Mr Brightside is 20 years old.
In that time it’s done 381 weeks in the U.K. chart.
That’s almost 7 and a half years.
No other song has ever come close.
[18SEP2006] 🎵 On this day in 2006 we first heard "He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus". When You Were Young was released as the lead single for Sam's Town
[17JUN2020] 🎵
@thekillers
released My Own Soul's Warning as the third single from Imploding The Mirage. It was the last song written for the album and bullied Imploding The Mirage the song from first track to last.
What an astonishingly good show
@thekillers
put on. How bloody lucky we are to be on the planet at the same time as Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Vannucci, Dave Keuning and Mark Stoermer.
Also,
@TravisBand
might be the best support act they’ve ever had.
[25JUN2007] 🎵 With one deep breath, and one big step, I move a little bit closer, I move a little bit closer, For Reasons Unknown was released on this day in 2007!
[07JUN2004] 🎵 Hot Fuss was released in the UK 18 years ago today! It's spent a total of 254 weeks in the UK chart, 97 of those weeks ran consecutively from its debut!
[17SEP2012] 🎵 After four long years on hiatus,
@thekillers
eagerly anticipated fourth album was released in the UK. As with all their albums, it peaked at number 1 on the UK chart.
[18SEP2006] 🎵 On this day in 2006 we first heard "He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus". When You Were Young was released as the lead single for Sam's Town
[11JUN2022] 🎟️ That’s the UK tour done. Europe, you are in for the time of your lives when the incredible boys (and wonderful girls) turn up in your town
[15JUN2004] 🇺🇸 A week after
@thekillers
released Hot Fuss in the UK it was released to our friends across the pond in America.
Happy Hot Fuss day to you lovely humans over there.
I. Love. This. Band.
That was incredible. I’ll share some highlights tomorrow once I’ve sorted my photos, but for now my happy heart needs to get some rest
[03OCT2006] 🎵 Sam's Town was released in the US a day after it was released in the UK.
In a 2010 reader poll Rolling Stone magazine crowned it Most Underrated Album of the Decade.
[22SEP2017] 🎵 Patiently we waited. And after 1831 long days our patience was rewarded. 5 years and 5 days had passed since the release of the last album when
@thekillers
were ready to share album number 5 with the world. Wonderful Wonderful was released 6 years ago today.
[21JUN1981] 🎂 On this day the world gave us Brandon Richard Flowers. Birthday wishes along with a bucket full of love to our King. Long may he reign.
#HappyBirthdayBrandonFlowers
[05JUL2009] 🕺 In 2009 at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
,
@TheKillers
performed for the first of two nights, the concerts were filmed for their first live DVD, "Live from the Royal Albert Hall".
⚠️YES⚠️
Today, 7th January 2022
@thekillers
Mr Brightside is BACK in the UK top 100 singles chart at number 51
Today is 296 weeks, & charting in 2022 means it’s charted every calendar year since & including 2012. Thats 11 consecutive years!
#thekillers
#mrbrightside
[12JUN2024] 🕺 tonight
@thekillers
begin their Rebel Diamonds world tour in Dublin 🇮🇪
Let’s hope for some deep cuts, awesome merch and wonderful wonderful memories
Well, a copywrite infringement threat from UEFA was not how I imagined starting the day. Watching England win and then The Killers go straight into Mr Brightside was something special last night, but you’ll have to imagine it cos I’m not allowed to show you 😂
[21JUN1981] 🎂 On this day the world gave us Brandon Richard Flowers. Today he turns 40. Birthday wishes along with a bucket full of love to our King. Long may he reign.
#HappyBirthdayBF
@brandonflowers
🎥:Me. LDN. WW Tour. 27NOV2017.
[24SEP2002] 🤴 Elv1s was released 18 years ago today. Around that time BF and Ronnie saw the album in a Virgin Megastore in Vegas, and they were inspired by the marquee style font. Ronnie's then girlfriend was hired to make
@thekillers
logo.
[13FEB2007] 🎵 Read My Mind was released on this day in 2007. The music video was shot in Tokyo and has a cameo from Gachapin, a "green bucktooth dinosaur". Here's a really good behind the scenes video -
[21AUG2020] ♥️ Eighty four days after the original release date & we’ve made it.
