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CHARTS ANALYSIS: Kings Of Leon herald relative success.
THE FOLLOWILL FAMILY'S FORTUNES take a turn for the better this week with Kings Of Leon - brothers Nathan, Caleb and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew - adding the album crown to their singles title.
The Tennessee quartet's new album Only By The Night makes an emphatic debut at number one, on first-week sales of 220,879 - a total beaten in 2008 only by the 302,074 copies that Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends sold when it debuted at number one 15 weeks ago. It is more than three times the 70,451 copies Kings Of Leon's last album Because Of The Times sold when debuting at number one in 2007, and far exceeds the 33,741 sales achieved by Youth And Young Manhood on its number five debut in 2003, and the 58,369 start at number three made by Aha Shake Heartbreak in 2004.
Only By The Night's success makes a comparatively small dent in sales of Kings Of Leon's current single Sex On Fire, which shifts a further 44,936 copies in its third frame at number one this week. They are the first US rock group to simultaneously top the singles and albums chart since Evanescence did so in 2003 with the single Bring Me To Life and album Fallen.
But for the release of Only By The Night, Rihanna would be celebrating a return to number one. The continued availability of her current album Good Girl Gone Bad at #5 on the high street and the growing popularity of the Disturbia single provide the album with a fifth straight week of sales growth. It moves 3-2 on sales of 47,839 copies, achieving its highest chart position since it debuted at number one in June 2007. It has now sold 1,054,185 copies to date. Meanwhile, after suffering minor dips in sales for the last two weeks, downloads of Disturbia increase to a best-yet 24,899 to earn the track a 5-3 move ahead of physical release today (Monday).
Like Kings Of Leon and Rihanna, the Pussycat Dolls have simultaneous top five singles and albums. Their When I Grow Up single slips 3-4 (23,365 sales), while their second album Doll Domination debuts at number four on sales of 31,823 units. It instantly eclipses the number eight debut (23,800 sales) and number seven peak of first album PCD but will do well to beat its career sales of 1,209,519.
McFly gave away more than 1m copies of their Radio:Active album with The Mail On Sunday in July. An expanded version of the album opens at number eight on sales of 25,943, falling short of the number six debut and 44,225 copies their last studio album, Motion In The Ocean, sold on its November 2006 debut.
Other notable new arrivals on the albums chart include The Best Bette, a Bette Midler compilation which arrives at number six on sales of 28,429 to become her first entry of any kind since 1995, and her highest-charting set since a previous hits set, Experience The Divine, reached number three in 1993. Pink Floyd star David Gilmour's Live At Gdansk set debuts this week at number 10 on sales of 24,073. Recorded in 2006 during his tour in support of the number one album On An Island, it was released simultaneously as a two-CD, ...
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