Scissor Sisters (album)

Scissor Sisters
Studio album by
Scissor Sisters
ReleasedFebruary 2, 2004
Recorded2003
Genre
Length43:02
Label
ProducerScissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters chronology
The Demo Album
(2003) 		Scissor Sisters
(2004) 		Ta-Dah
(2006)
Singles from Scissor Sisters
  1. "Laura"
    Released: October 27, 2003[1]
  2. "Comfortably Numb"
    Released: January 19, 2004[2]
  3. "Take Your Mama"
    Released: March 29, 2004[3]
  4. "Mary"
    Released: October 11, 2004[4]
  5. "Filthy/Gorgeous"
    Released: January 3, 2005[5]

Scissor Sisters is the debut studio album by American glam rock band Scissor Sisters, first released on February 2, 2004. It was released by Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Universal Motown Records in the United States. The album relates to LGBT life in New York City.

Scissor Sisters reached number 1 on the UK and Irish albums charts and was the best-selling album of 2004 in the UK. Since its release, it been certified 9× Platinum in the UK, selling over 2,700,000 copies in the country alone.[6] In Ireland, it has been certified 5× Platinum. The album was not as successful in their native US, peaking at number 102 on the Billboard 200. As of February 2007, it has sold 299,000 copies in United States.[7] Scissor Sisters has sold 3,300,000 copies worldwide,[8] and is listed as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in the book of the same name, edited by Robert Dimery.[9]

The album won Best International Album at the 2005 BRIT Awards. In July 2006 it was named by Attitude as the top "gay album" of all time.[10]

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  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. January 17, 2004. p. 33.
  3. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. March 27, 2004. p. 39.
  4. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. October 9, 2004. p. 29.
  5. ^ "New Releases: Singles 03.01.05". Music Week. December 18, 2004. p. 23.
  6. ^ Platinum Awards Search
  7. ^ Mitchell, Gail (10 February 2007). "The Rock Roster". Billboard. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  8. ^ [1] Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Milford, Connecticut: Universe Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
  10. ^ "Beatles Top Gay Album". Contactmusic. Leeds. 30 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2006.