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's more than three times the 70,451 copies the Kings Of Leon's last album, Because Of The Times, sold when debuting at number one in 2007, ...