The Killers’ latest album hit the shelves earlier this month, and their fans in the UK were rejoiced to hear it. Pressure Machine easily hit the no. 1 spot on the British charts, becoming the band’s seventh studio album to do so.
The Killers’ new album blasted to the top of the Official UK Albums Chart with 25,000 equivalent album units sold. To make things even better, every studio album they released since their 2004 debut with Hot Fuss topped the main chart in the UK.
The Killers weren’t so lucky in the U.S., where Pressure Machine debuted at no. 9, with 26,000 equivalent album units earned. Despite the fact it’s their lowest-charting album to date in the U.S., Pressure Machine still managed to enter the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it their seventh record to do so.
This record came out on August 13th, and the lead singer Brandon Flowers described it as a concept album inspired by his childhood in Nephi, Utah. “Mentally, I started to go to this place where I grew up and write songs about it… Once I finally opened that door, the songs that came out and the memories were pretty vivid and emotional. It became pretty obvious to me what this record was going to be,” Flowers told NME.
