'' is the debut album by
Sheffield band
Arctic Monkeys , released on
23 January 2006 . Recorded at Chapel Studios,
Lincolnshire , before the band's first
World Tour , the album became the fastest selling debut album in the
UK since records began, selling over 360,000 copies in its first week. It has since gone triple platinum in the UK
1, and won the
2006 Mercury Prize 2.
The album includes both tracks from the band's original
EP , ''
Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys '', as well as their first two singles and
UK Number Ones , "
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor " and "
When The Sun Goes Down ".
The original release date was scheduled as
30 January 2006 , but was brought forward to
23 January 2006 due to ''"high demand"''. Although the same was done with ''
Franz Ferdinand '', there remains continued speculation that the move was an attempt to counter the effects of the album's leak onto online
File-sharing sites.
3 Although many of the tracks featured on the album were freely available to download in early 2005 from uploaded demo CDs given out by the band, the re-recorded album versions had also been leaked onto the internet by December 2005.
On the first day of its release, the album became the fastest selling debut rock album in British history, selling just under 120,000 copies. By the end of the week, the album had sold 363,735 copies - more than the rest of the Top 20 combined and making it the overall fastest selling debut album in British history.
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