Bunetta wrote with the boys often individually or in pairs of two in hotel rooms 
and on tour buses across a half-dozen dates of the band's UK tour and another half-dozen in the States this past summer.
"Midnight Memories" is the next phase in a whirlwind 2-year period that has seen the band sell over 35 million records worldwide, many of which were sold in the United States, the U.K. band's biggest market.
Debut album Up All Night has moved 1.9 million copies since its Stateside release in March 2012, while last November's Take Me Home has nearly matched it with 1.8 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Both albums debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making One Direction the first British band to enter the top of the chart with its first two albums since The Beatles.
The band has also sold 15.6 million singles in the U.S., led by debut hit "What Makes You Beautiful" (4.4 million copies) as well as "One Thing" (1.5 million), "Live While We're Young" (1.2 million) and Midnight Memories' lead single "Best Song Ever" (1 million.)
On the touring front,
One Direction has grossed $78.3 million on 81 of the 134 shows the band has reported to Billboard BoxScore thus far, with an attendance of 1.2 million to the group's first global arena tour. The band took home the Breakthrough Award at Billboard's Touring Awards this month, and is set to embark on an even bigger tour of stadiums in 2014 that starts April 26 in Colombia. Oh, and
their concert documentary This Is Us took in a worldwide gross of $68 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
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