After two weeks at number one and a further fortnight at number two, One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories, dips to third place on sales of 75,822 copies. It is enough – JUST enough – for the album to claim the honour of being 2013’s biggest selling album preventing, at the very last gasp, Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events from topping the list for two years in a row. Sande’s album sold 682,908 copies in 2013 to raise its career (98 week) tally to 2,075,777. Midnight Memories has sold 684,754 copies in five weeks. Completing the top five for the year, Michael Buble’s To Be Loved sold 631,224 copies, Swings Both Ways sold 626,465, and Olly Murs’ Right Place Right Time – which dips 4-5 on this week’s chart on sales of 62,609 – sold 622,643 copies to increase its career (57 week) tally to 1,193,055.