EMI's Clive Cawley on The Killers' all-conquering Imploding The Mirage album campaign | Labels | Music Week
The album was one of many delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, and what would have been the band's biggest-ever UK tour has also been pushed back to next year. Yet, having passed 40,000 sales by the Monday midweek update, the band are closing in on Lady Gaga's 52,907 first-week sale for Chromatica, and you can bet their UK label, EMI under the new leadership of president Rebecca Allen and also enjoying a hugely successful campaign for Taylor Swift's Folklore album at the moment will be pulling out all the stops to get there.
EMI MD Clive Cawley is the man pulling the strings, and he sat down with Music Week to take us inside the all-conquering campaign for The Killers' sixth studio album
