AM (Arctic Monkeys album)
Publication Rank List
Consequence of Sound 45 Top 50 Albums of 2013
Digital Spy 5 Top Albums of 2013
Gazeta Wyborcza 2 10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013
Mojo 4 Mojo ' s Top 50 Albums of 2013
musicOMH 5 musicOMH ' s Top 100 Albums of 2013
NME 1 NME ' s 50 Best Albums of 2013
NME 1 NME ' s Greatest Albums of the Decade : The 2010s
PopMatters 28 The 75 Best Albums of 2013
Q 1 Q ' s 50 Albums of the Year
Rolling Stone 9 50 Best Albums of 2013
Slant Magazine 16 The 25 Best Albums of 2013
Time Out 2 50 Best Albums of 2013
Uncut 9 Uncut ' s Top 50 Albums of 2013
Reception -- Accolades
At the 2013 NME Awards , Arctic Monkeys were nominated for Best British Band . `` R U Mine ? '' was also nominated for Best Track , and won the award for Best Music Video . [ 54 ] AM was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album , [ 55 ] becoming the third Arctic Monkeys album to receive the nomination , after their debut album Whatever People Say I Am , That 's What I 'm Not , and its follow-up , Favourite Worst Nightmare . The album 's second single , `` Do I Wan na Know ? `` , won the Best Track award at the 2013 Q Awards . [ 56 ] `` Do I Wan na Know '' was also nominated as the `` Best Rock Performance '' at the 2015 Grammy Awards . [ 57 ] At the 2014 BRIT Awards , Arctic Monkeys won in the British Album of the Year and British Group categories , becoming the first band to ever `` do the double '' ( that is , win in both categories ) three times ( Coldplay and Manic Street Preachers did it twice ) . [ 58 ] NME ranked AM number 449 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , after it only being out for a month . [ 59 ] The magazine also announced its list of 50 Best Albums of 2013 , with AM taking the top spot : `` AM felt like a genuine evolution for the Monkeys , and one that was n't without risk . Its success , however , rested on the two things that had always made them special : Alex Turner 's wry way with words , and his way with a tune . '' NME classified AM 's songs as `` the tales of wasted phone calls , drunken lunges and late-night confessions . `` [ 60 ] In 2019 the album was ranked number 1 on NME 's list of Greatest Albums of the Decade . [ 61 ] AM boasted a great amount of riches on both counts , with NME writing `` AM is the album against which everything else will now be measured . `` [ 62 ] 17 music journalists of the Polish media company Agora SA ( Gazeta Wyborcza , Gazeta.pl , TOK FM ) placed AM at number two in their ranking of 10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013 , behind Arcade Fire 's Reflektor . [ 63 ] The album has been recognised as one of the bestselling vinyl albums of the decade , selling 27,000 units as of July 2015 . [ 64 ]
AM is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was produced by James Ford and co-produced by Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording in Los Angeles and Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California, and released in September 2013 through Domino. The album was promoted by the singles R U Mine?, Do I Wanna Know?, Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?, One for the Road, Arabella, and Snap Out of It. It features guest appearances by Josh Homme, Bill Ryder-Jones, and Pete Thomas. The album received critical acclaim from music critics and featured in many year-end lists as one of the best of 2013. It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album, hailed the Best Album of 2013 by NME magazine, and featured at number 449 on NMEs list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Commercially, AM has become one of Arctic Monkeys' most successful albums to date, topping charts in several countries, and reaching top ten positions in many more. In the United Kingdom, Arctic Monkeys broke a record with AM, becoming the first independent-label band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums. The album is also considered the band's breakthrough in America. The single Do I Wanna Know? was the first song by the band to enter the Billboard Hot 100. AM is also one of the UK's best-selling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 73,000 units.