

Australian tour dates were announced on April 18, 2012, and New Zealand dates were announced the following day. Tickets went on sale to the general public on April 21, 2012. North American tour dates were announced on Apby Liam when he called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest. Tickets went on sale on Februand sold out quickly. It was originally announced as a UK and Ireland arena tour, but was expanded to a world tour with the announcement of North American dates in the summer, and Australasian dates in the fall. One Direction's 2013 World Tour was announced on Februafter winning their BRIT award. " Kiss You" Promotion Live performances 2012 Take Me Home went to #1 in more than 35 countries and sold over 4 million copies, making it the fourth best selling album of 2012.

In June 2012, Niall spoke to MTV News, stating they intended to spend July and August "getting the album done." The group also partly recorded the album in the United States, while completing the final leg of their Up All Night Tour. Primary recording began in May 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden. One Direction began songwriting more extensively for this album, with each band member landing several writing credits on various tracks. In June 2012, Ed Sheeran confirmed he had written two songs with the band, " Little Things" and " Over Again". In February 2012, One Direction expressed interest in collaborating with Ed Sheeran again, after teaming up with him for " Moments". In March 2012, Tom Fletcher (McFly frontman) confirmed that he would be writing a song for the album, having previously written " I Want", for the band's debut album Up All Night. The collaboration was proved successful and led to Bone Thugs naming Collins an honorary member of the band under the name “Chrome Bone”.One Direction announced in early 2012 that they had began working on their second album. In making the music video of the song Home, which features the original Take Me Home chorus, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony flew all the way from the United States to Geneva, Switzerland in order to shoot the video with Collins, who had asked them to come to Geneva if they wanted to feature him on the video. Over the years, the song has been covered and sampled by a number of famous artists, most notably on the song Home by the American rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
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The song has appeared in a number of TV series, including Robot and Miami Vice.

