One Direction soar to top of US album charts

One Direction’s Take Me Home has taken the boys to the top of the US charts.

The group’s second album has sold 540,000 units in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan — the year’s third-highest debut behind Taylor Swift’s Red, which sold 1.2m in its first week earlier this month, and Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which sold more than 600,000 albums in Sep in its debut week.

“We just want to say a massive thanks to all the fans who have supported us,” band member Harry Styles, 18, said. “We can send tweets and thank them, but 140 characters is never going be enough to say how much it means.”