Arcade Fire, shown performing in Montreal, has released a third album, The Suburbs, which has taken the top spot on charts in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

Montreal indie rock band Arcade Fire has nabbed the No. 1 spot on Canadian and U.S. charts with its third album, The Suburbs, which was released in North America last week.

The band's label, Merge Records, announced the news on Twitter.

This past weekend, The Suburbs took first place on the British charts.

The Canadian band knocked Eminem's Recovery from first place in all three countries.

The Suburbs sold 31,000 copies in its first week in Canada, 156,000 in the U.S. and 61,000 in Britain.

A feature in Rolling Stone's Aug. 19 issue described The Suburbs as the band's "best album, a definitive goodbye-to-indie fusion of believable angst and mass-appeal poise."

It called Arcade Fire "the biggest mainstream success to emerge from the indie-rock world this decade, a North American equivalent of Radiohead in critical respect and mounting commercial clout."

Arcade Fire's second album, the 2007 Neon Bible, hit No. 1 in Canada but placed No. 2 in the U.S. and Britain.

It was awarded the 2008 Juno for alternative album of the year.

Neon Bible and the band's debut album, Funeral, were both nominated for best alternative music Grammy Awards.

With files from The Canadian Press