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Come Around Sundown by Kings of Leon
Come Around Sundown is an album by Kings of Leon, released in 2010. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 81 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Radioactive”, on 53 lists with a best position of #2.
Come Around Sundown, Kings of Leon's fifth album, landed on RCA in October 2010 with the unenviable job of following Only by the Night, the record that had finally made the Tennessee family band, brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew, big in America. Jacquire King produced, and the result splits the difference: the arena-sized sheen is still there, "Back Down South" sounds like a wistful nod to the Southern rock they started with, and "Radioactive", the lead single, which premiered along with its video on the band's website on September 8, rolls along on a big, swaying stomp.
It debuted at number one across much of Europe and in Canada and Australia, and at number two in America. In Britain it moved 183,000 copies in its first week, set a new record for first-week digital album sales and finished 2010 as the year's 11th-biggest seller. It was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammys.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Come Around Sundown on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radioactive | 53 | #2 | – | 2010–2020 | |
| 2 | Pyro | 13 | #18 | – | 2011 | |
| 3 | Back Down South | 12 | #10 | – | 2010–2024 | |
| 4 | The End | 3 | #59 | – | 2010–2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.