Only by the Night released

In 2008, Kings of Leon released its fourth studio album, Only by the Night , produced by Jacquire King and Angelo Petraglia on September 19, which subsequently entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and remained there for one more week. Only by the Night also had two single-week stints as the UK number one album in 2009, one directly after the BRIT Awards . In the United States, the album reached number four on the Billboard 200 . Reception to the album was the most polarized yet, with the British press granting the album glowing reviews, while in the United States, reactions to the album were more mixed. The album was officially named as the UK’s third- biggest-selling album of 2008 and the biggest-selling album of 2008 in Australia. ” Sex on Fire ” was the first single released for download in the UK on September 8. The song became the band’s most successful as it peaked at number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. They won Best International Band and Best International Album at the Brit Awards in 2009, where they also performed “Use Somebody” live. Kings of Leon also performed on March 14, 2009, at Sound Relief , a benefit concert, for the Victorian Bushfire Crisis . The song “Crawl” from this album was released as a free download on the band’s website on July 28. The third and fourth singles were “Revelry”, which peaked at number 19 in New Zealand, and “Notion”, which peaked at number 24 in Belgium. Only by the Night was certified Platinum in the United States by the RIAA for selling one million copies in less than a year after its release. In 2008, Kings of Leon headlined the Glastonbury Music Festival, and in 2009, the band headlined a number of music festivals, including Reading & Leeds , Rock Werchter , Oxegen , T in the Park , Gurtenfestival and Open’er Festival in Poland, Europe, along with Sasquatch , Lollapalooza , and Austin City Limits in the United States.