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After falling below the 2m level three weeks ago, for the first time in more than five years, albums sales recovered a little the following week, but stayed below 2m.

They moved back above the psychologically important mark again last week, climbing 15% week-on-week to 2.27m, thanks largely to the 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 31,000.

The Arctic Monkeys album's sales included nearly 9,800 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, while first single Brianstorm dipped 2-7 on physical and download sales of 13,000, only two download tracks made the Top 75 - Fluorescent Adolescent leading the way at number 60 on sales of nearly 2,000, while 505 scraped in at number 74 on sales of about 1,300.

Press speculation suggested that the group would register the ...