The album sold 4 million copies in five weeks, as U.K. music acts claimed the best-selling album in the world for the sixth time in seven years. By Abid Rahman The British pop band were on the scene ...

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Numbers tell the One Direction story through ticket and music sales, chart positions and digital downloads. The pop-singing success of young Englishmen Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis ...

Hear Me Out is a column dedicated to earnest reevaluations of those cast-off bits of pop-cultural ephemera that deserve a second look. Whether they’re films, TV series, albums, comedy specials, ...