The band's second album comprehensively led the US albums chart last week, selling 124,000 copies to Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream's 77,000.
The achievement means XL can chalk up the album as the label's first self-released US nu ber one: while the UK indie label scored a US number one album with The Prodigy's Fat Of the Land in 1997, that was licensed through Maverick. It is also the first time that a UK indie has topped the main ...
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