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
2009 in British music charts A Facebook group, set up to halt "Simon Cowells stranglehold on the charts" by getting the 1992 "Killing in the Name" to the top of the charts, got 750,000 members and led Rage Against the Machine to the first download-only Christmas number one, selling over 500,000 copies – ahead of Joe McElderry by 50,000. In the following week's chart (week ending January 2, 2010) McElderry's single, "The Climb" made it to the number one spot. Notes: Total sales for albums in 2009 amounted to 128,946,805 the lowest since 1999. This record would be beaten in 2013 when only 94,000,000 albums