One Direction's Drag Me Down scores the highest US singles chart debut of 2015

One Direction's latest single Drag Me Down has got off to a flying start in America, scoring the highest debut of 2015 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. 

The group's first release after the departure of Zayn Malik back in March enters at Number 3 with the highest first-week sales of their career, comprising of 349,000 downloads and 8.5 million streams.

Drag Me Down earns One Direction their fifth Top 10 single in the country, after What Makes You Beautiful (Number 4 in 2012) Live While We're Young (Number 3 in 2012), Best Song Ever (Number 2 in 2013) and Story of My Life (Number 6 in 2013).

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The track recently entered at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart and claims the highest first-week streams for a song ever, at 2.03 million plays in its first seven days on sale.

Meanwhile, The Weeknd's Can't Feel My Face ousts OMI's Cheerleader from the top spot after three weeks in second place to give the Canadian singer his first US chart-topper. 

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Major Lazer's Leon On reaches a new peak at 5, and Rachel Platten's Fight Song climbs two places from 9 to Number 7. 

Drake's tack aimed at rapper Meek Mill Back To Back enters at Number 21, Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor's Marvin Gaye leaps from 36 to 28, and R. City and Adam Levine's Locked Away vaults from 60 to 35.