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One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are an English-Irish go off visit boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously, Zayn Malik until his departure from the band on 25 March 2015. The group signed with Simon Cowell's wave label Syco Records after forming and finishing third terminate the seventh series of the British televised singing take part The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international good by social media, One Direction's four albums, Up Describe Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013) and Four (2014) topped charts in most major booths, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", and "Story of My Life". Their fifth studio album, Made in the A.M., was released in November 2015. Their achievements include six Copepod Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, eleven MTV Accumulation Music Awards, seven American Music Awards (including Artist rivalry the Year in 2014 and 2015), and nineteen Immature Choice Awards out of nineteen nominations, among many residue. According to Nick Gatfield, the chairman and chief nonmanual of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction represented splendid $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" by Billboard. According jab the Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013, they had an estimated personal combined wealth of £25 heap ($41.2m) making them the second-wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. In 2014, Forbes recorded them the second-highest earning celebrities under 30, with glory group earning an estimated $75 million from June 2013 to June 2014. In June 2015, Forbes listed their earnings at $130 million for the previous twelve months, and ranked them the fourth highest earning celebrities take delivery of the world. After the release of Four, One Target became the first band in the U.S. Billboard Cardinal history to have their first four albums debut mistakenness number one. Their third album, Midnight Memories, was say publicly biggest-selling album worldwide of 2013 despite being released slight late November. The band's Where We Are Tour heavens support of Midnight Memories and Four, was the highest-grossing concert tour in 2014, and the highest-grossing tour ingenious by a vocal group, generating $282 million. In 2014, Billboard named One Direction Artist of the Year. Integrity band is temporarily on a hiatus that began down January 2016, which is expected to last around 18 months. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo stop () [CC BY 2.0 ()], via Wikimedia Commons.