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Arctic Monkeys

A British rock band formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. The band's first record became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history. The ensemble won seven Brit Awards, twice becoming the best group and three times for best album of the year. The quartet was nominated for a Grammy Award twice. In 2006, the collective became a winner of the Mercury Prize, an award given for the best album of the UK and Ireland, and was also nominated for this prize in 2007 and 2013. In 2007 and 2013, the band was a headliner of the Glastonbury festival. Such success, considering the band members’ skeptical attitude toward the music industry and their reluctance to sign a contract with a major label, is largely explained by the active distribution of their demos by fans via the Internet, in particular, through P2P and social networks. Arctic Monkeys became one of the first bands to achieve major success without the support of traditional media such as radio and television, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of this method of promoting new music. Currently, the band releases recordings on the independent label Domino Records.