Midnight Memories

Midnight Memories is the third studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It was released on November 25, 2013, by Columbia Records, Syco Music, and Sony Music. The album has a slightly more rock-influenced sound compared to their earlier albums.

It became the fastest-selling album in Amazon UK history, breaking the record set by their previous album Take Me Home (2012). In the United States, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making One Direction the first group ever to have their first three albums debut at number one there. Even though it was released late in the year, Midnight Memories became the best-selling album of 2013 worldwide, with four million copies sold, according to the IFPI. The album was promoted with four singles: "Best Song Ever," "Story of My Life," "Midnight Memories," and "You & I."

Track listing
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 Personnel 
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

 One Direction 

 Liam Payne – vocals
 Harry Styles – vocals
 Louis Tomlinson – vocals
 Zayn Malik – vocals
 Niall Horan – vocals

 Additional musicians 

 Julian Bunetta – background vocals (tracks 1–3, 7, 10, 13), instrumentation (1, 5, 7), all instruments (2–4, 13, 14), drums (10)
 John Ryan – background vocals (tracks 1–3, 7, 10, 13, 14), instrumentation (1, 5, 7), all instruments (2–4, 11, 14), acoustic guitars (5), guitars (10)
 Damon Bunetta – background vocals (tracks 1–3, 7, 13), all instruments (4)
 Ian Franzino – background vocals (tracks 1, 2)
 Matt Rad – bass, guitar, keyboards, programming, gang vocals (track 1)
 Stefan Litrownik – drums (track 1)
 Petros Anastos-Prastacos – gang vocals (track 1)
 Ruth-Anne Cunningham – background vocals (track 1)
 Jamie Scott – background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 11), all instruments (2, 4, 11)
 Peter Bunetta – background vocals (track 2), all instruments (4)
 Christine Wu – strings, string arrangement (tracks 2, 5)
 Daniel Weiner – backing vocals (tracks 3, 7, 13)
 Jaco Caraco – guitars (track 7)
 Carl Falk – acoustic guitars, electric guitars, instrumentation, programming (track 8)
 Chris Patrick – bass (track 8)
 Ilya Toshinskiy – banjo, mandolin track (8)
 Savan Kotecha – additional backing vocals (track 8)
 Ryan Tedder – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, piano, drums, drum programming, instrumentation (track 9)
 Teddy Geiger – bass, background vocals (track 10)
 Toby Smith – all instruments (track 11)
 Jacknife Lee – drums, bass, guitars, percussion, keyboards (track 12)
 Chris Thornberry – piano (track 12)
 Davide Rossi – strings (track 12)

 Technical 

 Tom Coyne – mastering
 Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 1, 8)
 Joe Zook – mixing (tracks 2–4, 9, 11, 13)
 Ash Howes – mixing (tracks 5–7, 14)
 Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (track 12)
 Julian Bunetta – engineering (tracks 1–5, 7, 10, 13, 14)
 John Ryan – engineering (tracks 1–5, 7, 10, 13, 14)
 Matt Rad – engineering (track 1)
 Petros Anastos-Prastacos – engineering (track 1)
 Alex Oriet – engineering (tracks 2, 11), vocal engineering (1, 3, 8, 12, 14)
 Ben "Bengineer" Chang – engineering (tracks 2, 11), vocal engineering (3, 8, 14)
 Ryan Tedder – engineering (track 9)
 Tim Thomas – engineering (track 9)
 Sam Miller – engineering (track 11)
 Matt Bishop – engineering (track 12)
 Jacknife Lee – engineering (track 12)
 John Hanes – mix engineering (tracks 1, 8)
 Kristian Lundin – vocal recording, vocal editing (track 8)
 Ryan Lipman – mix engineering assistance (tracks 2–4, 9, 11, 13)
 Geoff Swan – mixing assistance (track 12)
 Ian Franzino – engineering assistance (tracks 1–5, 7, 10, 13, 14)

 Visuals 

 RJ Shaughnessy – photography
 Calvin Aurand – photography
 Fluidesign – design

References

Category:One Direction albums
Category:2013 albums
Category:Pop rock albums