The album, Franz Ferdinand , was released in early 2004
After a couple of North American tours and heavy rotation of the “Take Me Out” video on MTV , the album eventually reached No. 32 on the Billboard 200 later in 2004, and sold over a million copies in the United States.
The album only reached the lowest levels of the Billboard 200 album charts in the US as of early 2004, but reached the top 5 of the indie rock chart and the Heatseeker chart for debut artists.
Franz Ferdinand won an Ivor Novello Award in 2004
NME named Franz Ferdinand the best album of 2004
The first single released from the album was ” Oh My God ” in 2004,
In 2004 the band headed to Florida to record their Fueled by Ramen debut Almost Here , produced by James Paul Wisner, who has worked with Dashboard Confessional , Something Corporate , Further Seems Forever , and Underoath . After recording the album and doing a summer tour, the band…
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The band booked small clubs for their 2004 tour, but growing interest forced many venue changes, far beyond the band’s expectations, and the tour continued into mid-2005 throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the SummerSonic Festival in Japan, and the Hillside Festival in Guelph .
In January 2004, the single ” Take Me Out ” reached No. 3 in the UK charts.
“Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us” on December 13, 2003,