Arctic Monkeys look set to continue their chart dominance with a sixth UK Number 1 album.

The Sheffield-based band have topped the charts with their five previous albums and look set to match the success with Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

The group are currently outselling the rest of the Top 20 combined since dropping their newest release last Friday, which has accumulated 66,000 combined chart sales in three days.

Their previous records also look set to challenge the Top 10 with 2013’s AM up 29 places to Number 11, their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not up 30 positions to Number 20 and their sophomore release Favourite Worst Nightmare at Number 40 after scaling 71 places.

The band, made up of Alex Turner, Matt Helders, Jamie Cook and Nick O'Malley divided fans with the new album after taking a marked departure from their familiar sound.

The piano-led concept album left some calling for the return of guitar anthems, with one branding the album “extremely disappointing”.

One fan tweeted: “I feel like I would be able to fall asleep listening to this new Arctic Monkeys album. Not because it’s relaxing or anything, it’s just so boring.”

Arctic Monkeys: Ranking the band’s six albums from worst to best 6 show all Arctic Monkeys: Ranking the band’s six albums from worst to best 1/6 6. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino After taking the music world by the scruff of the neck with the thunderously successful AM, Arctic Monkeys undergo their biggest reinvention yet on Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino. Here, Alex Turner and co swap their signature leather jackets for comfortable linen slacks, loosening up their approach with a collection of lounge rock. Turner’s observations are as whipsmart and wryly humorous as ever. Sadly though, it’s not enough to sustain an album of largely forgettable songs which lack focus and lapse into the realms of self-indulgence far too frequently. “So I tried to write a song to make you blush, but I have a feeling that the whole thing may well just end up too clever for its own good,” Turner sings on the meandering Science Fiction, his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek. It’s another example of witty affectation failing to cover up precious little substance on album number six. 2/6 5. Favourite Worst Nightmare The band followed up their enormously successful debut with the more sonically expansive and multi-faceted album Favourite Worst Nightmare. Standouts Brianstorm and Fluorescent Adolescent remain crowd pleasing moments, while excellent tracks Teddy Picker, This House is a Circus and Do Me a Favour remain some of the most underrated in the band’s catalogue. It might have been slightly less impactful than their inspired debut but Turner’s songwriting certainly diversified on album number two. The woozy balladry of The Only Ones Who Know and the propulsive, expansive 505 gave an indication of what was to come, adding new dimensions to the band’s output. 3/6 4. Suck It and See Arctic Monkeys returned in 2011 with a collection of breezy indie pop, which took some by surprise after the harder-hitting desert rock of third album Humbug. From the yearning She’s Thunderstorms to the sun-drenched closer That’s Where You’re Wrong, the album saw Turner embrace the role of love-struck crooner like never before. It’d be fair to say Suck It and See suffered a little from a lack of killer singles and standout moments. However, lyrically Turner was at the top of his game, veering from wonderfully nonsensical (Library Pictures) to profound (Piledriver Waltz) and throughout showcasing his poetic delivery with coquettish charm. 4/6 3. AM From the stadium-sized opening riff of Do I Wanna Know? to the glam metal stomp of Arabella, everything about AM is pure blockbuster. The Sheffield group turned up the spectacle and took their popularity to new realms on album five, with killer singles R U Mine? and Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? proving standout moments. The band’s new direction couldn’t have been further removed from the introspective Suck It and See and showed the band’s fine knack for reinvention. It’s arguably let down a little by middling tracks I Want It All and Mad Sounds, but there’s no doubt that AM marks one of the band’s finest moments. 5/6 2. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not became the fastest selling debut album in British music history back in 2006, launching the four skinny teenagers from Sheffield to the realms of mega stardom at the age of just 20. The hype was totally justified. Few UK albums of recent times have caught music fans’ imaginations in the same way as the band’s debut album, which features some of the most expressive rock music of the past 20 years. Fan favourites Mardy Bum, Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor and When The Sun Goes Down still rank among the band’s finest tracks. The album is full of evocative storytelling far beyond the band’s years too, with Turner regaling fans with tales of taxi-rank scrapes and offering up perceptive social commentary on tracks like A Certain Romance. It was the start of great things to come. 6/6 1. Humbug After establishing themselves as the biggest band in the UK Arctic Monkeys threw fans a real curveball on Humbug, ditching the spiky indie which had paid such dividends on albums one and two. The result was their most accomplished collection of tracks yet, which captured the sound of a band at the peak of their creative powers. Josh Homme proved an inspired choice of producer, with the Queens of the Stone Age frontman adding muscle and menace to the band’s sound. Opening tracks My Propellor, Crying Lightning and Dangerous Animals are as sordid as they are spectacular, greeting listeners wide eyed-glee and a demented Cheshire-cat grin. However, the album’s standout moment comes in the form of Cornerstone, which is the most awe-inspiring and enigmatic track the band have ever put to record. It might have proved divisive upon release but Humbug remains the band’s most cohesive and assured album to date. 1/6 6. