In what year did use somebody hit #1 on the us alternative charts?

"Use Somebody", the hit single by Kings of Leon from the album Only by the Night, first reached #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart on April 11, 2009. The song remained on the Alternative Songs chart for 51 weeks. Their single "Sex on Fire", from the same album, was also on the Alternative Songs chart that week at #8.

Other songs in the Top Ten of the Alternative Songs chart that week included Pearl Jam's "Brother", "Feel Good Drag" by Anberlin, "Lifeline" by Papa Roach, "Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event, "Love Hurts" by Incubus, "Audience of One" by Rise Against, Blue October's "Dirt Room", and Shinedown's "Second Chance".

That same week, "Use Somebody" also charted at #67 on Billboard's Hot 100, #64 in Digital Songs, #16 on the European Hot 100, and #23 on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100.

Announcements in the media on June 27, 2024 revealed the news that Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill and his wife, folk singer Jessie Baylin, are expecting their first child. The news came a week after Nathan's brother Caleb Followill's daughter (with his wife, model Lily Aldridge) Dixie Pearl was born.