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Move over Scotland's Franz Ferdinand. England's Arctic Monkeys are the best band around.

The Arctic Monkeys are FANTASTIC, and are one reason why British music is the best in the world. The Sheffield band's debut album is tipped to set the new record for fastest-selling first album - beating the record held by Oasis's debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994.

Alex Turner - Lead singer/guitarist
Jamie Cook - Guitarist
Andy Nicholson - Bass
Matt Helders - Drums

Influences -

The Smiths
The Clash
The Jam

BUY THE ALBUM!!

Arctic Monkeys' debut puts Oasis in the shade

· Band to set new record for fastest-selling first album
· Newcomers stir interest 'not seen for 10 years'

Patrick Barkham
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian

Local band turned superstars ... Arctic Monkeys

The Arctic Monkeys are set to eclipse Oasis with the fastest-selling debut rock release ever after a frantic first day of online and over-the-counter sales.

More than 200 fans in Sheffield queued from midnight to buy the first copies of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, after the four-piece band celebrated their second successive No 1 single with a small gig in their home town.

HMV estimated first-day sales of 60,000, which would mean the album selling more than 200,000 copies by the end of its first week in the shops to beat Oasis's Definitely Maybe, which became the fastest-selling rock debut in 1994.

The figure is even more impressive because January is traditionally a month of low record sales, and pirate copies of the album were leaked online last month. In keeping with a band whose reputation spread via word-of-mouth online after they released their first songs on their website, the band are continuing to refuse to appear on Top of the Pops. But singer Alex Turner, 19, guitarist Jamie Cook, 20, bassist Andy Nicholson, 19, and drummer Matt Helders, 19, will celebrate their success tonight with a sold-out concert in Dublin, the first date of the countrywide ShockWaves NME Awards Tour, alongside Maximo Park, We Are Scientists and Mystery Jets. Arctic Monkeys were also nominated for four NME awards yesterday.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not was yesterday outselling the second-placed release, Richard Ashcroft's Keys to the World, by four to one on Amazon.co.uk. "Arctic Monkeys" was also the top Amazon search term over the weekend, ahead of favourites such as "iPod".

"We've shipped more Monkeys on day one than we did in the entire week one for Domino's [record label] last breakthrough act, Franz Ferdinand," said Damian Peachey of Amazon.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not was also the biggest-selling album on iTunes, while the Arctic Monkeys' two singles, When the Sun Goes Down - which went straight to number one in the singles chart - and I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, were the first and sixth most downloaded songs.

"I haven't seen this level of excitement for a new band since the arrival of Oasis more than 10 years ago," said Phil Penman, head of music at HMV.

"It's remarkable how, in just a few months, the Arctic Monkeys have gone from being a cool local band promoted by their fans via the internet to a superstar act connecting with the wider record-buying public."

guardian.co.uk

azzuri · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 3771

Met the arctic monkeys when I went to a tiny gig of theirs in Belfast around 9 months ago - before I or anyone else actually knew who they were. Was speaking to the drummer for a while and he is a nice, down to earth guy - hope they do well for themselves.
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Morph · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject:

Yeah seen them in Glasgow. Good band, Nice to see fresh new guitar bands making it
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Blackleaf · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

26 January 2006

ARCTIC MONKEYS' DEBUT TOPS THE BEATLES

By Allison Martin

ARCTIC Monkeys have beaten The Beatles in a list of the all-time greatest British albums.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not came fifth despite only being released on Monday. Revolver by The Beatles came ninth.

Top of the NME poll was The Stone Roses debut album released in 1989. Second was The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths and third was Oasis with Definitely Maybe.

Arctic Monkeys are set to have the fastest-selling debut album of all time with nearly 120,000 copies sold on its first day in the shops.

Music mag NME said the band deserved to be in such exalted company in the poll.

It added: "Consider some of the great British debuts. Lumping Whatever People Say I Am... in with these records might seem premature, but what made them all great was attitude and innovation and sheer balls - something the Monkeys possess in abundance.

"Passion, belief and style are timeless, and so will this be."

The top 20 albums are:

1 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

2 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

3 Oasis - Definitely Maybe

4 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

5 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

6 Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

7 Pulp - Different Class

8 The Clash - London Calling

9 The Beatles - Revolver

10 The Libertines - Up The Bracket

11 Radiohead - The Bends

12 The Specials - Specials

13 The Verve - A Northern Soul

14 David Bowie - Hunky Dory

15 Primal Scream - Screamadelica

16 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

17 The Streets - Original Pirate Material

18 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

19 The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come

20 The Beatles - Rubber Soul

mirror.co.uk

Morph · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:48 am Post subject:

Although they are a good band, i dont like this culture of given so much praise to a band on the strength of this i mean is this albulm better than revolver by the Beatles and looking futher down what are the libertines doin there
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SLG · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

Aye - I don't know what Blackleaf is getting so excited about. If they're still there in 2 years never mind 30, then they'll be doing well.