One Direction’s Midnight Memories is the biggest selling album of 2013, new figures have revealed.
Statistics from the Official Charts Company (OCC) showed that the band’s third album sold almost 700,000 copies in the five weeks since it was released in November.
Liam from One Direction said: ‘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.’
The record made a late sales surge during the last week of the year to overtake Emeli Sande’s record-breaking debut album, Our Version Of Events.
Emeli’s record, which was released in 2012, sold 683,000 copies over the course of the year, taking its total sales to 2.07m.
Midnight Memories sold more than 237,000 copies during its first week on sale to become the fastest selling album of 2013.
It also become the fastest selling album of the band’s career, beating the first week tallies of 2011’s Up All Night (139,000 copies week one) and 2012’s Take Me Home (155,000 copies).
Statistics from the Official Charts Company (OCC) showed that the band’s third album sold almost 700,000 copies in the five weeks since it was released in November.
Liam from One Direction said: ‘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.’
The record made a late sales surge during the last week of the year to overtake Emeli Sande’s record-breaking debut album, Our Version Of Events.
Emeli’s record, which was released in 2012, sold 683,000 copies over the course of the year, taking its total sales to 2.07m.
Midnight Memories sold more than 237,000 copies during its first week on sale to become the fastest selling album of 2013.
It also become the fastest selling album of the band’s career, beating the first week tallies of 2011’s Up All Night (139,000 copies week one) and 2012’s Take Me Home (155,000 copies).
