The Press Hacker

The Kings of Leon are the kings of the iTunes album charts for 2009.

The Nashville, Tenn., rock group have the top-selling CD with “Only by the Night.” They are followed by the “Twilight” soundtrack, Lady Gaga’s “The Fame” and Taylor Swift’s “Fearless.”

The Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” is iTunes’ best-selling single. Other songs in the top 10 include Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and another Black Eyed Peas’ hit “I Gotta Feeling.” Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” is No. 7 on the singles list.

“The Essential Michael Jackson” is No. 6 in the album top 10. ITunes declared Jackson its artist of the year.

ITunes released its year-end data taken from December 2008 to this December on Tuesday.

Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill is convinced the band will never suffer the same fate as OASIS – because their family ties are too strong.

The band consists of brothers Nathan, Caleb and Jared, and their cousin Mathew.
Nathan admits that although the group does fight regularly, they will never follow in the footsteps of British band Oasis – who split over the summer (09) following a bust-up between warring siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher.

Nathan tells Britain’s Q magazine, “I’m not sure what happened with those guys. All brothers fight, they just forgot to do the making up bit. But then again, they seemed to be having the same family row (fight) for like, 10 or 15 years so maybe it was time.

“But we have a special strength because we had an upbringing where we didn’t have outsiders in the social circle for the longest time. That makes a big difference. We bug the hell out of each other day to day, but the relationship is so deep it can be like we share a brain between us. We might kill each other, but I don’t think we’d split.”