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MTV Europe Music Award for Best UK & Ireland Act
MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act
MTV Europe Music Award for Biggest Fans
MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video
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🎧 3,398,533 listeners
▶ 330,853,914 plays
Wikipedia
One Direction, often shortened to 1D, were an English–Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010. The group consisted of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik (until his departure in 2015). The group sold over 70 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
Formed on the British singing competition show The X Factor in 2010, the group were propelled to global success by social media. One Direction's debut single "What Makes You Beautiful" was a commercial and international success, reaching number one on the UK singles chart and being performed by the band at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. They became the first British act to have their debut album top the charts on the Billboard 200 with Up All Night (2011), and subsequently became the first band to have their first four albums debut at number one following the releases of Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), and Four (2014). The band's fifth and final album prior to their hiatus was Made in the A.M. (2015).
Considered teen idols, One Direction were often subject to fan hysteria comparable to Beatlemania. They embarked on four world tours, two of which were all–stadium. The band's Where We Are Tour, in support of Midnight Memories, was the highest-grossing concert tour of 2014 and the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history, grossing $290 million. They have supported various charities, raising millions for causes like cancer research and autism, and spreading awareness of global issues such as poverty and climate change.
Worth over $1 billion, the band won nearly 200 awards, including seven Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, and seven American Music Awards. As the world's best-selling artist of 2013, the group were named the Global Recording Artist of the Year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. In 2014, Billboard named the band the Artist of the Year. Forbes ranked them as the fourth highest-earning celebrities in the world in 2015 and subsequently in second in 2016. The band went on an indefinite hiatus in January 2016, allowing all members to pursue solo projects.
🤝 Collaborations (82)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
One Direction has 82 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 16 featured, 5 producer, 2 bandmates, 14 production & engineering, 7 instrumentalists, 38 other. Active 2010–2015.
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🎵 Top Tracks popularity ranked · Genius
⭐ Known For
Up All Night
▶ 48,582,841
FOUR (Deluxe)
▶ 66,271,912
Midnight Memories (Deluxe)
▶ 55,878,464
Made in the A.M. (Deluxe Edition)
▶ 56,486,337
Take Me Home (Expanded Edition)
▶ 31,257,866
Take Me Home: Yearbook Edition
▶ 18,036,045
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Made in the A.M.
2015
Four
2014
Where We Are: Live from San Siro Stadium
2014
Midnight Memories
2013
ONE DIRECTION: This Is Us
2013
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