List of best-selling singles in the United States.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard) ĭecade-end charts Chart (2000–09) Matthew Followill – lead guitar, backing vocals.Nathan Followill – drums, backing vocals.
American singer Anastacia released this song on her fifth studio album It's A Man's World.A video produced for their cover was nominated for an MTV Freshman Video Award. Scala & Kolacny Brothers covered the song with the all-girls choir for their album Circle.The song peaked at number 100 on the UK Singles Chart English electronic music group Ultrabeat released their cover as a single in 2009.Country singer Margaret Durante did a cover and released it as a single in October 2009.Her cover was later remixed by Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren. It entered the charts on the thirty-fifth spot but quickly rose towards number 14. The song debuted in the Dutch Top 40 chart. Dutch singer Laura Jansen covered a piano ballad-version of "Use Somebody".Pixie Lott performed a cover version of the song which peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles Chart, due to it being a B-side to her number one single " Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)".The song has attracted many cover versions, with CBS affiliate Live 105 radio listing the top 10 covers and Stereogum website listing the top 15, both lists published in 2010. Music video ĭirected by Sophie Muller, who also directed the video for "Sex on Fire" and would later direct "Radioactive", the video features tour footage of the band, in addition to Caleb singing while sitting on a sofa in a penthouse suite overlooking the New York City skyline at night. Īlong with "Sex on Fire", the song was one of two from Kings of Leon's Only by the Night to reach the top three in Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2008, coming in at number three. It has reappeared on further occasions since, and has now spent 77 weeks on the top 75, making it the 14th longest runner of all time, six places behind "Sex on Fire" with its 90 weeks. In the United Kingdom, "Use Somebody" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and spent an unbroken 40 weeks on the chart, only dropping out due to the surge in sales of Michael Jackson titles immediately after his death after an absence of just one week, it was back for another 20 weeks, peaking at number 25. It reached over four million downloads in the US by July 2013. "Use Somebody" also reached number one on the Adult Top 40 chart, and later topped the Mainstream Top 40 chart as well. (Preceding it were " Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls, " Every Morning" by Sugar Ray, and " Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day.) The song first reached number one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart (now called the "Alternative" chart), their second of three consecutive singles to top that chart. On United States radio, the song was a multi-format smash, becoming just the fourth song in history to top the Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40, Alternative Songs, and Triple A charts. Peaking at number four on the Hot 100, it gave the band their first top five hit there, and spent 57 weeks on the chart. In the United States, "Use Somebody" became the band's mainstream breakthrough. Nick Levine of Digital Spy said, "With its Springsteen-style 'oooah-woooah's, gathering storm of guitars and lusty, longing vocals from Caleb Followill, it's nearly as infectious as ' Sex on Fire'." Gavin Haynes of NME praised the song as "easily the best 80's power ballad of 2008", but cautioned that the band "may be in danger of mistaking bluster for brilliance". Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly called "Use Somebody" a highlight of the album, describing the song as "a too-cool hipster's cry for comfort". The song has received generally positive reviews from music critics.
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