Arctic Monkeys

The Arctic Monkey’s are an indie rock band formerly known as The Death Ramps from Sheffield, England. The band is made up of Alex Turner on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Cook on guitar, Nick O’Malley on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Matt Helders on drums and backing vocals. The band formed in 2002 and they have released a total of five studio albums and have won seven Brit Awards and have been nominated for three Grammy’s.  They were signed to Domino Records in June 2005 and have been with them throughout their career.  They originally became popular on the original social media site MySpace which is where most of their fanbase originated.

Arctic Monkeys debuted their first studio album in 2006 and it was called Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not which became the fastest debuting album in UK history with 363,735 copies in its first week alone. Shortly after their debut release Arctic Monkey’s album was declared the “fifth greatest British album of all time,” by NME magazine (UK).

Shortly after their debut, AM released a 5 track EP called Who the F@#! Are Arctic Monkeys? Followed by more touring of the UK and they even came to North America to tour. In April of 2007 the band released their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare which debuted at number 1 on the UK charts. Also, all 12 of their tracks made it onto the UK Top 200.

The band set off on tour once again and toured for nearly the rest of the year. After their touring, the band went on a short hiatus as Alex Turner recorded and toured with his side project. The band was back again and in fall of 2008 they came out of their hiatus to write and record their third album, Humbug. Humbug wasn’t released until August of 2009 where it debuted at number one yet again. They began the Humbug Tour and even headlined the Reading and Leeds Festival in 2009. They continued to tour until April 2010 before they started writing again for their fourth album, Suck It and See, which debuted once again at number one in June of 2011. 

After a bout of touring after Suck It and See, they flew under the radar until the release of album number fives lead single R U Mine? hit radio stations in early 2012. Later that June the band embarked on their AM Tour and released that the title of their new album would in fact be AM. The following September the band released AM and you guessed it, it released at number one on the UK charts once again.

The band has been rolling off the success of their fifth album and haven’t announced anything about new music yet, but I’m excited to see what they have in store. Their music is still played on rock stations after the 2+ years after their release.