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'Review of Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand'. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 December 2005. ^ a b Thornton, Anthony (16 February 2004).Archived from the original on 22 November 2005. ^ a b 'Reviews for Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand'.^ 'RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America'.'Official Charts Analysis: Avenged Sevenfold sell 21K to land first No.1 album'.

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^ 'Classic Scottish Albums, Series 4: Franz Ferdinand'.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. All tracks are produced by Tore Johansson except 'Tell Her Tonight' and 'This Fire', produced by Franz Ferdinand.įinnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) The album entered the Billboard 200 album charts on 26 April 2004, and climbed slowly, peaking at number 32 in December 2004.Īll tracks are written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, unless noted otherwise. The album entered the UK album charts at number 3 in February 2004 and at number 12 on the Australian ARIA album charts in April 2004. Commercial įranz Ferdinand had a positive commercial performance.

Online music magazine Pitchfork placed Franz Ferdinand at number 101 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. Clash placed 'Franz Ferdinand' at No.14 in its list of the top albums from 2004 to 2009.

įranz Ferdinand is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was placed at number two on Planet Sound's Best Albums of 2004 list. Simon Fernand of BBC Music wrote that Franz Ferdinand 'may not be a particularly long album, but it is a masterpiece of funky, punky, suave cool from the first track to the last.' Anthony Thornton of NME cited Franz Ferdinand as the latest act in a line of art school rock bands with 'the absolute conviction that rock 'n' roll is more than a career option' and praised the album as 'the latest and most intoxicating example of the wonderful pushing its way up between the ugly slabs of Pop Idol, nu metal and Britons aping American bands.' Heather Phares of AllMusic said that Franz Ferdinand 'ends up being rewarding in different ways than the band's previous work was, and it's apparent that they're one of the more exciting groups to come out of the garage rock/ post-punk revival.' Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a three-star honorable mention rating and quipped of the band: 'Young enough to only work when they need the money, a musical tradition worth fighting for'.

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Reception Critical Professional ratings Aggregate scoresįranz Ferdinand received universal critical acclaim, holding a score of 87 out of 100 on review aggregator site Metacritic, indicating 'universal acclaim', based on 31 reviews. The album has since sold over 3.6 million copies worldwide, with over 1.27 million copies in the United Kingdom and at least 1 million copies in the US (corresponding to Platinum). It entered the United Kingdom album charts at number three in February 2004 and contains the UK top ten singles ' Take Me Out' and ' The Dark of the Matinée' as well as UK top 20 hit ' Michael'.įranz Ferdinand won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize and was nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. It was recorded during 2003 at Gula Studios in Malmö, Sweden, with Tore Johansson, who produced the majority of the album, with two tracks produced by the band themselves. Franz Ferdinand is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, first released on 9 February 2004 through the Domino Recording Company.