British boy band One Direction became the only group to score four consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, ousting Taylor Swift from her chart-topping reign. According to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, One Direction’s latest album, “Four”, sold 387,000 copies in its first week. Sales of “Four” may have been boosted after One Direction won three times at Sunday’s televised American Music Awards, including the night’s top place for artist of the year. The band also made history on music streaming platform Spotify by scoring the most first-week streams after “Four” was streamed 11.6 million times in the United States and 30 million times worldwide.
