The story of one direction

The story

Overall
One direction is a British-Irish boyband that was formed in 2010 on the x-factor. The band has 5 members: Harry, Niall, Liam, Louis and Zayn. They were set together and won the 3th place in the finals. They went on a hiatus in 2015 and by may 2017, all members had released solo material. By January 2020 all members had released solo albums.

History
In the beginning of 2010 the teenage boys Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik auditioned on the 7th season of the X-Factor in Londen, England. For Liam Payne was this his second audition cause he got send home the first time he tried. The boys auditioned as solo singer but got together by S!mon Cowbell, on July 23 at 8:22pm Londen time.  Harry Styles came up with the name One Direction and One Direction won the favorite act of the 2010 season of X Factor, and the gained a very big fandom whole around the world. Sadly they finished in third place behind runner up Rebecca Ferguson and winner Matt Cardle.

Music
Their first song 'What makes you beautiful' came out august 19 2011 and hit number 1 and the singles chart in the UK. The song selled 153,965 copies in the first week. The song also reached number 1 in Ireland, Mexico and Scotland. They got 4th in the USA but got 1st in US dance club songs. With over 7 million copies sold and it was one of the best selling singles all time. What makes you beautiful was in their first album Up all Night what was released on November 18, 2011 and became one of the best-selling albums of the year. Another song of the album got in the worldwide top ten hit called One Thing. Their first tour called Up All Night Tour begin on december 18 of 2011. The second album is called Take Me Home and was released on the 12th of November in 2012, with the song Live While We're Young reaching 3th on the us billboard hot 100. Another song Little Things soled over 1,000,000 copies and got certified platinum. The Take Me Home Tour started on 23 february 2013. And One Direction's This Is Us debut film got premiered wordwide on august 20 2013. Midnight Memories was their 3th album and got released on november 25 in 2013. Two of the singles called Best Song Ever and Story Of My Life who became worldwide hits and the Where We Are Tour started on april 25 2014. Four was their 4th album and released on november 17 2014. Steal My Girl and Night Changes where the best singles of the album. The On The Road Again Tour stared at the 7th of February in 2015. On March 25 Zayn Malik permanently left One Direction what he announced in a tweet. Malik said that he didn't feld himself anymore and many fans saw that he developed an eating disorder and that he didn't slept well. Louis, Liam, Harry and Niall continued as One Direction. The fifth album Made In The A.M got released on November 13 2015. Three of the most successful songs where Drag Me Down, Perfect and History. Drag Me Down was one of the highest selling songs in 2015. Perfect reached number 1 in 4 countries, 2nd in the UK, 4th in Australia and 10th in the USA. History got 6th in the UK and 3th in Scotland.
One direction was the first band ever to have 4 albums at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 and they sold millions copies in the USA. In 2016 they were the 2nd highest earning celebrities of the year with earning more then 130 million dollar.

Hiatus
On 13 December 2015 one direction went on a hiatus when they last performed as a band on the X-Factor on the grand final episode. They announced the hiatus in a Facebook message and Twitter tweet. In the tweet they said that it was a 'well deserved' break and that that will come back in 18 months. An end date of the hiatus will not be confirmed until every single member is ready to come back.

10 year anniversary
On the 10th birthday of One direction all the fans decided together that they are going to do a so called 'fan project' what was: streaming Drag Me Down and Story of my Live to 1 billion views and making one direction trending on every social media platform. One direction set up a website for their anniversary https://www.10yearsof1d.com. Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles thanked all the fans for their support 10 years long with a Instagram post and a tweet with a personal message. Liam Payne did that day different interviews and talked about one direction the whole day. The official one direction Spotify account released special, never heard, remix and leaked songs and the one direction Instagram account went active again. They also released on YouTube 'special' music videos and behind the scenes videos. After July 23 they went un-active again. The anniversary was worldwide in the news 'cause of the fan project and some other celebrities wished one direction a so called 'happy birthday'.