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Midnight Memories  is One Direction 's third studio album. It was released on November 25, 2013 and was available for pre-order from September 9, 2013. [1] [2] It reached number one in over ninety countries including the  United Kingdom and the  USA .

• 1 Background
• 4 Track listing
• 5.1 United Kingdom
• 5.2 Worldwide
• 5.3 Live performances
• 6.1 Weekly Charts
• 6.2 Monthly Charts
• 6.3 Year - End Charts
• 7 Additional Credits
• 8 References

Background [ ]

One Direction began work on their third studio album while embarking on their second world tour, the Take Me Home Tour . [3] The album was announced simultaneously with news of the band's third world tour, the Where We Are Tour . Louis described the album as "rockier". The track listing for the album was leaked on July 2, 2013.

The official album title was revealed on September 6, 2013, after Zayn tweeted a short video with  Harry writing out the word "Mid..." from alphabet letters. [4] Later, the full video was posted on Instagram with Harry spelling the whole name of the album, Midnight Memories . [5] On September 17, 2013, Niall tweeted that he will be playing guitar on some of the tracks on the album. [6]

The artwork was released early exclusively by tabloid newspaper The Sun's Twitter account [7] . The early access was only available to those people who had a membership with the online version of the newspaper.

On October 11, 2013, One Direction revealed the track listing for the album via a "#MidnightMemoriesTrackQuiz" on Twitter. [8]  The tracks were revealed with a mixture of hints and fill in the gap questions. 

One Direction collaborated with iHeartRadio for an album release party on November 22, 2013 in Los Angeles, where songs were previewed.

On October 17, 2013, it was revealed in a video [9] posted in a news article on the One Direction website [10] that:

• If you had pre-ordered any of the singles from Midnight Memories and you wanted to buy the album then you wouldn't be charged for the track you'd already bought.
• " Story of My Life " on October 28th
• " Diana " on November 18th
• " Midnight Memories " on November 20th
• " You & I " on November 22nd

A lyric video and images were posted for Story of My Life and Diana .

A TV advert [11] was released and seen on YouTube as well as on TV. There were also posters in bus stops and on billboards. There were countdown videos till the day of the album release on November 25th. The album was leaked on November 18, 2013, seven days ahead of its official release. [12] . The band participated in a seven hour long livestream called 1D Day as part of promotion for the album. It was released on November 25, 2013 and a video [13] posted on their channel. It reached number 1 in over 90 countries and all 18 tracks appeared on the iTunes Top 100 chart in America by the end of the day.

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Commercial success [ ], united kingdom [ ].

• Within the first week of its release, Midnight Memories sold more than 237,000 copies, making it the fastest selling album in the UK of 2013, beating Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, with 165,000 copies. It spent two weeks at number one.
• It was also a personal record for One Direction as fastest selling album in the UK,  as it beat Up All Night (139,000 copies week one) and Take Me Home (155,000 copies week one). [14]
• At the end of 2013, it was the highest selling album of 2013, shifting 685,000 copies, after only five weeks since it's release.
• “This tops an amazing year for us!” Liam Payne told OfficialCharts.com. “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.”

Worldwide [ ]

• In August 2014, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) announced Midnight Memories to the biggest selling album of 2013, selling a total of 4 million copies in only 5 weeks, beating Eminem and Justin Timberlake to the top of the chart.

Live performances [ ]

Chart performance [ ], weekly charts [ ], monthly charts [ ], year - end charts [ ], additional credits [ ].

(Credits taken from  Midnight Memories 's liner notes.)

• Photography: R.J. Shaughnessy, Calvin Aurand
• Design: Fluidesign
• Album Mastered by: Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound

References [ ]

• ↑ Twitter Harry's Tweet
• ↑ Twitter One Direction's Tweet
• ↑ Capitalfm.com Third studio album
• ↑ Twitter Zayn's Tweet
• ↑ Instagram Video by onedirection
• ↑ Twitter Niall's tweet
• ↑ Twitter The Sun's tweet
• ↑ Twitter One Direction tracklist quiz tweet
• ↑ YouTube One Direction - Pre-release tracks
• ↑ Onedirectionmusic.com One Direction - "Have You Pre-Ordered Midnight Memories Yet?"
• ↑ Youtube.com TV Advert - Midnight Memories by One Direction
• ↑ Mirror.co.uk Midnight Memories leaked ahead of its release
• ↑ Youtube.com Midnight Memories Countdown Calendar November 25th - Midnight Memories OUT NOW!
• ↑ Officialcharts.com One Direction sore fastest selling album of their career
• 1 List of One Direction songs
• 2 One Direction
• 3 Julian Bunetta

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One Direction’s ‘Midnight Memories’ Set for Big No. 1 Debut

One Direction's new album "Midnight Memories" is easily heading for No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200 chart with a robust sales start.

By Keith Caulfield

Keith Caulfield

One Direction’s new album “Midnight Memories” is easily heading for No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 chart with a robust sales start. This week’s top album , projected to be an encore by Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” will be made official on Billboard.com tomorrow morning.

Industry sources forecast the 1D’s album to sell 500,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Dec. 1. The album — which was released on Monday, Nov. 25 — has a possibility of reaching the 525,000 to 550,000 range. The number is a bit hard to pin down, thanks to the marketplace being thrown for a loop by the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Friday-related promotions and holiday shopping festivities.

That said, a start north of 500,000 for Midnight Memories would likely give the group its third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, following its first two chart-topping albums: “Up All Night” and “Take Me Home.” 

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Both of those sets were released in 2012, and debuted at No. 1. The former sold 176,000 in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, while the latter opened with 540,000.

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The new Billboard 200 chart’s top 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Amazingly, if One Direction debuts at No. 1, they’ll become the first group since the Monkees in 1967 to reach No. 1 with their first three albums.

It’s a fitting chart feat, since both acts were born on TV. One Direction was formed on the 2010 edition of the U.K. TV talent show “The X Factor,” and saw their debut album bow in their home country the following year. 

As for the Monkees, the quartet (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork) was recruited explicitly to star in a TV show. That show, “The Monkees,” premiered on Sept. 12, 1966 on ABC. The group’s self-titled debut album was released shortly thereafter, and climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its sixth week on the chart. The act followed up the No. 1 success with three more consecutive No. 1s in 1967: “More of the Monkees,” “Headquarters” and “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.”

If “Midnight Memories” sells 500,000, it will also give One Direction their second sales week greater than a half-million (following “Take Me Home’s” debut). Since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991, only two other pop groups have logged multiple half-million sales weeks: ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys.

‘N Sync did it seven times with three different albums, while Backstreet Boys did it nine times with two albums. Other groups and bands have earned numerous 500,000-plus frames, but they were all R&B, rap, country or rock acts. 

A fair chunk of One Direction’s debut is fueled by pre-orders via the iTunes Store. Sources suggest that nearly 200,000 pre-orders were registered before the album went on sale. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the pre-orders will translate into actual, completed sales, but one can imagine a good deal of them will.

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