One Direction has already stolen the hearts of millions of girls around the world, and this week it has stolen the tops of the charts, again.

According to Billboard, this week One Direction has broken another record. Their DVD concert special, “Up All Night: The Live Tour”, became the first #1 DVD to outsell a #1 album in the United States. The DVD sold 76,000 copies, the best first sales week for a music video release this year. It outsold the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, John Mayer’s “Born and Raised,” which sold 65,000 copies and all other releases (including singles) for the week.  After only one week in sales, One Direction’s video is already the third largest selling music video for 2012.

In Canada, the DVD is selling twice the amount of copies than the number one album this week and is already the second best selling DVD of the year. In the UK, the DVD is number one on the official charts, becoming the biggest opening selling week of 2012.

The live tour DVD is currently number one in 25 countries, counting the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.

The band released statements about their excitement for the success of the DVD. ”We’re blown away by the success of the DVD all around the world and want to thank everyone who has gone out and bought it, the support means so much to us. It was lots of fun filming the concert for the DVD, so we’re chuffed all the fans love it so much,” Niall Horan said.

The British boy band that was founded on the X Factor UK in 2010 has had their debut album, Up All Night, in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for 12 straight weeks, gaining 12% in sales last week. Their single “What Makes You Beautiful” is spending it’s 16th week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Their album, Up All Night, has sold 739,000 copies in the US so far and became the first British group to debut at number one on the Billboard chart. This current chart topper is their second record breaking achievement, and their debut single “What Makes You Beautiful” went double platinum.

The band, who recently won a Brit Award in February for Best British Single, is currently on their first headlining North American tour. They are playing 27 sold-out shows, hitting cities across the US and wrapping up in Fort Lauderdale, FL on July 1. With their second studio album in the works, the band will return to the US in December to play a special show at Madison Square Garden that sold out in less than 10 minutes.

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On the heels of making their US performance debut while on tour with Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush, One Direction, who are already an international pop sensation, has been confirmed to perform at Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday, March 31st at 8:00 p.m. ET.

The band will also host Saturday nights on Nick throughout March, giving viewers exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the boys as they tour with Big Time Rush. One Direction will be sharing stories, secrets and music from the road, leading into the world premiere of the Nickelodeon original television movie event, Big Time Movie on Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m.

“One Direction is performing on the Kids’ Choice Awards for the first time and it’s going to be scream-worthy,” said Paula Kaplan, an Executive Producer of the Kids’ Choice Awards. “While on tour with Big Time Rush, we have seen their popularity explode, and we are excited to introduce them to our audience during the month of March with exclusive access to the guys leading up to our biggest event of the year.”

One Direction will perform their debut single “What Makes You Beautiful” at the Kids’ Choice Awards,joining host Will Smith for the star-studded event airing live from University of Southern California’s Galen Center in Los Angeles, where kids will honor their favorite celebrities spanning the worlds of film, music, TV and sports.

The X Factor group’s debut single “What Makes You Beautiful,” recently won a BRIT Award for Best British Single, with the music video garnering over 61 million views on VEVO and had more than 132,000 downloads in its first week in the USA. It is also the highest Billboard HOT 100 debut for a UK act in over 14 years since the Verve and they are also the last UK group to chart so high since the Spice Girls.

Most recently, One Direction featuring Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan taped an episode of the Nickelodeon hit comedy series iCarly, entitled “iGot Jungle Worms,” which is set to premiere later this year.

One Direction will debut their album Up All Night in the US on March 13, 2012. Up All Night is already a global success entering the charts at #1 in 6 countries including Sweden and Italy and top ten in 12 more and has been certified triple platinum in Ireland, double platinum in the UK and platinum in New Zealand &Australia.

One Direction joined Big Time Rush’s “Better With U Tour” on February 24th in Chicago and their US debut kicked-off with the highly successful grassroots BRING1D2US online campaign which saw the band break records with social media platforms Twitition and Twibbon. The campaign engaged thousands of fans across America to complete weekly challenges for a chance to win the Grand Prize of a special 1D event in their city.

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