Arctic Monkeys - 'AM'
David Bowie - 'The Next Day'
Disclosure - 'Settle'
Foals - 'Holy Fire'
James Blake - 'Overgrown'
Jake Bugg - 'Jake Bugg'
Jon Hopkins - 'Immunity'
Laura Marling - 'Once I Was An Eagle'
Laura Mvula - 'Sing To The Moon'
Rudimental - 'Home'
Savages - 'Silence Yourself'
Villagers - '{Awayland}'
Arctic Monkeys' AM could become the fastest-selling artist album of the year after clocking up more than 125,000 UK sales in just four days.
The Domino album is a certainty to become the band's fifth UK chart-topper out of their first five releases on Sunday and has already accumulated the second highest weekly sales of 2013 for an artist album with two days of trading still to go. According to the Official Charts Company, it had sold 125,669 copies up to the end of Thursday, overtaking the opening tally of 121,415 achieved by Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros album To Be Loved.
Only Daft Punk's Columbia-issued Random Access Memories has sold more copies among artist titles during a week this year, shifting 165,091 units immediately after its release in May.
rctic Monkeys will no doubt be celebrating this evening as their latest album, AM, debuts at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, and in doing so sets a new chart record.
AM, which is released on the Domino Records label, is Arctic Monkey’s fifth consecutive studio album to debut at Number 1, and the first indie-released act to achieve such a feat in British chart history. That tally increases to six for front man Alex Turner, whose side project The Last Shadow Puppets also debuted at Number 1 with 2008’s The Age Of The Understatement.
According to Official Charts Company sales data, more than 157,000 copies of the Sheffield band’s album have been purchased in the UK over the last week. AM is now the second fastest selling album of 2013 so far behind Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, which sold 165,000 copies during its first week on sale back in May.
“Congratulations to the unstoppable Arctic Monkeys and all at Domino Records,” comments Official Charts Company Chief Executive Martin Talbot. “Scoring a fifth Official Number 1 studio album in a row is an exceptional achievement.”
I would actually say this is their best album yet (which is really saying something given they have brought out 5 incredible and extremely diverse albums in their 7 years in the limelight. 7 if you count Alex's output)).
so happy for them. and yes I agree that it is their best album yet. it is just perfect from beginning to end, it feels cohesive and complete in itself and it has an incredible vibe about it that is unmistakeably Arctic Monkeys
