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One Direction is an Anglo-Irish boy band whose members are Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell’s record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of British television singing competition The X Factor in 2010.

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27 Nov, 2010

X-Factor Week 8

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The band’s first performance is Bryan Adam’s Summer of ’69. The second performance is Joe Cocker’s You are so Beautiful puts them through to the semi final. The band also appears on a Charity single.

One Direction sing Summer of '69 - The X Factor Live show 8 - itv.com/xfactor

One Direction sing You Are So Beautiful - The X Factor Live show 8 (Full Version)

4 Dec, 2010

X-Factor Week 9 (semi-final)

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The band sings Rihanna’s Only Girl in the World. Cowell is not available to mentor the band as he is sick. Malik’s grandmother dies so he misses rehearsals for the second performance , Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars.

The band attends the premiere for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

One Direction sing Only Girl In The World - The X Factor Live Semi-Final (Full Version)

One Direction sing Chasing Cars - The X Factor Live Semi-Final (Full Version)

19 Aug, 2011

What Makes You Beautiful breaks pre-order record

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One Direction’s debut single, What Makes You Beautiful, breaks Sony Music Label’s pre-order sales record. A representative of Simon Cowell confirms the sales. The single is set to officially release in September.

7 Oct, 2012

Sweep BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards

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The band gets the award for Best British Single for One Thing and Best British Album for their debut album Up All Night. The hat-trick comes after the boys take over Radio 1 the previous day to drum up support ahead of the ceremony.

10 Oct, 2012

One Direction interview

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Seacrest interviews One Direction during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks them if they relate to The Beatles. Harry Styles:

We watched a film of The Beatles when they first touched down in America and we saw a real likeness with our personalities.

Niall Horan:

They loved having a laugh, like us.

23 Oct, 2012

No.5 on under-30s UK rich list

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The band is estimated to have amassed a fortune of £26.33million between them, according to Heat magazine. The quintet are this year’s highest new entry, having secured a Pepsi endorsement deal worth an estimated £11m in September.

The highest earner is Daniel Radcliffe with a £53.33m fortune due to his West End and Broadway show Equus, and movies How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and horror film The Woman In Black. Twilight star Robert Pattinson is in second place with estimated earnings of £38.733m.

1 Nov, 2012

Seventeen cover

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one-direction-covers-seventeen-november-2012One Direction appears on the cover of the November 2012 issue of Seventeen magazine. They talk about Demi Lovato, Harry being girl crazy, and dealing with bullies. Liam says:

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

1 Dec, 2012

Teen Vogue cover

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one-direction-08The members of One Direction appear on their own individual covers of the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. They talk about obsessive fans, staying grounded, and performing at Los Angeles Staples Center. Styles says:

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket, and I found it and was like, ‘There you go.’ And she said, ‘If you’d had my phone, you’d have had to meet up with me to give it back.’

2013

Anna Todd’s After series

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25 year old Texas college student, Anna Todd, publishes the first chapter to the After series. She uses Wattpad, a storytelling app that gives updates to subscribers when new chapters are added. Thirteen seconds after the first chapter uploads, it receives a comment. The next day, it receives 10,000 comments. The story follows a young woman named Tessa and her encounters with Harry and the other One Direction band members. About her writing, Todd comments:

Just write what comes to you…I barely ever reread the chapter before posting because I over think things and I feel like over-editing or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

1 Aug, 2013

Glamour cover

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01-one-direction-rosie-huntington-whiteley-glamour-cover-h724The members of One Direction and Huntington appear on the cover of the August 2013 issue of Glamour magazine. The cover photo was taken by Irwin. Zayn Malik:

We didn’t want to just follow the boy-band formula. We didn’t want to do any dancing. We just wanted to be five dudes in a band.

1 Sep, 2013

Teen Vogue cover

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one-direction-03The members of One Direction appears on the cover of the September 2013 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. They talk about being in Miami and their fans. Niall says:

I don’t see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.