Turner and Kane's Last Shadow Puppets wrestle top spot from Kooks.

For the third time already in 2008, there is an indie release at number one on the artist albums chart.

In January, the Beggars Group's XL Recordings label topped the chart with Radiohead's In Rainbows. The following month, the same company was back on top, thanks to Adele's debut album 19.

Now it is the turn of Domino Recordings to lead the survey, courtesy of The Last Shadow Puppets' debut album, The Age Of Understatement, which sold 51,186 copies last week to remove The Kooks' Konk from the summit.

The album's success comes a week after the same act's debut single, also called The Age Of Understatement, reached number nine.

It is the fourth Domino Recordings album to reach number one since the label's inception in 1993, following Franz Ferdinand's 2005 album You Could Have It So Much Better, Arctic Monkeys' 2006 debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and their 2007 follow-up, Favourite Worst Nightmare.

The Last Shadow Puppets are a duo made up of Arctic Monkeys' vocalist Alex Turner and Miles Kane of The Rascals. Its first-week sales are significantly less than those of Whatever People Say I Am... (363,812) and Favourite Worst Nightmare (227,922) but are probably greater than The Rascals' first album, Rascalize will sell in its week of release next month.

The Kooks' Konk suffers a 56% dip in sales to 28,818 copies, and falls to number 2 as a result. Meanwhile, Leona Lewis continues to benefit from the press coverage of her US success, which generates a further 28,084 sales for Spirit, which moves 2-3.