one direction
One Direction is a popular British/Irish boy
band originally formed in 2010, on the hit singing competition TV show the
X-Factor U.K. The boy band consists of Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne,
Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan. All five members auditioned as a solo act in
2010, and made it through to boot-camp until they were voted off by the judges.
Just before the five boys left to go back to their normal lives – they were
called back on the stage and put together as a group my one of the judges on
the show; Simon Cowell.
One Direction made it through to the live
performances on the X-Factor, at which fans of the show or fans of constants
vote who they want to win. They were voted off coming in third place. The boy
band – regardless of not coming in third place – were still signed to the music
label SYCO and after releasing their first single, they began to grow in
popularity. Soon – One Direction was known across the globe, and the amount of
fans became larger and larger over time. Their first album Up All Night sold about 176,000 copies within the first week of
being released, and was number one on the U.S Billboard 200 chart. In the U.K,
it was the fastest selling debut album of 2011.
The fame didn’t stop there. Since the X-Factor, One Direction has
been more popular than ever. They have been nominated for sixty awards and one
thirty-six of those awards. They have fans swarming every country. One
Direction has a movie called This Is Us,
which premiered August 30th, 2013. It was extremely popular and
millions of people watched it. One Direction also has two books out, the first
one called Forever Young was
published in 2011, and had over four million copies sold in the U.S. The second
book Where We Are was published in
2013 and had over twenty million copies sold. One Direction had two tours in
the past two years, and are going on a stadium tour in 2014.