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Post by oscillations. on Apr 24, 2007 15:26:35 GMT -5
Their debut did more than that. I think they can hit 40k or something close.
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 24, 2007 16:33:55 GMT -5
I got my copy today at Target... and I also went ahead and got Amy's CD as well....
go get 'em boys!!
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 25, 2007 16:39:31 GMT -5
looks my intitial estimate might not be far off after all: WHAT A DIFFERENCE ONE DAYS MAKE: Jive/ZLG R&B singer Joe appears to be the top debut this week, with one-day retail sales reports pegging him at 90k give or take, probably enough to snare the #2 slot behind Avril Lavigne's second week. Domino’s Arctic Monkeys, currently taking the U.K. by storm with first-week sales that could hit 250k, are doing less well here, with a possible total of 50k, which could place them in the Top 5 on Tuesday’s Album Sales chart. Orders have been solid at iTunes, where they are now in the Top 5. The market was up by 1.3% this week, down nearly 11% vs. same week last year and now down more than 16.5% for the year-to-date. Should retailers something to talk about besides Sanjaya's hair when NARM convenes in Chicago this Sunday. (4/25p)
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 25, 2007 18:11:07 GMT -5
I am really loving this album..........I say there may be only 1, maybe 2 fillers, which are tacked somewhere in the middle, with the album having an awesome beginning and end.....
505 is such an awesome album closer....
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 25, 2007 19:12:01 GMT -5
This album just confirms what I already knew from their debut: what sets them apart from an awful lot of Brit indie bands nowadays is the rhythmic section. Because, contrary to the majority of them, this is a rhythmic section that actually is there for more than just to mark the pace. Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders play an important part in this band's dynamics. If one wants to look for the hip-hop and dance music elements Alex Turner enthuses so much about their music, look no further than them two, and the loose, limb way how they make the rhythms flow. And if there's one thing History has taught is how the best white-bread guitar bands (and the British ones, specifically) are the ones whom had rhythmic sections whose influences were most directly absorbed from actually listening to some or all sorts of Black Pop. These two did. And fortunately it shows.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 26, 2007 7:22:28 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys new songs dominate UK singles chartEntire album enters chart individually Arctic Monkeys are set to have multiple chart entries on the singles charts, due to changes in the chart. As previously reported, changes in the singles chart allowed any song purchased online to be counted towards the rundown. The first chart where this took place occurred on January 7. According to the midweek chart, the band are not only at Number Five with officially released single 'Brianstorm' but the entirety of their second album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' has entered the singles chart;s top 150. The band are at Number 47 with 'Fluorescent Adolescent', at Number 57 with '505', Number 63 with 'Teddy Picker', Number 64 with 'Balaclava', Number 67 with 'D Is For Dangerous', Number 70 with 'Old Yellow Bricks', Number 71 with 'This House Is A Circus', Number 72 with 'Do Me A Favour', Number 74 with 'Only Ones Who Know', Number 77 with 'The Bad Thing', Number 78 with 'Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend' and Number 114 with 'If You Were There, Beware'. The band are also set to top the album charts with 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' knocking Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing' off the top spot.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 26, 2007 15:28:59 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'(Thursday April 26, 2007 6:26 PM ) Released on 23/04/07 Label: Domino Arctic Monkeys' debut, "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not", was a timely release. The Libertines had only just combusted as Pete Doherty's ego looked more and more to fame and celebrity to plug the gaps once filled by a legion of young fans. As a generation was left hungry for free MP3s and impromptu performances, The Monkeys obliged, to a degree. The press lazily tagged them the 'first MySpace phenomenon' and they shifted 100,000 in their first day, making their record the UK's fastest selling debut ever. Fast-forward to 2007 and "Favourite Worst Nightmare" falls well short on that result delivering a relatively humble but nonetheless impressive 60,000. Did 40,000 Arctic Monkeys fans forget to get out of bed on Monday? Well, they probably just moved on as the hype shifted elsewhere. Oddly though, it may just be the right time for the cynical and hype-weary to sit up and pay attention. Single and album opener, "Brianstorm", actually invites that cliché beloved of music writers, namely that this really is quite some blistering opening salvo. It brands the listener's brain with the notion this will be neither a simple retread of the first record, nor a 'difficult' second album but a focussed, energised consolidation of strengths: the same but MUCH more. From therein little is done to discourage that impression. The opening trio of tracks leading to irrepressible festival