One Direction: Reaching for our stars
One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) is the world's biggest boy band. It was an English-Irish boy band with 5 members based in London. The band was composed of Niall Horan,Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and previously, Zayn Malik, until his departure from the band on 25 March 2015.
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| From left: Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne,Louis Tomlinson |
The group signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records. Propelled to international success by social media, One direction's five albums, Up all night (2011), Take me home ( 2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014)and Made in the A.M. (2015) were a great hit. There albums topped charts in most major markets.
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Some of there chart topping songs were: Live while we're young, Story of my life, What makes you beautiful. Personally, One Direction is my favorite band. After Malik's departure the band didn't last long. In 2016, they knew they were going there own ways.
Niall was the fastest one to decide what to do next. He signed a record deal with Capital Records and released his first song. This Town. He has no album name but he will be naming it soon. The next one was Harry.
He did a collab with Meghan Trainor. He sang Someday Maybe . Zayn had already blown off the world with Pillowtalk.
AWARDS
There awards include six brits, Four MTV video music awards, MTV Europe Music awards, Seven American music awards, 27 Teen Choice Awards among many others.They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New artist" By Billboard.
FAME
After the release of Four, One Direction became the first band in the U.S. history to have their first four albums debut at number one. Their third album, Midnight Memories, was the biggest-selling album worldwide of 2013 despite being released in late November. The band's Where we are Tour in support of Midnight Memories and Four, was the highest- grossing tour in 2014, and the highest-grossing tour ever by a vocal group, generating $282 million. In 2014, Billboard named One Direction Artist of the Year.
The band is temporarily on a hiatus that began in January 2016, which is expected to last around 18 months.
