In its first week of release the album sold 227,993 copies, emulating Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not in going straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart , albeit selling 130,000 copies fewer than their record-breaking debut. The first two singles from the album “Brianstorm” and “Fluorescent Adolescent” were both UK Top Hits. Favourite Worst Nightmare ‘ s first day sales of 85,000 outsold the rest of the Top 20 combined, while all twelve tracks from the album entered the top 200 of the UK singles chart in their own right. By September 2013 the album has sold 821,128 copies in UK and has since gone 3× platinum by 2018. In the USA , the album debuted at number seven, selling around 44,000 copies in its first week.
In its first week of release the album sold 227,993 copies, emulating
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