Release and Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (66/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC | (favorable) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (C) |
| NME | (7/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (5.2/10) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| The Times | |
| Uncut | |
Hot Fuss was released on 7 June 2004 in the United Kingdom and on 15 June 2004 in the United States. In 2005, it was reissued as a box of eleven 7" vinyl discs, with an album track on each A-side and non-album tracks on the B-sides. Rolling Stone ranked Hot Fuss the 43rd of its "100 Best Albums of the Decade", and it is one of the five most recent recordings listed among the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Hot Fuss was The Killers' first No. 1 album in the UK. It was the 26th best-selling album of the decade in the United Kingdom. It spent 173 weeks on the UK Albums Chart.
The album reached No. 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It is estimated to have sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, including more than 3 million in the United States and more than 2 million in the UK, where it has been certified six-times platinum. It has also been certified platinum or multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Hot Fuss produced several commercially and critically successful singles, including "Mr. Brightside".
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