It's undoubtedly the best part of the track - and perhaps one of the best parts of all of Midnight Memories. The title might be too generous, but this mostly inoffensive song's biggest fault is burying Louis's powerhouse (and heartbreaking) solo at the very end. But has it held up over the years? Surely not. Sure, 1D's second-ever single was a rockin' power ballad in its time, and it foreshadowed Liam's destiny as the group's go-to falsetto guy. The only non-original song on this list, this mashup - recorded as a charity single - is a passable (albeit catchy) rehash of ~iconic~ '70s punk band Blondie's covered-to-death "One Way or Another" and Irish rock band The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks." Otherwise, nothing special. "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)," recorded for Red Nose Day 2013 But four years later, closer inspection forces us to ask: What do they mean by "stand up"? There's a "stand off" and there's a "stick up," but we're not quite sure what a "stand up" is…Īs you'd expect from the title, this is baby Direction at their neediest and brattiest. "Stand Up," Up All Night ( bonus track)Īh, the jam - circa 2011, of course. And why, pray tell, are they walking around with one shoe?Ĩ4. Starting off sounding almost exactly like their (only slightly more superior) "More Than This," this might be the sappiest of all their ballads. "Half a Heart," Midnight Memories ( bonus track) So it's for the best that they kept this track off the standard release, since it's the only one that sounds like a boy band playing pretend.Ĩ6. Midnight Memories proved that 1D could do rock, and do it well. "Alive," Midnight Memories ( bonus track) "We're like na na na / then we're like yeah yeah yeah." Enough said.Ĩ7. Unfortunately, you'd be better off listening to Chris Martin and co. Surely you know that Harry is a renowned fan of Coldplay, the obvious sonic inspiration for this ballad. "Another World," Up All Night (bonus track)īet you didn't even know this song existed, did you?Ĩ9. Why would you rhyme "breaking" with "taken," especially when you pronounce it tay-kuhn? A total pronunciation fail plus a forgettable melody puts this at the bottom of the list.ĩ0. Below is a definitive ranking of all 1D songs - including bonus tracks and one cover - in reverse order, all the way from the bottom to their best song ever. Now that we've had some time to let the song settle (and turn it off repeat on iTunes) we've examined its place in their entire oeuvre.
2015 is no different now that they've released " Drag Me Down," the first single off their fifth record and their first without Zayn, sob. She currently sits behind only the Frozen soundtrack in terms of most copies sold in 2014.Ever since they stole our hearts on The X Factor in 2010, the boys of One Direction have dropped a new album every November like clockwork, giving Directioners a fresh crop of jams to rock out to for an entire calendar year. In the runner up slot, Swift moved another 214,000, which brings her four week total to 2.21 million. If anyone is counting, that’s almost three and a half times the size of One Direction’s achievement. Swift easily keeps her hold on the largest single week sales figure this year, having moved 1.287 million copies of her latest album 1989.
The British boy banders dethrone Taylor Swift, who enjoyed three weeks at the top spot and slides to number two. Pretty technical, but you have to give credit where it’s due (especially to legends like The Monkees and The Kingston Trio). Both The Monkees and The Kingston Trio saw their albums reach the pinnacle of the charts, but some of those albums didn’t start off there. While they are the first band or group in history to have their first four albums debut ahead of everybody else, they aren’t actually the first to have their first four albums end up at number one. They follow in the footsteps of Britney Spears, DMX, and Beyonce, the latter two of which saw five CDs start in first place. When it comes to all acts (including solo artists), One Direction are the fourth in charting history to have their first four records debut at number one. Four is also their fourth number one in less than three years, which is truly an amazing feat.
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