Sam's Town
Encyclopedia
Band
- Brandon FlowersBrandon FlowersBrandon Richard Flowers is an American musician, best known as the frontman of the Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers. He has also released a solo album titled Flamingo.-Early life:...
– lead vocals, keyboards, bass (on For Reasons UnknownFor Reasons Unknown"For Reasons Unknown" is a song by Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers and was written by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers. It is the fifth track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006...
) - Dave KeuningDave KeuningDavid Brent Keuning better known as Dave Keuning is a founding member of the American alternative rock band The Killers. He is the band's lead guitarist and backup vocalist.-Personal life:Keuning was born and brought up in Pella, Iowa...
– guitar, background vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists... - Mark StoermerMark StoermerMark Stoermer is an American musician, best known for being the bassist for alternative rock band The Killers, in 2011 he released his debut solo album Another Life.-Personal life:...
– bass, background vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
, guitar (on For Reasons UnknownFor Reasons Unknown"For Reasons Unknown" is a song by Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers and was written by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers. It is the fifth track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006...
) - Ronnie Vannucci – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
- Adrina Hanson – strings
- Maryam Haddad – strings
- Tristan Moyer – strings
- Tommy Marth – saxophone
- Neeraj Khajanchi – trombone
- Corlene Byrd – background vocals
- Louis XIVLouis XIV (band)Louis XIV was an American rock band from San Diego, California.-Beginnings: :Lead singer/guitarist Jason Hill, guitarist Brian Karscig, and drummer Mark Maigaard formed the group in April 2003 while living in Paris, France. Bassist James Armbrust soon joined after.Louis XIV, the band's first album,...
– background vocals - Ted SablayTed SablayTed Sablay is an American guitar player and keyboardist. He was a touring member of The Killers on their 2006-2007 Sam's Town tour and played piano on "Romeo and Juliet" on the band's compilation album Sawdust. He also engineered sessions for the Killers' 2008 album, Day & Age.-External links:*...
– additional musician on tour playing keyboards and guitar
Production
- Max Dingel – engineer
- Flood – producer, engineer, mixing
- Mark Gray – engineer
- Alan MoulderAlan MoulderAlan Moulder is one of Britain's premier alternative rock record producers. He has worked with such artists as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Elastica, Gary Numan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve, Ride, Lush and My Bloody Valentine, Lostprophets, Shihad, Ivyrise and Placebo, as well as with many American...
– Producer, engineer, mixing - Paul Resta – marketing
- Robert ReynoldsRobert Reynolds (manager/lawyer)Robert Reynolds is an entertainment lawyer and manager of multi-platinum, international recording artists The Killers and Brandon Flowers. With an entertainment law practice in Las Vegas, he also represents authors, dancers, actors, UFC fighters, celebrity chefs and various bands signed to major...
– management - Andy Savours – mixing
- Howie WeinbergHowie WeinbergHowie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.- Career :He has worked at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977...
– mastering
Design
- Andy WestAndy WestAndy West is an American bass guitarist and composer who is an original founding member of the Dixie Dregs along with Steve Morse. Since the breakup of the original band in 1983, Andy West has been on albums with Mike Keneally, Henry Kaiser, Paul Barrere, Vinnie Moore, and many others...
– art direction, design - Suzanne Hackett Morgan – painting
- Anton CorbijnAnton CorbijnAnton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...
– photography - Doug Joswick – package production
Response
The album debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart, selling about 315,000 copies in its first week. It became the band's second number 1 album on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
, selling about 260,000 copies in its first week. To date it has sold an estimated more than 5.5 million copies worldwide. It has been certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Argentina, and Ireland. Sam's Town also produced multiple charting singles including the Platinum chart topping single When You Were Young
When You Were Young
"When You Were Young" is a song written and performed by The Killers, and is the third track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006. The song was released as the lead single from that album in September 2006. It has proven to be one of their most successful singles, peaking at...
. It was the second album by The Killers to receive Grammy nominations.
In 2009, Sam's Town was voted the "most underrated album of the decade" by the readers of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Argentina Albums Chart | 1 |
| Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
2 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 5 |
| Belgium Walloon Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
1 |
| Belgium Flanders Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
1 |
| Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
1 |
| Danish Albums Chart | 17 |
| Dutch Albums Chart | 14 |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 15 |
| French Albums Chart | 8 |
| German Albums Chart | 5 |
| Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
1 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | 1 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart | 10 |
| Polish Album Chart | 34 |
| Portuguese Albums Chart | 27 |
| Spanish Albums Chart | 14 |
| Swedish Albums Chart | 45 |
| Swiss Albums Chart | 9 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
1 |
| US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
2 |
Sales and certifications
| Region | Provider | Certification | Sales/Shipments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | CAPIF | Platinum | 40,000+ |
| Australia | ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
2× Platinum | 140,000+ |
| Belgium | IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
Gold | 15,000+ |
| Canada | CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
2× Platinum | 200,000+ |
| Europe | IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
Platinum | 1,000,000+ |
| Germany | IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
Gold | 100,000+ |
| Ireland | IRMA Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:... |
4× Platinum | 60,000+ |
| New Zealand | RIANZ | Gold | 7,500+ |
| Russia | NFPF | Gold | 10,000+ |
| United Kingdom | BPI British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
4× Platinum | 1,200,000+ |
| United States | RIAA | Platinum | 1,000,000+ |
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End of decade charts, awards and polls
In December 2009, Sam's Town was voted by Rolling Stones readers as the most underrated album of the decade.In the UK Chart Sam's Town was the 70th best selling album of the decade and Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
magazine ranked it as the 11th best album of the decade.
| Chart (2000–2009) | Position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart | 70 |
Awards
| Year | Ceremony | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | BRIT Awards Brit Awards The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust... |
Best International Album | |
| 2007 | MTV Australia Awards MTV Australia Awards The MTV Australia Awards started in 2005 and is Australia's first awards show to celebrate both local and international acts.-History:... |
Album of the Year | |
| 2007 | Shockwaves NME Awards | Best Album | |
Release details
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | September 27. 2006 | Universal Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... |
CD | UICL-9037 |
| Australia | September 30, 2006 | Universal Music Australia Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... |
CD | 1706722 |
| United Kingdom | October 2, 2006 | Lizard King Records Lizard King Records Lizard King Records is a New York and London-based independent label. Lizard King's distribution goes through ADA in America and Pinnacle in the UK.-Artists:Current*Surefire*Greater Good*Me*OxzanaFormer*Clear Static*Drive-by Argument*Santogold... |
CD | |
| United States | October 3, 2006 | Island Records Island Records Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group... |
picture disc LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove... |
B0007221-01 |
| CD | B0007221-02 | |||
Sam's Town tour
Christian Hoard, with Rolling StoneRolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
magazine, gave the Killer's seminal concert at Madison Square Gardens three-and-a-half stars, saying "The Vegas quartet's maligned new album, Sam's Town, might pack more unfortunate big-rock bombast than its New Wave debut, Hot Fuss, but it shares a generous hook quotient and a Vegas-y talent for crowd-pleasing. Before a frothy crowd, the Killers proved they've become a tight live band."
External links
- Sam's Town at Island RecordsIsland RecordsIsland Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...