• One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) is a British pop boy bandbased in London, composed of 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 theseventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factorin 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".
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