One Direction to secure top spot in US

One Direction’s ‘Midnight Memories’ will easily be the number one album in the USA this week with more than 500,000 sales securing its position.

According to HitsDailyDouble.com, ‘Midnight Memories’ sold 530,000 albums and easily replaced Eminem ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2’ at the top of the US chart. Eminem sold 195,000 units.

The only other top 10 debut is Garth Brooks ‘Blame It All On My Roots’ at no 3 with 190,000 sales.

Struggling Lady Gaga ‘ArtPop’ reclaimed some ground but will stay at no 7 with 115,000 sales in America.

The biggest drops were Five Finger Death Punch ‘’The Wrong Side Of Heaven’ which falls from no. 2 to no. 25 and Daughty ‘Baptized’ which falls from no. 5 to no. 21.

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