Congrats to One Direction as they score their second #1 album in the United States in under a year! The band's new album, Take Me Home, easily takes the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 this week with 540,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan. That number makes it the third largest sales debut of the year behind Taylor Swift's Red (1.2 million debut) and Mumford & Son's Babel (600,000 start). 1D also was number one on the Billboard 200 earlier this year with Up All Night, which sold 176,000 in it's first week and is currently among the top five highest selling albums of the year. |
It's very possible that if Take Me Home stays fairly contestant through the end of the year that the boys could have two of the top 10 best selling albums of the year in the US, which would be quite the accomplishment and a cherry on top to a year full of world domination.
The news was very exciting to the One Direction boys as Niall tweeted yesterday: "Holy poo poo! Can't believe it! You guys have put us on the top of the US charts with #TakeMeHome this week! Huge number too! Thank you"
Continuing with: "This has been the most incredible week!I've seen all the Chart positions around the world,thank you to every single one of you who bought it."
Take Me Home also went to #1 in the UK earlier this week where the boys also scored their second #1 single in the UK with "Little Things." In addition to the US and UK, the album went to #1 in 32 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, Argentina, Mexico, Japan and Thailand among others.
It was also announced that Harry, Niall, Liam, Louis, and Zayn's latest album has broken the current iTunes record for pre-orders, having sold 130,000 albums through their pre-ordering serves. How amazing is that?!
What's your favorite track from Take Me Home ?
Posted By: Joe
The news was very exciting to the One Direction boys as Niall tweeted yesterday: "Holy poo poo! Can't believe it! You guys have put us on the top of the US charts with #TakeMeHome this week! Huge number too! Thank you"
Continuing with: "This has been the most incredible week!I've seen all the Chart positions around the world,thank you to every single one of you who bought it."
Take Me Home also went to #1 in the UK earlier this week where the boys also scored their second #1 single in the UK with "Little Things." In addition to the US and UK, the album went to #1 in 32 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, Argentina, Mexico, Japan and Thailand among others.
It was also announced that Harry, Niall, Liam, Louis, and Zayn's latest album has broken the current iTunes record for pre-orders, having sold 130,000 albums through their pre-ordering serves. How amazing is that?!
What's your favorite track from Take Me Home ?
Posted By: Joe