The boy band comprises the Irish Niall Horan and Brits Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. Their age range is only from 18 to 20. The group was organized when all five boys had auditioned and were accepted to the prelims of the UK's X Factor. Nicole Scherzinger, an X Factor guest judge, suggested the boys form a group when things weren't looking up for them individually in the competition. Styles suggested the name One Direction, because he thought it would sound good when X Factor announcer Peter Dickson said it at the live shows. Simon Cowell took them on his team, and they made it to third place in the competition.
Cowell signed the group to Syco Records after X Factor, and their career has taken off. After joining the X Factor live tour, they released their smash debut single "What Makes You Beautiful" in September 2011. It reached #1 in the UK and #4 in the U.S. and earned them a Brit Award for Best British Single. Debut album Up All Night made them the first UK group to debut at #1 in the United States. Up All Night reached #1 in fifteen countries. The first four tracks of the album have been released as singles, three of which reached the top 10 in the UK. Up All Night consists of upbeat teen pop and dance pop. They went on the Up All Night Tour that circled the globe and came to the U.S. from May to July 1 of this year.
They have recently been recording their next album, of which they hope to contribute to some of the songwriting, and plan to release its lead single in September, followed by another world tour starting in February.
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