There's No Other, Only One Direction
Saturday, 27 December 2014 posted at 05:49
One
Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are a British pop boy band based in London, comprising Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis
Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's
record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in
the seventh series of the British televised singing
competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international
success by social media,
One Direction's four albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight
Memories (2013)
and Four (2014)
broke records, topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles
including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Story of My Life" and
"Steal My Girl".
Their
achievements include
four Brit Awards,
four MTV Video Music Awards and eleven MTV Europe Music Awards among many others. According to Nick
Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction
represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's
"Top New Artist" by Billboard. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013,
they had an estimated personal combined wealth of £25 million ($41.2m)
making them the second-wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. In 2014, Forbes listed them the second-highest earning
celebrities under 30, with the group earning an estimated $75 million from June
2013 to June 2014.
After the release
of Four, One Direction
became the first band in the U.S. Billboard 200 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 later November. In 2014, Billboard named One Direction as the top artist
of the year.
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