THEY'VE owned 2013, now One Direction has received the perfect Christmas present - three months off.

The Sun is reporting that the boys with the best hair in music have struck a deal with their puppet-masters (er, managers), which means they will not be back at work until mid-March to begin tour rehearsals.

In 2013, their never-ending Take Me Home tour saw them play a staggering 131 shows, and prompted Rolling Stone to quip they were being "worked like dogs".

A source close to the band told The Sun: "The lads are dead on their feet. They’ve completed a huge world tour and done endless promo in between.

"They approached management to work out a deal. Given their success, they could hardly disagree and understood entirely. It was all sorted on good terms."

The band — Harry Styles, 19, Zayn Malik, 20, Niall Horan, 20, Liam Payne, 20, and Louis Tomlinson, 21 — have gone their separate ways over the holiday break to spend time with family and girlfriends (no wonder, they’re probably sick of each other).

The band’s 2014 Where We Are Tour, which kicks off in April, will see them tour South America for the first time, as well as North America and Europe.

There are currently 65 dates planned.