Midweek Charts: One Direction to achieve 2013's best first-week sales

Paul Williams

One Direction's Midnight Memories is heading to the top of the UK artist albums chart this weekend with the highest first-week sales of the year.

The boy band's third album by the end of business on Tuesday had already outsold the entire first-week sales of their Syco debut Up All Night and should easily surpass the opening tally of second album Take Me Home, according to Official Charts Company statistics. Midnight Memories is up to 144,887 in the week so ...

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