Notion (song)

See also: Notion
"Notion"
Single by Kings of Leon
from the album Only by the Night
Released June 29, 2009
Recorded 2008
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:00
Label RCA
Writer(s) Kings of Leon
Producer Angelo Petraglia, Jacquire King
Kings of Leon singles chronology
"Revelry"
(2009)		 "Notion"
(2009)		 "Crawl"
(2009)
Only by the Night track listing
  1. "Closer"
  2. "Crawl"
  3. "Sex on Fire"
  4. "Use Somebody"
  5. "Manhattan"
  6. "Revelry"
  7. "17"
  8. "Notion"
  9. "I Want You"
  10. "Be Somebody"
  11. "Cold Desert"

"Notion" is a song by American rock band Kings of Leon. The song was released as the fourth single (fifth in Australia) from their album, Only by the Night, on June 29, 2009. The song reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart for one week in of September 2009.

Contents

Music video

A music video was shot as a promotional effort for the single and was released on June 1. The director was Phil Griffin. It captures the band making a performance in a dark alleyway with fire burning the wall behind them and falling from the sky onto the ground beneath them.

Track listing

iTunes Download
  1. "Notion" - 3:00
  2. "Notion" (Live in Amsterdam) - 3:01
Australian exclusive EP (physical)
  1. "Notion" - 3:00
  2. "Beneath The Surface" - 2:49
  3. "Sex On Fire" (Live From Cologne) - 3:31
  4. "Notion" (Live in Amsterdam) - 3:01
  5. "The Bucket" (CSS Remix) - 3:44

Chart performance

When the song hit number 20 on the Billboard Hot Alternative (formerly, Modern Rock) Tracks chart, Kings of Leon still had two other songs in the top 20 – "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody". The feat made them one of only five bands to ever have three songs in the top 20 simultaneously. The song debuted and peaked at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending October 31, 2009.

On the Canadian Hot 100, the song peaked at number 52.

Despite heavy radio play on BBC Radio 1, the song missed the UK Singles Chart Top 100 and peaked at #107. Although this marked the first time the band had missed the UK Top 100 for a single, "Notion" was heavily backed as a successful single beforehand due to the sensational success of Only by the Night containing the track.

The song has peaked at number 46 on the Australian ARIA Charts and has also become a radio hit there peaking at number 6 on the Australian Airplay charts.[1]

Charts

Chart (2009)[2][3] Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 46
Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders)[4] 24
Canadian Hot 100[5] 41
Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[6] 92
German Singles Chart[7] 69
Irish Singles Chart 50
New Zealand Singles Chart[8] 25
Swedish Singles Chart[9] 57
UK Singles Chart 107
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 99
U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs[11] 1
U.S. Billboard Rock Songs[11] 14

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ All Billboard Charts
  3. ^ Chart Run for "Notion"
  4. ^ http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Kings+Of+Leon
  5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/kings-of-leon/chart-history/509854?f=793&g=Singles
  6. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Kings Of Leon – Notion" (in Dutch). Mega Single Top 100. Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
  7. ^ http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Kings+of+Leon/?type=single
  8. ^ http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp
  9. ^ Swedish Singles Chart
  10. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/kings-of-leon/chart-history/509854?f=379&g=Singles
  11. ^ a b http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=509854&model.vnuAlbumId=1174975

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Preceded by
"New Divide" by Linkin Park		 Billboard Alternative Songs number-one single
September 19, 2009		 Succeeded by
"Uprising" by Muse
Kings of Leon
Nathan Followill • Caleb Followill • Jared Followill • Matthew Followill
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"Molly's Chambers" • "Wasted Time" • "California Waiting" • "The Bucket" • "Four Kicks" • "King of the Rodeo" • "On Call" • "Fans" • "Charmer" • "Sex on Fire" • "Use Somebody" • "Revelry" • "Notion" • "Crawl" • "Radioactive" • "Pyro" • "The Immortals" • "Back Down South"
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