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino After taking the music world by the scruff of the neck with the thunderously successful AM, Arctic Monkeys undergo their biggest reinvention yet on Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino. Here, Alex Turner and co swap their signature leather jackets for comfortable linen slacks, loosening up their approach with a collection of lounge rock. Turner’s observations are as whipsmart and wryly humorous as ever. Sadly though, it’s not enough to sustain an album of largely forgettable songs which lack focus and lapse into the realms of self-indulgence far too frequently. “So I tried to write a song to make you blush, but I have a feeling that the whole thing may well just end up too clever for its own good,” Turner sings on the meandering Science Fiction, his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek. It’s another example of witty affectation failing to cover up precious little substance on album number six. 2/6 5. Favourite Worst Nightmare The band followed up their enormously successful debut with the more sonically expansive and multi-faceted album Favourite Worst Nightmare. Standouts Brianstorm and Fluorescent Adolescent remain crowd pleasing moments, while excellent tracks Teddy Picker, This House is a Circus and Do Me a Favour remain some of the most underrated in the band’s catalogue. It might have been slightly less impactful than their inspired debut but Turner’s songwriting certainly diversified on album number two. The woozy balladry of The Only Ones Who Know and the propulsive, expansive 505 gave an indication of what was to come, adding new dimensions to the band’s output. 3/6 4. Suck It and See Arctic Monkeys returned in 2011 with a collection of breezy indie pop, which took some by surprise after the harder-hitting desert rock of third album Humbug. From the yearning She’s Thunderstorms to the sun-drenched closer That’s Where You’re Wrong, the album saw Turner embrace the role of love-struck crooner like never before. It’d be fair to say Suck It and See suffered a little from a lack of killer singles and standout moments. However, lyrically Turner was at the top of his game, veering from wonderfully nonsensical (Library Pictures) to profound (Piledriver Waltz) and throughout showcasing his poetic delivery with coquettish charm. 4/6 3. AM From the stadium-sized opening riff of Do I Wanna Know? to the glam metal stomp of Arabella, everything about AM is pure blockbuster. The Sheffield group turned up the spectacle and took their popularity to new realms on album five, with killer singles R U Mine? and Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? proving standout moments. The band’s new direction couldn’t have been further removed from the introspective Suck It and See and showed the band’s fine knack for reinvention. It’s arguably let down a little by middling tracks I Want It All and Mad Sounds, but there’s no doubt that AM marks one of the band’s finest moments. 5/6 2. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not became the fastest selling debut album in British music history back in 2006, launching the four skinny teenagers from Sheffield to the realms of mega stardom at the age of just 20. The hype was totally justified. Few UK albums of recent times have caught music fans’ imaginations in the same way as the band’s debut album, which features some of the most expressive rock music of the past 20 years. Fan favourites Mardy Bum, Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor and When The Sun Goes Down still rank among the band’s finest tracks. The album is full of evocative storytelling far beyond the band’s years too, with Turner regaling fans with tales of taxi-rank scrapes and offering up perceptive social commentary on tracks like A Certain Romance. It was the start of great things to come. 6/6 1. Humbug After establishing themselves as the biggest band in the UK Arctic Monkeys threw fans a real curveball on Humbug, ditching the spiky indie which had paid such dividends on albums one and two. The result was their most accomplished collection of tracks yet, which captured the sound of a band at the peak of their creative powers. Josh Homme proved an inspired choice of producer, with the Queens of the Stone Age frontman adding muscle and menace to the band’s sound. Opening tracks My Propellor, Crying Lightning and Dangerous Animals are as sordid as they are spectacular, greeting listeners wide eyed-glee and a demented Cheshire-cat grin. However, the album’s standout moment comes in the form of Cornerstone, which is the most awe-inspiring and enigmatic track the band have ever put to record. It might have proved divisive upon release but Humbug remains the band’s most cohesive and assured album to date.

Another wrote: “Waiting for Arctic Monkeys to confirm they dropped a steady album as a joke, then release an album of bangers.”

Others loved the change of direction with one tweeting: “Really digging the new album from Arctic Monkeys, feels so mature and I love the concept and the flow of the album.”

The group will tour the new album across the UK in September. Tickets went on sale last month and were being touted on Viagogo for as much as £4,000 within minutes.