One Direction tops the charts

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540,000: Number of copies sold of One Direction’s second album, “Take Me Home,” making it the No. 1 album for the week on the Billboard charts. The UK boyband had the year’s third highest debut behind Taylor Swift’s “Red” and Mumford & Sons’s “Babel.” The disc also debuted at No.1 in the band’s native UK.

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