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One Direction: Pop Band Success Story

One Direction is an English-Irish pop boy band formed in 2010 that consisted of five members: Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and formerly Zayn Malik who left in 2015. They signed with Syco Records after finishing third on the British X Factor in 2010. One Direction achieved massive global success through their five albums and hit singles. Considered teen idols, they embarked on four world tours and were the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history. As of 2020, One Direction has sold over 70 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling boy bands.

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One Direction: Pop Band Success Story

One Direction is an English-Irish pop boy band formed in 2010 that consisted of five members: Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and formerly Zayn Malik who left in 2015. They signed with Syco Records after finishing third on the British X Factor in 2010. One Direction achieved massive global success through their five albums and hit singles. Considered teen idols, they embarked on four world tours and were the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history. As of 2020, One Direction has sold over 70 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling boy bands.

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One Direction, often shortened to 

1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London,


England in 2010. The group are composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis
Tomlinson; former member Zayn Malik departed from the group in March 2015. The group
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 global success by social media,[1][2][3] 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), topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What
Makes You Beautiful" (their first number one on the UK Singles Chart, and the highest debut for
a British act on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 1998), "Live While We're Young", "Best Song
Ever", "Story of My Life" and "Drag Me Down". After the release of Four, One Direction became
the first band in the US Billboard 200 history to have their first four albums debut at number one.
[4]
 Their third album, Midnight Memories, was the best-selling album worldwide of 2013.[5]
Considered teen idols, One Direction were often subject to fan hysteria. [6][7] They have embarked
on four world tours, two of which were all-stadium. The band's Where We Are Tour, in support
of Midnight Memories, was the highest-grossing concert tour in 2014, the highest-grossing tour
by a vocal group in history, and the 15th highest-grossing concert tour of all time, grossing
$290.2 million (unadjusted for inflation). [8] The band went on hiatus in January 2016, allowing all
members to pursue other projects.[9][10]
As of 2020, the band have sold a total of 70 million records worldwide, [11] making them one of
the best-selling boy bands of all time.[12] The band have won nearly 200 awards, including
seven Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, seven American
Music Awards (including Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015), and 28 Teen Choice Awards. In
2013, they earned an estimated $75 million, becoming the second highest earning celebrity
under 30 according to Forbes.[13] Being the world's best-selling artist of 2013, the International
Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) named them the Global Recording Artist of the
Year.[14] In 2014, Billboard named the band "Artist of the Year".[15][16] Forbes ranked them as the
fourth highest-earning celebrities in the world in 2015,[17] and second in 2016.[18]

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