Niall Horan is the third former One Direction member to notch up a US solo No 1, matching Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. But Ringo and Paul can at least console themselves with the dozens of others they still hold …
When the Guardian tailed One Direction around the US in 2012, we compared the scenes of fan hysteria to Beatlemania. Five years on, the British boy band have now& equalled the Fab Four’s once seemingly unassailable record of having three members rack up US No 1 solo albums.
Being dubbed “Radio 2 filler” by the Guardian hasn’t stopped Niall Horan’s Flicker joining Zayn Malik and Harry Styles’s earlier US chart-topping debuts, matching George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s solo No 1s in the 1970s.
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