anthem-to-be, "Fluorescent Adolescent", are nothing out of the ordinary. That is, if you're unmoved by their spectacularly taught performance, painted in vivid colours by producer James Ford, and the way in which Matt Helder's splendid drumming keeps the album's heavier sound from sinking into sludge with inventive rhythms and unexpected fills. As the record enters its second half a fascinating new vista opens in the band's songwriting: "Only Ones Who Knew" adds wonderfully affecting balladry to their CV and "505" delivers a yearning, honest break-up song to close the album in defiantly emotional tone. If you were aching to dismiss Alex Turner as a master only of world-weary cynicism and colloquial narrative, there goes your opportunity. His songs have grown with experience and yet his imagination remains mercifully unhindered by the more mundane aspects of being in a successful rock band. Then there's "If You Were There, Beware", which suggests they've been spending some quality time with Queens Of The Stone Age on the tour bus. Kicking-off in gonzo surf territory, Jamie Cook proceeds to mangle sounds worthy of Lightning Bolt from his guitar. Arctic Monkeys remain as defiantly unstylish as their name suggests; their artwork, logos and song titles all deceptively clumsy. Yet, beneath this fallibility - which surely does nothing to hinder their adoption as the Oasis-banishing band of the people - there lurks a group rapidly rising to the occasion. At every turn this record astonishes with its accomplishment and whilst the band continue to tread this beautiful line between youthful naiveté, growing musical literacy and emotional depth, they remain one of our moribund chart's few true great promises. by James Poletti
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Post by lullaby on Apr 26, 2007 17:09:27 GMT -5
Arctic monkeys are my favourite band of the past decade with the exception of the dixie chicks
Not a day goes by without a bash of i bet you look good on the dancefloor ....
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Post by busyboy on Apr 29, 2007 13:34:35 GMT -5
It's official, now we only need the figures... Arctic Monkeys crash into the chart 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is Number One Arctic Monkeys have dominated the UK chart following the release of their second album. 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' is a new entry at number one, but changes in chart rules allow any song purchased online to be counted towards the singles rundown too. The band are not only at Number Seven with officially released single 'Brianstorm' - but all week the entirety of their second album has been in the singles chart's top 150. HMV's chart expert Gennaro Castaldo told NME.COM: "It's without doubt one of the year's blockbuster releases. Let's face it, it was always going to be pretty impossible to match or even beat the phenomenal week one sales of 'Whatever People Say I Am...', because that was such a huge media story at the time - people were buying it without even being fans or knowing that much about their music; they were just responding to all the hype. "But this time people are buying it on the strength of the band's music and not the hype. This is a proper measure of the band's success and near-iconic status in the Indie Rock hierarchy."
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 29, 2007 13:50:29 GMT -5
I hope it's upwards of 300k, or maybe even higher than the debut.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 29, 2007 13:52:42 GMT -5
The hype is still incredible, but likely all the songs charting individually have diminished its impact as an album.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 29, 2007 14:00:18 GMT -5
Doubt it. The #s are going to be massive no matter what.
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Post by eljefro on Apr 29, 2007 17:48:56 GMT -5
I bought the last copy at Borders today.
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Post by WotUNeed on Apr 29, 2007 19:06:25 GMT -5
I bought the last copy at Borders today. And I bought one of only a few remaining at FYE a few days ago. I'm pleased that this is having decent sales in the States. And just wow :o at the impact in the UK. Can't wait to see the official numbers.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 30, 2007 1:25:48 GMT -5
They're saying 230k or so in the UK. Not official yet. I hoped for more, but still excellent.
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Post by busyboy on Apr 30, 2007 5:45:18 GMT -5
From Music Week:
Arctic Monkeys, whose second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare sold 227,922 copies to debut at number one. That's more than the rest of the Top 10 combined, and over seven times as many as Mark Ronson's Version, which holds second place with sales of 31,402.
Arctic Monkeys album's sales included 9,788 downloads but the tracks from the album were also available individually for download, and thus eligible for the singles chart.
Although they made an en masse invasion of the Top 75 on midweek sales flashes, the impact of the majority of the tracks - and those from the Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - diminished as the week wore on, with the result that, in the final chart, while first single Brianstorm dipped 2-7 on physical and download sales of 13,155, only two download tracks made the Top 75 - Fluorescent Adolescent leading the way at number 60 on sales of 1,961, while 505 scraped in at number 74 on sales of 1,329.
