2014 American Music Awards - Press Room

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Harry practicing his technique

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1D is only group to debut at No. 1 with their first four albums

One Direction makes history, again, as the act’s new album Four debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. They are the only group in the 58-year history of the chart to see their first four albums debut at No. 1. (A year ago, they became the first group to enter at No. 1 with their first three studio sets, when Midnight Memories bowed atop the chart.) The new album was released on Nov. 17 through SYCO/Columbia Records. Here’s a by-the-numbers look at the achievements the British/Irish quintet has made with Four’s chart-topping arrival:

- With 387,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Nielsen SoundScan,Four earns the second-largest sales debut of the year, and the biggest week overall for a group. Only Taylor Swift’s 1989 was larger, with its 1.287 million start.

- One Direction is the only group to see their first four studio albums debut at No. 1. (They were already the only group to arrive atop the list with their first three sets.) - They are the fourth act, overall, to have their first four studio albums debut at No. 1. They follow soloists Britney Spears (between 1999 and 2003), DMX (his first five, 1998-2003) and Beyonce (five, 2003-2013).

- Four tallies the biggest week for an album by a group since One Direction’s previous effort, Midnight Memories, started with 546,000 on the Dec. 14, 2013-dated Billboard 200 chart (reflecting the sales week ending Dec. 1).

- Four is One Direction’s fourth No. 1 album in a row, in less than three years. They previously topped the list with their debut effort, Up All Night (on the list dated March 31, 2012), Take Me Home (Dec. 1, 2012) and Midnight Memories.

- In the history of the Billboard 200 chart, only three groups have reached No. 1 with their first four studio albums: One Direction, The Monkees (between 1966-1967) and The Kingston Trio (with their first five sets, 1958-1960). While all four of One Direction’s albums debuted at No. 1, The Monkees and The Kingston Trio’s releases climbed to No. 1 after entering the chart at a lower rank. (The chart didn’t see its first debut at No. 1 until 1975, when Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy started atop the list.)

- In total, just six acts have reached No. 1 with their first four studio releases: Beyonce, DMX, The Kingston Trio, The Monkees, One Direction and Britney Spears.

thought we were going strong i thought we were holding on aren’t we?

alulawings:

In the spirit of the Tumblr Language day….I thought I’d like to share trivia about 1D names from the fandom on the Chinese Baidu Tieba platform with those who wouldn’t normally be familiar with it (Though, shoutout to those I see sailing gloriously in both platforms :D)

So there exists boring, clunky phonetic “official” translation of the boys’ names in Chinese (for example used in the Toyota advertisements). However, in many contexts the direct English names are used. But I just adore the simple Chinese nicknames that fans adopted for them too! Each have a single-character moniker (that are sometimes doubled for cuteness, or compounded with adjectives)

Harry is 卷 (juan….(NOT pronounced Spanish Juan lol); means literally, “Curls”). People love calling him  卷 卷 …the more curls the better, eh? haha. Recently I also saw Harry referred to as 卷骚女… “Curly flirty girl/Curly bitch (affectionate)”

Liam is 莉 (li, phonetic. But this is not the usual “li” character for translating male names… the “li” chosen for Liam is a floral one meaning “jasmine”). I’ve seen him called 熊莉，熊 meaning “bear”, and 莉粑粑, 粑粑 meaning a kind of round rice-flour desert treat.

Louis is 丝 (si, pronounced like a hiss, NOT like “see” or “sigh”….“Phonetic” for the “s” in LOUIS, hahaha the irony! - because there’s a tradition of translating the Western name Louis always with the S voiced. However, it has meanings of “silk,” “silky thread,” with connotations of delicateness, so it suits Louis well) He’s often referred to as 丝丝.

Niall is 奶 (nai; phonetic, but it’s got the bonus meaning of “milk” that ties in to Nialler’s innocent image). He’s often called 奶儿  (儿 , “er”, is a common suffix for “-ll” ending English names, but it also fits well with “Nialler”…and it also means “baby”) So he’s the Milk Baby.

 Zayn is 渣 (zha; like “juh” sound in “just”; it’s not phonetic, just based on the Z. Has bonus cute meaning of “little crumbs”) Often Zayn’s called 美渣,  美 meaning beautiful. Everybody wants a crumb of that gawjussness.

1D Name Trivia :D