's first number-one album on the chart, as well as their largest sales week. As of December 2015, "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" had sold 290,000 copies in the US. The album debuted at number one on the Canadian "Albums Chart", selling 19,000 copies in its first week. In Australia, the album debuted at the top of the charts, with sales of 15,706 copies.

The album earned the band five "Grammy Award" nominations, in addition to being shortlisted for the 2015 "Mercury Prize".

Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band formed in London in 2007 by lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, drummer Christopher Lloyd Hayden & harpist Tom Monger. The band has comprised a number of other musicians.

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