Press speculation suggested that the group would register the highest ever tally of simultaneous Top 100 hits but they ended up with only five - the three named above plus Teddy Picker (number 93, 1,096 sales) and Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend, the non-album b-side of Brianstorm (down 77-96, 1,093 sales).
They had a further 12 songs in the bottom half of the Top 200 for an overall tally of 17 entries, compared to the Beatles' record tally of 23 in the Top 100 achieved in 1976, when Yesterday was released as a single for the first time, and the remainder of their singles catalogue was reactivated.
Arctic Monkeys made a sensational debut on the album chart in February 2006, when Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, stormed to number one on first week sales of 363,735 - the highest ever for a debut album, and the fifth highest first week tally in history, behind Oasis's Be Here Now, Coldplay's X&Y, Dido's Life For Rent and Robbie Williams' Intensive Care. Number one for four weeks, it has sold 1,159,000 copies to date.
The 17 singles on the UK Top 200 (from UKMix):
2 ~ 7 ~ BRIANSTORM ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ RUG254 ~ 4 ## ~ 60 ~ FLUORESCENT ADOLESCENT ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700067 ~ 1 ## ~ 74 ~ 505 ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700074 ~ 1 ## ~ 93 ~ TEDDY PICKER ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700064 ~ 1 77 ~ 96 ~ TEMPTATION GREETS YOU LIKE YOUR NAUGHTY ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700062 ~ 2 ## ~ 104 ~ BALACLAVA ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700066 ~ 1 109 ~ 105 ~ I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ RUG212CD ~ 66 ## ~ 116 ~ D IS FOR DANGEROUS ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700065 ~ 1 ## ~ 122 ~ OLD YELLOW BRICKS ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700073 ~ 1 ## ~ 127 ~ DO ME A FAVOUR ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700069 ~ 1 ## ~ 130 ~ ONLY ONES WHO KNOW ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700068 ~ 1 ## ~ 132 ~ THIS HOUSE IS A CIRCUS ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700070 ~ 1 ## ~ 140 ~ THE BAD THING ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700072 ~ 1 114 ~ 160 ~ WHAT IF YOU WERE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700063 ~ 2 166 ~ 176 ~ LEAVE BEFORE THE LIGHTS COME ON ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ RUG236CD ~ 23 124 ~ 180 ~ IF YOU FOUND THIS IT'S PROBABLY TOO LATE ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700060 ~ 2 ## ~ 189 ~ IF YOU WERE THERE BEWARE ~ ARCTIC MONKEYS ~ DOMINO RECORDINGS ~ GBCEL0700071 ~ 1
Congratulations, especially because all of this comes with an amazing album!
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 30, 2007 5:47:32 GMT -5
Fucking ace.
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 30, 2007 5:49:26 GMT -5
Yep, they dominate Britain, alright. But the real challenge now is for them to actually be able to spread a little of that domination outside Britain.
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Post by oscillations. on Apr 30, 2007 5:52:46 GMT -5
If they do sell 50k here, that's good enough for me. I guess the most important thing to note is that its #1 here in this epicenter of culture called Westfield. They couldn't keep them on the shelves. Meanwhile, Year Zero has crossed the counter under a dozen times (and of one of those purchases was mine).
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 30, 2007 6:09:58 GMT -5
Great. Except you forget that the epicenter of culture is a place called Sacavém, which doesn't have a record store to speak of.
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Post by oscillations. on May 1, 2007 9:24:49 GMT -5
They will be on Conan O'Brien tonight.
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Post by joker on May 1, 2007 15:37:01 GMT -5
Missed it. Oh well, it'll turn up on YouTube or somewhere soon enough.
Still hopin' they manage 50k this week.
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Post by oscillations. on May 1, 2007 18:00:46 GMT -5
You didn't miss it. It's tonight at 12:30. ;)
They come in at #7 with about 45k. That's great, but somehow that promise of a Top 5 position registers more excitement. Maybe on BB200? Anyway, they did good. They did better than good. They did...gooder.
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Post by WotUNeed on May 1, 2007 18:09:09 GMT -5
You didn't miss it. It's tonight at 12:30. ;) No, they were on the episode of Conan that already aired. I watched - a solid performance from them.
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Post by oscillations. on May 1, 2007 18:12:28 GMT -5
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Post by joker on May 1, 2007 18:17:46 GMT -5
Damn, got my hopes up lol j/k.
