Arctic Monkeys Challenge Daft Punk's Fastest Selling Album Title
'AM' has sold 97,000 copies in two days
Arctic Monkeys are on course to secure the fastest selling album of 2013 title with the critically acclaimed ‘AM’.
According to the Official Charts Company, the Sheffield lads’ fifth album has shifted a mightily impressive 97,000 units in just two days – more than the whole of the rest of the top 20 combined.
If sales continue at the same trajectory they’re almost certain to overtake Daft Punk who notched up sales of 165,000 in a week back in May with ‘Random Access Memories’.
On Sunday Arctic Monkeys will also become the first act on an independent record label to secure five consecutive number one albums.
Despite the impressive tally, ‘AM’ is highly unlikely to top 2006’s ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ which sold a gargantuan 365,000 copies in seven days becoming the fastest selling debut album in British history.
Their 2007 follow-up ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ also fared well with 220,000 copies sold in the first week.
Elsewhere on the midweek album chart, last week’s number one The 1975’s self-titled debut has slipped to number four while Nine Inch Nails have divebombed from no.2 to number 30. Ouch.
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