Today,
@thekillers
have delivered Imploding The Mirage.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, use
#ImplodingTheMirage
& lets get it trending
📸:reddit/u/Theodorstf
Tomorrow,
@thekillers
play in the Fine City. My fine city. My home. In the stadium I can see from my front door. And I don’t think I’ve been as excited for anything in my entire life. Ever.
Friends. It’s 2023 in the U.K.
Happy New Year. To those of you in vegas tonight, DAMN. enjoy and party hard. I’m gonna be there next time. That’s a promise.
To the rest of you… 🤍 you.
Here’s my fave pic of the year…
@thekillers
in my postcode. NR1 baybee
[01FEB2002] 🕺It's the anniversary of the first documented gig that Dave and Brandon did together. The Café Expresso Roma in Las Vegas was treated to early versions of Mr Brightside and Under the Gun, as well as a cover of Side by Travis.
[17MAY2022] ♥️ It’s been 2 years, 10 months and 18 days since 29th June 2019 which is when
@thekillers
last played in the UK, giving us THAT Glastonbury performance.
Tonight, we breathe that fire again.
[22SEP2017] Patiently we waited. And after 1831 long days our patience was rewarded. 5 years and 5 days had passed since the release of the last album when
@thekillers
were ready to share album number 5 with the world. Wonderful Wonderful was released on this day in 2017.
[17SEP2012] 🎵 After four long years on hiatus,
@thekillers
eagerly anticipated fourth album was released in the UK. As with all their albums, it peaked at number 1 on the UK chart.
@BrandonFlowers
- Battle Born is good enough.
[17SEP2012] 🎵 After four long years on hiatus,
@thekillers
eagerly anticipated fourth album was released in the UK. As with all their albums, it peaked at number 1 on the UK chart.
@BrandonFlowers
- Battle Born WAS good enough.
[22JUN2013] 🕺 It's the anniversary of when
@thekillers
played Wembley.
Wembley Song.
K Confetti.
Lost shoe.
Secret Show.
Share your Wembley memories and pictures with me!
[02OCT2006] 🎵 I see London, I see SAM'S TOWN IS FIFTEEN
@thekillers
released their masterpiece second album to the UK on this day 15 years ago.
#HappyBirthdaySamsTown
[03SEP2010] 🎵 In 1981 God blessed the world with
@BrandonFlowers
. Ten years ago Brandon Flowers blessed the Humans with Flamingo. (er, 10 years. what?!)
[15FEB1976] 🎂 It's Ronnie 'Unstoppable' Vannucci's birthday today, happy birthday to our favourite drummer! Here’s some pictures of when he was young. The drumming one is from when he was in one of his previous bands ‘Attaboy Skip’
I’ve just accosted a direct link to the band who confirmed that my tweet is responsible for “Let’s be havin’ you” 🤯
And that he’ll ask Brandon to consider putting The Desired Effect the song on Spotify 🤯
The Killers have won The Sun’s record of the year. I’m not gonna link to it cos it’s The Sun… however, in the interview BF confirmed deluxe Pressure Machine in the new year 🙌🙌
.
@thekillers
open up about love, life and 'Imploding The Mirage' – a career-high record that encompasses their devout belief in honesty, truth and always embracing emotion.
Read the full NME cover interview now:
[26MAR2021] 🏆 today is the day that Mr Brightside spends the equivalent of 5 years in the UK top 100
@officialcharts
. 260 weeks. The first and only song to do so! Well done
@thekillers
!
[18SEP2012] 🎵 Our friends over in the States had Battle Born released a day after the UK. Our boys heavily referenced Nevada and Las Vegas once more. 'Battle Born' is one of Nevada's mottos, features on the state flag and is the name of the boys studio in Fabulous Las Vegas.
[26MAY2020] 😢
@thekillers
#ImplodingTheMirage
tour was scheduled to start tonight. Stay safe out there everyone and we’ll have a party at the 2021 tour once this is all over
[22JUN2013] 🕺 TEN YEARS. It's the anniversary of when
@thekillers
played Wembley. We were introduced to the Wembley Song. I lost a shoe. Who else was there?
[10MAR2020] 🚫
@thekillers
teased us imminently with
#caution
, featuring a painting by Thomas Blackshear. Could this be the much speculated painting that changed the entire direction of Imploding The Mirage?
📸: Tor dot com
[14JUN2017] 🎵
@thekillers
confirmed that there was indeed gas in the tank, the money was absolutely in the bank, and there was news for us, baby, we were looking at the man 🕺
The Man was released on this day in 2017