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Monkeys do the business: debut scores record first-week sales.(Retail)
Arctic Monkeys have swept away the industry's usual January blues in spectacular fashion, achieving record-breaking sales for the opening month of the year.
The Domino-issued Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not sold 363,735 units last week and in doing so set two new landmarks: achieving the highest first-week sales for a debut album, and selling more copies in a January week than any other album in history.
Its runaway opening-week success, which was accompanied by unprecedented media coverage for a non-reality TV act's first album, has provided music retailers with a colossal boost to trading in what is usually a quiet sales month. Three other newly-issued albums by Parlophone's Richard Ashcroft, Demon's Daniel O'Donnell and Virgin's Kooks also achieved Top 10 debuts to add up to an exceptionally busy week.
"It's fantastic," says HMV's head of music Phil Penman. "Usually, at this time of year, there are generally a handful of releases by acts doing lower-level sales to achieve a decent chart profile when market volumes are lower. It's unheard of for a debut act to sell in these quantities."
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