Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut studio album by the English
rock band
Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006. The album surpassed
Elastica's
self-titled album to become the fastest selling debut album in British music history, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band. It has since gone quintuple
platinum in the UK.