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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (2002 – present)

Arctic Monkeys are an alternative rock band formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England in 2002 after meeting at Stocksbridge High School. The band consists of Alex Turner (vocals, guitar), Jamie ‘Cookie’ Cook (guitar), Nick O’Malley (bass) and Matt Helders (drums, vocals). Founding bassist Andy Nicholson left in 2006.

Each of the band’s first five singles I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, When the Sun Goes Down, Leave Before The Lights Come On, Brianstorm and Fluorescent Adolescent hit the UK Top Five, but their sixth single, Teddy Picker, only went Top 20 and their seventh single, Crying Lightning peaked at #12.

The band’s rise to success started in late 2004/early 2005 when demo songs which had been handed out in CD form at gigs found their way onto the internet. These demos rapidly spread among message boards and friends leading to a growing fan base for the band, and were collected on the unofficial Beneath the Boardwalk, which the band recognizes on their website. The band owe much of their success to viral buzz via the Internet, and have eschewed typical ‘commercial’ channels, including refusing to appear on the UK’s (now discontinued) Top Of The Pops music program, which was often seen as a gateway to success.

The band’s debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, held the record for the largest first week sales of a debut album in the UK (in its first week, it sold more than the rest of the Top 20 albums combined). The album sold over 360,000 copies in its first week, but lost the title in November 2007 to Leona Lewis’s album Spirit.

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1		Fluorescent Adolescent			13,944
2		I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor			12,918
3		Mardy Bum			11,111
4		When the Sun Goes Down			10,468
5		Fake Tales of San Francisco			9,860
6		Teddy Picker			9,618
7		Brianstorm			9,163
8		Dancing Shoes			8,824
9		R U Mine?			8,522
10		The View from the Afternoon			8,406
11		Crying Lightning			8,078
12		505			7,964
13		A Certain Romance			7,641
14		From The Ritz To The Rubble			7,487
15		Old Yellow Bricks			7,408

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