Arctic Monkeys are all set to have the fastest selling new release of the year, though second long player 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' isn't likely to outsell the band's debut. The new album sold 85,000 copies on Monday, and HMV reckon the album should easily pass the 151,000 copies sold by Kaiser Chiefs during the first week of sale of their album 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob'. But it is unlikely to top the massive 360,000 units 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' sold in its first week of sale last year - that album shifting 118,501 on its first day of sale.
All of which isn't that interesting I know - until, that is, you throw in a quote from HMV chart chief Gennaro Castaldo. Here it is: "It was always going to be next to impossible to match or beat the phenomenal day-one sales of 'Whatever People Say I Am...' which proved to be one of the media stories of 2006. But coming this close is a fantastic result, which underlines the band's status as the UK's number rock act. People are buying this album not because of any media hype, but because it's had great reviews and they can't wait to hear it".