Fomer member of the teen-sensation boy band, Zayn Malik is definitely having the time of his life as a solo artiste.
The singer has set the record as being the first UK male artiste to
debut at no. 1 on the Billboard charts with his album, "Mind of Mine"
knocking Adele's "25" from the top spot.
Congrats to @ZaynMalik, whose "Mind of Mine" album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 https://t.co/ssCdHl3M7I pic.twitter.com/jpmDFzfRMF— billboard (@billboard) April 3, 2016
Malik is the first UK male artist to reach the top of the American
charts in 28 years since George Michael’s 'Faith' in 1988 in addition to
being the first UK act to top the US charts since his former group, One
Direction did in 2012 with "Up All Night".
"Mind of mine" and its lead single 'Pillow Talk' both reached number one
in 83 countries on iTunes within 24 hours of it's release. Balling
extraordinaire.
In an interesting move, Zayn credited his record breaking success to his smoking pot. Speaking to NME, he said:
"I’ve probably been smoking for a while. I don’t wanna say when I started because I don’t want to influence anyone else. That’s just something I do myself. It helps sometimes with the creative process, if you’re smoking a good weed."
Well, we hope he keeps hitting the pot and dropping more hits then.