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Post by crash46 on Apr 13, 2009 22:23:37 GMT -5
I have no answer, but Live would be a decent guess. It would be, but "I Alone" peaked at #3 in between #1's "Selling The Drama" and "Lightning Crashes". "I Alone" was contending with "Basket Case", "Interstate Love Song", and "What's The Frequency, Kenneth" at the time, so a fluke #1 exclusive to Billboard would be unlikely.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Apr 14, 2009 12:12:45 GMT -5
the next single, "Revelry" is just awful I wished all bands/labels had the sense enough to pick singles this strong. All I need next is Manhattan and I am all good. But, if that stays a strong album track that doesn't get played ad nauseum on radio, I guess I am cool with that too.
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Post by halo19 on Apr 14, 2009 12:23:03 GMT -5
I have no answer, but Live would be a decent guess. It would be, but "I Alone" peaked at #3 in between #1's "Selling The Drama" and "Lightning Crashes". "I Alone" was contending with "Basket Case", "Interstate Love Song", and "What's The Frequency, Kenneth" at the time, so a fluke #1 exclusive to Billboard would be unlikely. Maybe he's referring to Green Day, who achieved it a bit quicker? "Longview" and "Basket Case" were Billboard #1's. (And tsk... KoL had charted with at least a song per each other album. Live comparison would make sense since both artists had charted before.) "I Alone" peaked at #6 on Billboard.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 14, 2009 15:19:38 GMT -5
Good guesses by all. But Alanis Morissette (spelling may be off!) was the last artist (1995) to have the first two singles reach #1.
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Post by crash46 on Apr 14, 2009 16:28:01 GMT -5
Yeah, that's surprising because I've got "Hand In My Pocket" briefly peaking at #3, unable to hang with the monsters that were The Goo Goo Dolls' "Name" (6 weeks at #1), and, ahem, The Presidents Of The United States Of America's "Lump" (3 weeks at #2).
"Selling The Drama" and The Pretenders' "Night In My Veins" (yeah, really) are what held Green Day's "Longview" from breaking through with a #1. "Basket Case" went to #1, but "Welcome To Paradise" was stopped at #8 after that.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 14, 2009 16:45:13 GMT -5
Green Day also qualifies, as their first two top ten entries reached #1. Morissette was just the last to do it before Kings Of Leon. Live had Operation Spirit as a top ten hit before reaching the top, and never had consecutive #1s (I believe from memory), disqualifying them from this discussion.
Stirctly speaking from Billboard's Modern survey, of course.
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Post by Physical on Apr 14, 2009 21:11:59 GMT -5
Well, Kings Of Leon doesn't qualify either because "The Bucket" peaked #23 back in 2005.
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Post by Cody on Apr 14, 2009 21:23:16 GMT -5
yes Artie, and The Eagles Of Death Metal peaked at #38 with "Wannabe In LA"
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 14, 2009 22:08:55 GMT -5
For those that missed it . . . . Kings Of Leon is the first act since 1995 to have their first two charting top tens reach #1.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 15, 2009 3:26:09 GMT -5
For those that missed it . . . . Kings Of Leon is the first act since 1995 to have their first two charting top tens reach #1. And yet I still don't care.....I do however want you on my team for Trivial Pursuit, I can always use people with more useless knowledge than myself. By the way that "feat" is not that impressive considering they have charted before, it's their fourth album and they have finally become media darlings. Good press can get you to number one more than the strength of a song these days. Alanis was more impressive just because her first two albums were dance pop in Canada and she BURST into the States with her album.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 15, 2009 17:55:56 GMT -5
Good call on the Trivial Pursuit. I've never lost in the four or five times I've played it. But when any band has their first two major hits make it to the top of Modern, that's quite the accomplishment to me. Considering Green Day was the last band to do it, that speaks well for the future of Kings Of Leon.
As for the next single, I've heard Notion and Revelry in spots on radio. Either would be fine with me, but Manhattan, Closer, or Crawl are screaming to score Kings Of Leon the hat trick debut to their music careers. Something Green Day did not even do!
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Post by fran182 on Apr 26, 2009 13:08:14 GMT -5
Today, it reached top 50 on Mediabase Active:
51 50 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody 155 143 12 0.609
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 26, 2009 16:31:54 GMT -5
I'm surprised many of the harder stations are playing this one.
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Post by fran182 on May 6, 2009 9:27:53 GMT -5
Today, it reached top 40 on Mediabase Active:
46 40 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody 232 163 69 0.981
19 stations playing.
