The new album from Arctic Monkeys has been doing pretty well for itself, hasn't it? Over the past few days it's just about all we've heard about when it comes to music.
Well, it turns out it's not just been doing well, but amazingly - now outselling the rest of the UK Top 20 combined, according to the Official Charts Company.
Released last week on 11 May, Tranquility Base and Casino is the sixth studio album for Sheffield outfit Arctic Monkeys.
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It's also on set to be the sixth number one album for the band, with their closest competition coming from the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, which took the top spot last week.
Since its long-awaited releas,Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino has managed to rack up a whopping 66,000 combined chart sales - including 67 percent of those coming from CD and vinyl purchases, interestingly.
Naturally, the accompanying UK tour sold out long, long ago.
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The new album - their first since 2013's AM - has marked something of a departure for the Sheffield LADs, and one question people keep asking is why Alex Turner swapped his guitar for a piano for the album.
He told BBC Radio 1: "The guitar had lost its ability to give me ideas. Every time I sat with a guitar I was suspicious of where it was gonna go. I had a pretty good idea of what I might be which is completely contrary to what I felt when I sat at the piano."
Turner added to the Sydney Morning Herald: "I've written loads of songs on that guitar, but then I reached a point where I knew the types of moves I always tend to make on the guitar. So I scurried off towards the piano and started to look for ideas there."
So far it's proving fairly divisive among fans - but critics seem more or less won over.
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NME's review simply explained that it's something that rewards listeners with time, saying: "[The album] will reward deep-diving listeners - in particular those with an interest in picking apart Turner's densest and most self-aware lyrics to date.
"The album's title is a fitting one: this record feels a lot like gazing into the night sky. At first it's completely overwhelming - you'll be trying to connect the scattered dots on this initially impenetrable listen, and maybe even despairing when it doesn't all come together.
"But when the constellations show through, you'll realise that it's a product of searingly intelligent design."
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