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
The Circus (Erasure album) The Circus (Erasure album) The Circus is the second studio album by Erasure, released on 30 March 1987 by Mute Records in Germany and the UK and 7 July 1987 by Sire Records in the USA. It was Erasure's second consecutive album to be produced by Flood. "The Circus" became the duo's breakthrough in the UK, spawning four hit singles and reaching number six. It was an immediate success thanks to the number two UK placing of the first single "Sometimes", six months earlier. The album remains Erasure's longest-running on the UK charts. Although mainstream success in the U.S. did