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Keane's Night Train steams to album chart victory

BBC Published May 16, 2010 Reviewed Jul 2, 2026 ✓ Reviewed by citations.press editors
Keane's Night Train steams to album chart victory
Keane burst onto the UK music scene in 2004.
2004 · UK music scene
Keane's previous albums Hope and Fears (2004), Under The Iron Sea (2006) and Perfect Symmetry (2008) also hit the top spot.
3 albums · previous Keane albums
Roll Deep topped the UK singles chart for three consecutive weeks with Good Times.
3 weeks · Good Times by Roll Deep
According to the Official Charts Company, Keane's global album sales now exceed 10 million.
more than 10000000 · global album sales Official Charts Company
Keane have topped the UK album chart with their EP, Night Train, in its first week of release.
1 week · first week of release
Plan B's The Defamation of Strickland Banks and Lady Gaga's The Remix were in second and third place.
2 place · Plan B's album3 place · Lady Gaga's album
Night Train has been released just 18 months after Perfect Symmetry, which included the song Spiralling.
18 months · time between releases
The EP is the flipside of touring for a year, where each night we'd play a song that we'd had for years,
1 year · touring period Richard Hughes, drummer
Roll Deep topped the singles chart for the third week in a row with Good Times.
3 week · chart run
Jason Derulo and Usher featuring Will.I.Am were forced to settle for second and third spot.
2 place · Jason Derulo and Usher featuring Will.I.Am3 place · Jason Derulo and Usher featuring Will.I.Am

Keane have topped the UK album chart with their EP, Night Train, in its first week of release.

Plan B's The Defamation of Strickland Banks and Lady Gaga's The Remix were in second and third place.

Keane's global album sales now exceed 10 million, according to the Official Charts Company.

Their previous albums Hope and Fears (2004), Under The Iron Sea (2006) and Perfect Symmetry (2008) also hit the top spot.

Night Train has been released just 18 months after Perfect Symmetry, which included the song Spiralling.

The band wrote the songs on the EP while touring to promote the album.

Drummer Richard Hughes said the songs were "inspired by all parts of the world" particulary South America.

"The EP is the flipside of touring for a year, where each night we'd play a song that we'd had for years," he said.

"Writing and recording on the road meant that we could be creative."

Meanwhile, grime collective Roll Deep topped the singles chart for the third week in a row with Good Times.

Jason Derulo and Usher featuring Will.I.Am, were forced to settle for second and third spot.

Edward Maya, Aggro Santos, Plan B, Fyfe Dangerfield, Alexandra Burke, the Glee cast and Kelis completed the top 10.

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