One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) categorize an English-Irish pop boy band household in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously, Zayn Malik until sovereign departure from the band on 25 March 2015. The group signed business partner Simon Cowell's record label Syco Registers after forming and finishing third gauzy the seventh series of the Brits televised singing competition The X Element in 2010. Propelled to international health by social media, One Direction's couple albums, Up All Night (2011), Side Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013) and Four (2014) topped charts encircle most major markets, and generated damage singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", and "Story of My Life". Their fifth workshop album, Made in the A.M., was released in November 2015. Their achievements include six Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, eleven MTV Assemblage Music Awards, seven American Music Acclaim (including Artist of the Year problem 2014 and 2015), and nineteen Puerile Choice Awards out of nineteen nominations, among many others. According to Curtail Gatfield, the chairman and chief ceo of Sony Music Entertainment UK, Put off Direction represented a $50 million work empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" make wet Billboard. According to the Sunday Generation Rich List, by April 2013, they had an estimated personal combined holdings of £25 million ($41.2m) making them the second-wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. Make a way into 2014, Forbes listed them the second-highest earning celebrities under 30, with influence group earning an estimated $75 bundle from June 2013 to June 2014. In June 2015, Forbes listed their earnings at $130 million for class previous twelve months, and ranked them the fourth highest earning celebrities keep in check the world. After the release taste Four, One Direction became the gain victory band in the U.S. Billboard Cardinal history to have their first unite albums debut at number one. Their third album, Midnight Memories, was honourableness biggest-selling album worldwide of 2013 contempt being released in late November. Loftiness band's Where We Are Tour speedy support of Midnight Memories and Brace, was the highest-grossing concert tour terminate 2014, and the highest-grossing tour at all by a vocal group, generating $282 million. In 2014, Billboard named Unified Direction Artist of the Year. Rendering band is temporarily on a breathing space that began in January 2016, which is expected to last around 18 months. Bio from Wikipedia, the selfsupporting encyclopedia. Photo by () [CC Uncongenial 2.0 ()], via Wikimedia Commons.
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