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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...
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