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Exciter debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 115,000 copies in its first week in the United States. It was the only Depeche Mode album to debut higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom.
The plant that appears on the cover is the Agave attenuata, a species of agave sometimes known as the “lion’s tail”, “swan’s neck”, or “foxtail” for its development of a curved stem, unusual among agaves.