The million-selling debut album from the fresh-faced quartet has also gone in at number 24 in America's Billboard chart making it the highest entry for an independent guitar record in US chart history.
The album Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not has made the top 10 of most European countries and set the band up for a forthcoming world tour in which most dates sold out in hours.
Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Andy Nicholson and Matt Helders, from High Green and Hillsborough, head for America next week and a series of shows on the east and west coasts.
Their trip will include a performance on the famous Saturday Night Live TV show and a New York gig where A-list celebrities including Hollywood star Liv Tyler have been clamouring for tickets.
The Brit Award winners then head off to Japan for three sold out shows, including a 2,800-capacity gig in Tokyo before returning to Europe for dates ahead of UK festivals including Oxygen, in Ireland, and Scotland's T In The Park, where they play the main stage just ahead of The Who and The Strokes.
In Texas the Arctics will be one of three Sheffield bands playing the influential SXSW music festival, a launchpad for the wider career of many bands.
Punky trio Bromheads Jacket and Hillsborough outfit Harrisons are also there, but Arctics manager Geoff Barradale revealed his lads nearly didn't get the go ahead when the chief of police in Austin tried to pull the event over safety concerns.
"He tried to refuse us the right to play there and wanted us to give in and play an aircraft hanger of a venue," he said. "So we've had to draft in extra security."
The manager also told The Star View From The Afternoon will be the band's next single, but with "one or two surprises".