--- title: One Direction: Music Group Tops Billboard 200 Chart, Making History description: One Direction is the only group in the Billboard 200 chart's 58-year history to have its first four albums hit No. 1 canonical: https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-26T23:25:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:25:13.315Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: One Direction's New Album 'Four' Makes Billboard Chart History og:description: The only group in the Billboard 200's 58-year history to... og:url: https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a1becebe7407106/69876b5acd6848ab2f09847f/459601684.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 28th Annual ARIA Awards 2014 - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One Direction's New Album 'Four' Makes Billboard Chart History twitter:description: The only group in the Billboard 200's 58-year history to... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a1becebe7407106/69876b5acd6848ab2f09847f/459601684.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # One Direction's New Album 'Four' Makes Billboard Chart History by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 26, 2014 11:25 PM UTC  One Direction perform on stage during the 28th Annual ARIA Awards 2014 at the Star on November 26, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. One Direction perform on stage during the 28th Annual ARIA Awards 2014 at the Star on November 26, 2014 in Sydney, Australia.Brendon Thorne—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 26, 2014 11:25 PM UTC Rejoice, One Direction fans! The five singers again appear unstoppable as they made [chart history](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6327789/one-direction-four-no-1-debut-billboard-200) this week. Billboard reports the group’s fourth album in three years, _Four_, sold 387,000 copies within the first week of its release, marking the second-largest debut of 2014 so far. With that, One Direction became the only group in the Billboard 200 chart’s 58-year history to have their first four albums debut at No. 1. Only two other groups in the chart’s history to have seen their first four studio albums even hit the top spot were The Monkees and The Kingston Trio. \[[_Billboard_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6327789/one-direction-four-no-1-debut-billboard-200)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/"},"headline":"One Direction's New Album 'Four' Makes Billboard Chart History","datePublished":"2014-11-26T23:25:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:25:13.315Z","description":"Only group in the chart's 58-year history to achieve the distinction","url":"https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/","keywords":["Music","entertainment","One Direction"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a1becebe7407106/69876b5acd6848ab2f09847f/459601684.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a1becebe7407106/69876b5acd6848ab2f09847f/459601684.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"28th Annual ARIA Awards 2014 - Show","caption":"28th Annual ARIA Awards 2014 - Show","creditText":"Brendon Thorne—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3608306/one-direction-album-four-billboard-history/","name":"One Direction's New Album 'Four' Makes Billboard Chart History"}}]}] ```