Take Me Home is the second studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It was released on 9 November 2012 through Syco Records (Sony Music Entertainment). The album is a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album Up All Night (2011). The album was announced in mid-2012 while One Direction were on a break from their Up All Night Tour (2011–12). Recording began in May 2012, Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, Savan Kotecha, Ed Sheeran, Jake Gosling, and Tom Fletcher have confirmed to be involved in the development. The lead single, "Live While We're Young", released on 28 September 2012, rocketed to worldwide success, peaking inside the top ten in almost every country it charted. The single recorded the highest ever one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-US artist, and the third ever for a download by a group in the United States.

