2009 in British music charts summer festival season and being covered on the ITV1 talent show The X Factor. On the albums chart the Arctic Monkeys spent a second week at #1, while Dame Vera Lynn's greatest hits album "We'll Meet Again" climbed to number 2. It was the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, when her career flourished, and at the age of 92, this made her the oldest ever living person to have an album chart that high. Kings of Leon repeated their success from the singles chart with their album Only By The Night climbing from outside the top
Modern Times (Bob Dylan album) from the work of 19th-century poet Henry Timrod. "Modern Times" became the singer-songwriter's first album in the U.S. since 1976's "Desire". It was also his first album to debut at the summit of the "Billboard" 200, selling 191,933 copies in its first week. At age 65, Dylan became the oldest living person at the time to have an album enter the Billboard charts at . It also reached in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, debuted in Germany, Austria and Sweden. It reached in the UK and the Netherlands, respectively, and had sold over 4 million copies