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UK : Band Aid 30 sold 312k, 1D #1 with 142k
The fab five have done it again – following on from scoring the biggest selling album of 2013 with Midnight Memories, the unstoppable One Direction have landed their third consecutive chart-topping album.
Four – the band’s fourth album, funnily enough – has romped to Number 1 with huge sales of 142,000, outselling its nearest rival by over 90,000 copies.
And it looks like there's more to come! Speaking exclusively to Scott Mills on Radio 1 and scotching those split rumours, 1D's Liam Payne confirmed: "We're already thinking about the next album".
It’s a 22nd week in the Top 10 for Ed Sheeran and x at Number 2, while Sam Smith’s debut In The Lonely Hour advances one place to Number 3.
Last week’s Number 1 from Pink Floyd, The Endless River, drops three places to Number 4, and Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways also slips three to round off the Top 5.
1 FOUR ONE DIRECTION
2 X ED SHEERAN
3 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH
4 THE ENDLESS RIVER PINK FLOYD
5 SONIC HIGHWAYS FOO FIGHTERS
6 IT'S THE GIRLS BETTE MIDLER
7 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT
8 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA
9 NOTHING HAS CHANGED - THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE
10 HOME SWEET HOME KATHERINE JENKINS
Previous first weeks:
Up All Night : 139k
Take Me Home : 155k
Midnight Memories : 188k
FOUR : 142k
Still good numbers, but they're decling, it's a fact.
Ed selling another +50k. Wow.
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