Kings of Leon take “Use Somebody” to the top of charts
Kings of Leon’s single “Use Somebody” has hit the No. 1 spot on the Top 40 Radio charts in both airplay and audience, according to a news release from RCA Records.
Interestingly, this is happening one year after the album “Only By The Night” was released. At this point, with all the radio “Use Somebody” is getting in all the formats, the song is reaching a cumulative audience of 100 million on the Hot 100. The album has sold 1.3 million copies in America to date.
Kings of Leon, which has Oklahoma ties, are in the middle of a triumphant North American arena tour that will come to Friday in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma show will be the first event in the Ford Center since it closed for renovations at the end of the NBA season.
Also this weekend, the group will be headlining the prestigious Austin City Limits Music Festival. The alt-rock band’s tour ends in the States on Oct. 16 in Nashville, Tenn.
“Only By The Night” was released on Sept. 23, 2008, and debuted in the top five on the Billboard Top 200 and No. 1 at iTunes. The band was nominated for three Grammys and won its first for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for “Sex On Fire,” which was No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart for nine weeks in a row.
“Use Somebody,” which has now sold over one million copies, was No. 1 at Modern Rock for three weeks straight and is currently one of the biggest rock crossovers of the year at pop radio with its position solid at No. 1.
Appearances on the covers of Rolling Stone and SPIN, and performances on “Saturday Night Live,” the “Today” show’s summer concert series on Rockefeller Plaza, “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and” The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” have all helped give the band – brothers Caleb Followill (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Nathan Followill (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Jared Followill (bass guitar, backing vocals), with their cousin Matthew Followill (lead guitar, backing vocals) - the biggest-selling record of their career as well as put them in front of more fans than ever before.
Remaining dates of the fall tour are below:
September 2009
30 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
October 2009
02 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
03 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
06 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
07 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
09 – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena
10 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
13 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
16 – Nashville, TN – Sommet Center
20 – Guadalajara, MEX – Telmex Arena
22 – Mexico City, MEX – Sports Arena
24 – Monterrey, MEX – Arena Monterrey
-BAM
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