One Direction first group with four No.1 albums on Billboard 200

Coral Williamson

One Direction have made chart history, as the first group to score four No.1 albums on the Billboard 200.

The British act’s fourth album, Four, sold 387,000 copies in its first week, knocking Taylor Swift’s 1989 from the top spot.

The new record follows on from last year’s Midnight Memories, 2012’s Take Me Home and their debut album, Up All Night, released in 2011.

One Direction also became the second British act to date to pass the 1 billion streams ...

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