In 2012, One Direction revealed that a follow-up release to their debut album, Up All Night (2011), was in development. One Direction greet Swedish fans in Stockholm, Sweden, May 2012, as the recording commenced at Kinglet Studios Furthermore, One Direction embarked on their second worldwide concert tour entitled the Take Me Home Tour in 2013. To promote the album, One Direction performed the album's songs on several televised programmes and a headlining sold-out concert at the Madison Square Garden. The subsequent singles, " Little Things" and " Kiss You", were less successful, although the former topped the UK Singles Chart. The album's lead single, " Live While We're Young", released on 28 September 2012, peaked inside the top ten in almost every country it charted in and recorded the highest one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-U.S. Their debut album and Take Me Home were the third and fifth-best-selling albums of 2012 in the United States, respectively, making the band the first act to place two albums in the year-end top five in the Nielsen SoundScan era. One Direction also became the second act in 2012 to achieve two number-one albums within a 12-month period, and the first boy band in US chart history to land two number-one albums in a calendar year. The album's number-one debut on the US Billboard 200 chart made One Direction the first group to bow atop the Billboard 200 with their first two albums since American girl group Danity Kane entered with Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008 and their self-titled debut in 2006. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Take Me Home was the fourth-global-best-selling album of 2012, selling 4.4 million units. Globally, the album topped the charts in more than 35 countries. There was praise for its quality of production, while criticism hinged on its generic, rushed nature. Take Me Home garnered mostly positive reviews from music critics. The members' voices are presented individually on the record, and its lyricism speaks of falling in love, unrequited love, commitment, jealousy and self-empowerment. The album's songs are characterised by metronomic pop, vocal harmonies, hand claps, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesisers, a homogeneous sound and message, and rotations of lead vocals. Largely recorded and composed in Sweden during 2012, Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits, " What Makes You Beautiful" and " One Thing", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around the members' tones. As a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track.
In an interview with Simon Cowell, he revealed that one of the songs for the album will be titled “18”, which is written by Ed Sheeran, who also wrote “ Little Things” and “ Moments” for the group.Take Me Home is the second studio album by British-Irish boy band One Direction, released on 9 November 2012 by Syco Music and Columbia Records. The song was put on the band’s Vevo on 22 September.
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Horan stated that the reason for the free download was “because you have supported us so much, we wanted to give a little something back”.”Fireproof” was written by Payne and Tomlinson along with John Ryan, Jamie Scott and Julian Bunetta, who also wrote their single “ Story of My Life“.In the 24-hour span, 1.1 million downloads were generated. The name and cover of the album was announced on 8 September on One Direction’s official website, along with a free download of a song called “Fireproof”, which was available for 24 hours. Payne claimed that the album would be “edgier” and the group have written most of the songs for it. Other people involved in the album are singers John Legend, Emeli Sandé and producer Naughty Boy. Rock band Kodaline wrote an “unrequited love song” with Harry Styles, and The 1975 were chosen by One Direction themselves to work on the album. McFly members Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter also teamed up with Niall Horan to write some tunes for the album, with one of their songs being so good, McFly claimed it should be released as a single. Good Charlotte was reported to have collaborated with band members Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson for writing songs. On 27 April 2014, it was confirmed that One Direction were working on their fourth studio album. It will be released through Columbia Records and Syco Music on 17 November 2014. Four is the upcoming fourth studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction.