The official music video was filmed in London in December 2013. It was less successful in the UK upon its release, only just managing to peak inside the top 40 at number 39. It has since peaked in the top 10 of nine other countries around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. The song was released on 20 November 2013, five days prior to the release of the album, and debuted at number three on the Irish Singles Chart the following day. On 25 November, in a track-by-track review on Billboard writer Chris Payne and by Michael Craigg on the Daily Mirror opined that 'it opens with groovy guitar licks, leads into a peppy pre-chorus, and rocks out in the chorus behind a riff reminiscent of Def Leppard's ' Pour Some Sugar on Me.' Chart performance On 24 January 2014, Payne revealed through a video on the band's YouTube channel that 'Midnight Memories' would serve as the third single of the album outside the US. Or, just when you're young and that's when you kind of have all your experiences.' We have so many memories of just being in the studio or being after a show or being in the back of the bus or going to one of the guys' places and hanging and writing. was between midnight and 5 in the morning.

And midnight memories are where most of the memories of this record were made. Talking to MTV News about the track, Bunetta said, 'It's the title of the album and it just happens to fall in line with Up All Night, Take Me Home, it's all references to in the evening. It is the second single to be written by members of the band, following the previous single of the same album, ' Story of My Life'. 'Midnight Memories' was written by Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Richard Savage, Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, Stephen Maynard Clark, John Ryan, Jamie Scott, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Julian Bunetta and produced by Bunetta. It received an official release on 9 March 2014. On 25 January 2014, it was announced that 'Midnight Memories' would be the third single from the album. It was co-written by Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Richard Savage, Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, Stephen Maynard Clark, Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan and band members Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson. ' Midnight Memories' is a song by the English-Irish boy band One Direction from their third studio album of the same name.

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