The album's second single, "Little Things", spawned the band's second number one single in the UK.
In September 2012, One Direction released "Live While We're Young", the lead single from their second album, and it reached 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-US artist in the US at the time. That same month, One Direction's first book to be licensed in America, Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction, was published and topped The New York Times Best Seller list. Up All Night: The Live Tour, a video album documenting the tour, was released in May 2012. Initially intended to be solely a UK tour, dates in North America and Australia were added due to demand. Following the release of the album, the band embarked on the Up All Night Tour. Subsequent singles "Gotta Be You" and "One Thing" became top ten hits in the UK. The lead single, "What Makes You Beautiful", was an international commercial success, reaching number one in the UK and number four in the US it has since been certified four and six times platinum in the US and Australia, respectively. Released internationally in March 2012, they became the first UK group to have their debut album reach number one in the United States. The group's debut studio album Up All Night was released in November 2011 in the UK and Ireland. The same month, the boy band performed for 500,000 people throughout the UK as part of the X Factor Live Tour. A book licensed by One Direction, One Direction: Forever Young (Our Official X Factor Story), released in February 2011 and topped The Sunday Times' Best Seller list.
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