The quartet, whose sixth album ‘AM’ just topped the UK charts and landed on the shortlist for the 2013 Mercury Prize – losing out to the unexpected victory of James Blake’s ‘Overgrown’ – are the first act announced for the Scottish music festival, set to take place July 11-13 next year.

Geoff Ellis, Festival Director for T in the Park, exclaimed:

‘We’re thrilled to announce Arctic Monkeys as our first headliners for T In The Park 2014. After this year’s fantastic 20th year celebrations, we asked our audience who they’d like to see at next year’s festival and Arctic Monkeys came top of the poll, so we’re really pleased to be able to confirm them for T In The Park’.

Arctic Monkeys are one of the UK’s most sought after festival performers – having headlined Glastonbury this summer, as well as playing top slots at V Festival, Reading and Leeds. This will be their third headline set at T in the Park, having closed the main stage in 2007 and 2011.

T in the Park celebrated its 20^th anniversary this July, with over 80, 000 punters gathering for a bill topped by The Killers, Rihanna and Mumford and Sons.