Only by the Night in the U.S. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2009 Grammy Award with the song "Sex on Fire" receiving two nominations itself. Worldwide sales of the album exceed 6.2 million copies, according to a press release by the band. "Sex on Fire" came in at number one on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008, with "Use Somebody" number three, "Closer" number 24 and "Crawl" number 70. In September 2007, lead singer Caleb Followill confirmed to "NME" that tracks were already being worked on for a fourth album, only a few days after the release of the
Kings of Leon number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them. In an interview with "Billboard", however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, "We don't want to be Evan and Jaron. We're going to buy our little brother a bass, he's a freshman in high school. Caleb will teach himself the guitar, Matthew played guitar when he was 10 and I'll play the drums. They said, 'All right, we'll come down in one month and see you guys.'" Later in the interview Caleb admitted to the brothers "kidnapping"