This Is Us... winning! One Direction's Midnight Memories is the bestselling album of 2013... after just FIVE weeks on sale
By Hanna Flint
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One Direction's Midnight Memories was the biggest selling artist album of 2013.
The third record from the popband received a late surge in sales to secure it's place at the top of the end of year chart, according to the Official Charts Company.
Midnight Memories racked up almost 700,000 sales in just five weeks since it's release on November 25th.
Celebration: One Direction's Midnight Memories was the biggest selling album of 2013
On hearing the news, Liam Payne said: 'This
tops an amazing year for us! We're so excited to have the biggest selling album in
the UK this year, especially with a record we are all so proud of.
'We'd like to thank everyone who has bought the album, it really means a lot to us.'
The band's third album beat Emeli Sande's debut Our Version Of Events - which was actually released in 2012 - in the last week of December.
Sandé's LP dropped behind One Direction's with sales of 683,000
copies, but has sold 2.07 million copies to date.
According to the Official Charts Company’s final sales data of 2013 Midnight Memories hit the top spot with 685,000 sales.
Stellar year: Having already seen excellent sales of their DVD This Is Us, the band are no doubt ecstatic about the news
The success comes just after their documentary This Is Us became the fastest selling music DVD/Blu-ray in UK history, selling 270,000 copies in its first three days on release.
The Official Charts Company are the providers of the UK's only official music and video charts, as seen at OfficialCharts.com.
Data is compile purely from sales information gathered from all major high street retail chains, independent stores, supermarkets, mail order internet retailers and digital music service providers.
Third album: The record hit stores on November 25th and has stormed to the top of the yearly chart in just five weeks
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I don't know One Direction (too old to listen their music) but yesterday I watched a TV program about them in order to know who they are. They live a fascinating story. They were very lucky guys.
Its such a good album, less bubblegum pop ish compared to the previous two... And all of the boys co-wrote on it, infact Harry wrote most of Happily. They're such hard workers and so down to earth that they deserve their success, Well Done boys!
Only because it's Christmas and they're constantly on ITV shows or referenced on ITV in some way? Duh?
This album will become an all time classic. Artistry and muscianship are second to none. Nothing short of genius!! Very well done all!!
Might sound bias as a huge One Direction fan but I was really impressed with Midnight Memories, I've loved both their previous albums and they've had "grown up" songs before but on this album the songs and lyrics are even better and sound rather different to the One Direction most people know, give it a listen before you judge!
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inquisitivemind, UK, 12 hours ago
Write an article on 1D and use a picture of just Harry Styles? I'm sure they've done a lot of PR together, should be a few photos of the band floating around, DM...