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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