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Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill, Nathan Followill
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"Sex on Fire" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon. It was released on August 11, 2008, as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Only by the Night (2008). The song gave the band their first number-one single in Australia, Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, charting at the top spot on digital downloads alone in the latter country, before its physical release. In September 2009, it was Britain's second most-downloaded digital single ever. The song has sold 1.2 million copies in the United Kingdom as of November 2012. It has also gained significant popularity in the United States, reaching number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the band's second highest-charting song there on the latter chart.
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Only By the Night / September 19, 2008
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