One Direction score number one with Drag Me Down – their first without Zayn Malik!

They knocked Little Mix's track Black Magic down to number 3...

Published on7th August 2015 at 5.14pm

One Direction have scored a number one with their track Drag Me Down making it their fourth in total!

The boys surprised everyone by 'doing a Beyonce' and releasing the track with no notice last Friday. This marks their first single since Zayn Malik quit the band back in March, and even knocked their fellow X Factor alumni Little Mix off the top spot. The girls had spent a whole 3 weeks with their track Black Magic.

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This is their biggest global single launch EVER, as it racked up 500K copies in its first week. The track has hit number 1 in a whopping 90 countries, including France, which makes it their first in the country. Come on Frenchies, what took you so long?

Here are some more impressive stats:

The track received 4.75m Spotify streams on the first day
Topped the Spotify Global Chart on day of release - the first track ever to do this
Drag Me Down scored the top spot on Spotify in 17 individual countries including the USA.
It's had 17.7 million streams to date globally.

The band shot the video for Drag Me Down at NASA’s headquarters in Houston yesterday, directed by long term collaborators Fulwell 73.