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Post by berry4216 on May 6, 2009 11:11:45 GMT -5
Sex On Fire is very good , i like it's style
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Post by Cody on May 6, 2009 18:13:08 GMT -5
Also, Kings Of Leon is the first act since 1995 to have their first two charting top tens reach #1. I had to do some digging fror this because I was bored and I think you were wrong on the Live thing. But Sugar Ray's first two top 10 hits were #1s "Fly" and "Every Morning." "R.P.M." also charted in between, but it peaked at #35
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Post by Pipa on May 6, 2009 20:47:56 GMT -5
Depending on how strict you are about the chart, Peter Gabriel did it too. But I mean...that's Peter Gabriel.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on May 7, 2009 16:03:15 GMT -5
I almost threw Sugar Ray in, but their first #1 had a featured guest, taking full credit away from the band. Plus the R.P.M. track was in between, taking away the consecutive #1s that the other artists mentioned had. Peter Gabriel works also, but he was way before Morissette.
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Post by metalfan87 on May 7, 2009 16:09:29 GMT -5
it's closing in on the top 35 on Mediabase Active
46 37 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody 268 166 102 1.03
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Post by PHOBES on May 7, 2009 18:39:29 GMT -5
I wouldn't exactly say that an unknown reggae artist would take any credit from the band. Additionally, the argument was "a band whose first top tens hit number one." Sugar Ray discgraphy:
"Fly" - 1 "RPM" - 35 "Every Morning" - 1
Clearly "RPM" didn't go top 10; therefore, their first two top tens were indeed number one hits. If we're gonna disqualify Sugar Ray for having a song in between, then why can't we disqualify KoL for having nearly a dozen singles before SoF?
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on May 8, 2009 1:10:09 GMT -5
I wouldn't exactly say that an unknown reggae artist would take any credit from the band. Unknown to rock and pop radio, perhaps. But it's not like Sugar Ray discovered him or plucked him from obscurity. On the contrary, before "Fly" shot Sugar Ray to stardom, Super Cat was more popular in the U.S. than they were based on just Lemonade & Brownies.
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Post by PHOBES on May 8, 2009 15:28:25 GMT -5
I wouldn't exactly say that an unknown reggae artist would take any credit from the band. Unknown to rock and pop radio, perhaps. Well, we are discussing rock radio.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on May 8, 2009 22:33:00 GMT -5
True, the consecutive #1s was the spirit of the trivia.
I'd never heard of Super Cat other than the featured part on the Sugar Ray single. What part did Super Cat actually perform on Fly?
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Post by pen on May 8, 2009 22:41:40 GMT -5
He was the DJ like dude doing all the talking inbetween the singing. If you listen to the other version on the album, that's all absent.
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Post by halo19 on May 8, 2009 23:37:19 GMT -5
While Peter Gabriel technically counts, I feel like it's an incomplete stat, because there wasn't really an alternative/modern rock format during his first four albums, and So was two years earlier than the inception of the modern rock chart.
Actually, there's plenty of artists with that screwy stat.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on May 9, 2009 9:21:39 GMT -5
I agree. If I had the time and desire to search the Nielsen / Billboard database, there might be a few dozen who've done it to start their careers. But since Kings Of Leon were the first to do it consecutively in 14 years, it surely seemed newsworthy. It even made the print edition after that.
I really don't recall any DJ talking during Fly. But then again I haven't heard that song in many years.
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Post by jvandyck87 on May 9, 2009 13:48:54 GMT -5
He's the dude who's like "Spread your love and fly" (it sounds like spread your love ON fly cuz of his Jamaican accent). He also says the line "Like a birdie in the sky up so high" among many other unintelligible things. If you've ever heard the song, you have to have heard this dude. He almost has more lines than Mark McGrath.
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Post by pen on May 9, 2009 15:36:00 GMT -5
Right, exactly. Talking's not what I meant, but it would be just like Artie to take what I say literally.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on May 9, 2009 17:56:56 GMT -5
I'm sure I've heard it then. It just doesn't sound familiar. But what else would talking mean?
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Post by pen on May 9, 2009 18:00:04 GMT -5
I don't know, I don't really consider what Super Cat does to be singing or rapping, but I'm not sure what word I'm looking for, so rather than say the guy who is doing stuff vocally other than Mark McGrath, I went for talking in the hopes that you'd just understand what I meant and leave it at that. But since you say it doesn't sound familiar, then you just legitimately don't know, which is my mistake.
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