Most British acts since mid Eighties top US charts British acts have claimed the highest amount of US number one albums since 1985. This week One Direction's Take Me Home reached the top of the Billboard 200 after selling 540,000 copies, making it the fourth album of the year by a British act get to number one on the US album chart. The success of Take Me Home followed the former X Factor boy band's Up All Night, which reached number one in March, and albums by fellow Britons Mumford and Sons and Adele. Mumford and Sons's Babel dropped out of the US top 10 after seven weeks this week, while Adele's 21 dropped out of the top-30 for the first time. The last time four British albums topped the US charts in a single year was 1985. Wham!'s Make It Big, Phil Collins's No Jacket Required, Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears and Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits were all number one albums in that year. One Direction were signed onto Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after coming third on the X Factor in 2010. They have found success on both sides of the Atlantic - Take Me Home also reached number on in the British charts - and will headline New York's Madison Square Garden in December. Adele's 21 has held the top position in US charts longer than any other album since Prince's Purple Rain in 1985, and is the biggest selling album in the US so far in 2012.