The numbers are in from HITS, not bad at all:
-- 7 ARCTIC MONKEYS DOMINO 44,738 -- FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE
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Post by areyoureadytojump on May 2, 2007 10:22:57 GMT -5
Billboard.com:
British rock troupe Arctic Monkeys enters the chart with their sophomore set "Favourite Worst Nightmare" at No. 7. The Domino album moved 44,000 units, a significant increase from the No. 24 / 34,000 that greeted last year's "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not." Sales for "Worst Nightmare" were fueled in part by the album's first single, "Brianstorm," which sits on top of the Hot Singles Sales tally.
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Post by roentgenizdat on May 2, 2007 15:51:51 GMT -5
05/12: NEW 7 ARCTIC MONKEYS FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE 44,149 999 156 44,314
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Post by joker on May 3, 2007 13:41:34 GMT -5
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Post by joker on May 8, 2007 10:07:42 GMT -5
Monkeys get on with itNew album shows no `sophomore angst' and a third is partly writtenMay 08, 2007 04:30 AM Ben Rayner Pop Music CriticA frantic energy seems to permeate everything to do with the Arctic Monkeys – their music, their initial, Internet-borne rush to notoriety two years ago, the pace of their record sales – so it would have been rather out of character for the band to approach its second album mired in the sophomore anguish so typical of "overnight" rock stars. No, Favourite Worst Nightmare arrived last month slightly more than a year after the Sheffield youngsters' hit debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and accompanied by none of the usual tales of scrapped studio sessions, writer's block and torturous experiments in artistic self-reinvention. Even a switch in bass players, to new kid Nick O'Malley, whipped past without a second thought. "We like making albums and we like being in the studio, so we were excited to make another one, really," says front man Alex Turner. "At least people want another one." That's putting it mildly. While its first-week U.K. sales didn't quite match the record-setting 360,000 copies notched by Whatever in February 2006, Favourite Worst Nightmare blasted onto the top of the U.K. charts upon release two weeks ago with sales of more than 220,000 units. Every track on the record also found its way onto the U.K. singles chart thanks to some recent changes in how digital downloads are stirred into the rankings. However dense and vivid a slice-of-life wordsmith he might be on the Monkeys' lyric sheets, though, Turner in conversation could be considered doubly laconic, given that the requisite Brit-pop-star detachment is exacerbated by his mere 21 years of age. His disinterest in talking about himself, in fact, is on par with that of The Streets' Mike Skinner, another renowned young lyricist to whom Turner is occasionally compared. Ambling about San Francisco while enjoying a strawberry/banana smoothie, he's reluctant to lay claim to the very real place in pop history the Monkeys now occupy by taking a route to success that no record-company boardroom would have dared endorse two years ago: by giving away CDs for free and letting fans upload their music willy-nilly to the Net. According to conventional indie wisdom, they should have crashed and burned at the cash registers. "Obviously, I've had a wonderful time," he says diffidently, "but we're not living what everyone else sees in, like, magazines or stories or whatever. We don't live our lives through magazines. It's more like (we see) things immediately in front of us.... The life in front of me, I just get on with." It was, thus, quite easy for the Monkeys to get on with the business of making another album after months of relentless touring for Whatever wrapped up last year. They'd been stockpiling songs the whole time, says Turner, and the simple fact that the quartet had played hundreds of shows in a very short period of time determined the direction the album would take. "Naturally, I think, we just got a bit heavier," he says. "Like, when we'd be playing during sound checks, we got where we wanted to make a bit more racket, more noise and the riffs were a lot more fun to play. We gravitated towards being a bit more `full-on' in the songs. There was no game plan. We just sort of went in with what we had and tried to figure it out along the way." Favourite Worst Nightmare adheres closely to the rambunctious, pubby roil of its predecessor, albeit with more ambitious, drawn-out arrangements that suggest the band is just learning to make the best of its daunting playing abilities. As Alexis Petridis commented recently in The Guardian: "If you removed everything from the album except Matt Helders' drumming, it would still be a pretty gripping listen." If the songs don't yet rise to the extraordinary level of Turner's prose, there's plenty of time left to catch up. Indeed, Turner has only just begun to tour the new record – the Monkeys play a sold-out show at Kool Haus on Friday night – and he's thinking about the next. "That's all I ever think about a lot of the time, new songs and new stuff," he says. "It's never been too much of a struggle. Sometimes you can't come up with stuff, obviously, but I really do like doing it. It's only been out a couple of weeks now, the record, but already I've written, like, six or seven songs."
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