Midnight Memories and jockey Juan Hernandez, right, outleg Desert Dawn (Hector Berrios), left, to win the G3, $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes, Friday, December 15, 2023 at Los Alamitos Race Course ...

Years from now, we’ll look back on One Direction’s third release, “Midnight Memories,” as the band’s last album before everything was ruined. Everybody knows that One Direction is simply ...

The album’s not great. Then again—in the finest pop tradition—it’s not meant to be. Midnight Memories is a bunch of aspiring singles jumbled together, jostling for attention.

Midnight Memories (* * * out of four, out Monday) isn't exactly One Direction's rock album — an ebullient rock influence always has distinguished the British quintet from lesser boy bands ...

Midnight Memories debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release, selling 546,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan. Listen to both songs below.

Midnight Memories completed the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares in 1:42.84 on a fast track. With the December victory, Midnight Memories, unraced at 2, ...

None of that could possibly matter less on “Midnight Memories,” easily the year’s most convincing rock album and one that suggests that the genre has, like all other genres in 2013, ...

While “Midnight Memories” references everyone from Rick Springfield to Def Leppard, its key inspiration is 1970s power pop, albeit with significantly more polish. Again, that’s a canny move.