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One Direction’s Midnight Memories the 2013 bestseller

By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 31 December 2013

One Direction have the best selling album of 2013 in the UK, the Official Charts Company has confirmed, the 1D boys having sneaked passed Emeli Sandé when she wasn’t looking. Typical of the Syco boyband to wait til poor Ms Sandé is enjoying a pre-Christmas drinks party, and then to elbow their way into first place.

So yes, Sandé’s debut long player ‘Our Version Of Events’ had been set to be the biggest selling album of the year, no mean feat given it was released in early 2012, but then 1D released their third long player on 25 Nov and everything changed. Having sold 237,000 units in its first week, making it the fastest selling album of the year and of One Direction’s career, by yesterday ‘Midnight Memories’ had shifted 685,000 copies, making it the overall best seller of 2013.

Told this fact by the Counter In Chief at the OCC, 1D’s Liam Payne blurted thus: “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”.

Meanwhile charts boss man Martin Talbot took a moment away from blowing up balloons for his New Year’s Eve bash to tell CMU: “Hearty congratulations should go to One Direction. It is a huge honour to become the biggest seller of any year. To do so in such a short amount of time is a very impressive achievement”.

Hearty congratulations indeed. And now lets just imagine what those 1D boys could have achieved if they’d released a good album! Mind blowing isn’t it?