Judges’ House Stage: One Direction selected
One Direction goe through to the finals after singing Natalie Imbruglia’s ”Torn” to Cowell and Sinitta in Spain.
X-Factor Week 8
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.
X-Factor Week 9 (semi-final)
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.
What Makes You Beautiful breaks pre-order record
0 CommentsOne 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.
Sweep BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards
0 CommentsThe 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.
One Direction interview
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.
No.5 on under-30s UK rich list
0 CommentsThe 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.
Seventeen cover
One 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.
Little Things performance
One Direction performs Little Things during The Ellen Show to promote their album Take Me Home.
What Makes You Beautiful performance
One Direction performs What Makes You Beautiful during The Ellen Show to promote their album Up All Night.
Teen Vogue cover
The 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.’
Little Things performance
One Direction performs Little Things at the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball from their album Take Me Home.
Kiss You performance
One Direction performs Kiss You at Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball from their album Take Me Home.
What Makes You Beautiful performance
One Direction performs What Makes You Beautiful during Capital FM’S Jingle Bell Ball from their album Up All Night.
Anna Todd’s After series
0 Comments25 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.
Kiss You performance
One Direction performs Kiss You during the NRJ Awards to promote their album Take Me Home.
One Way Or Another performance
One Direction performs One Way Or Another the during the Brit Awards to promote their album Midnight Memories.
Glamour cover
The 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.
Best Song Ever performance
One Direction performs Best Song Ever during the semifinal results show on America’s Got Talent from their album Midnight Memories.
Teen Vogue cover
The 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.