One direction performed one song each week for 9 weeks before going to the XFACTOR finals.
1st week: viva la vida- safe
2nd week- my life would be stuck without you- safe
3rd week:nobody knows- safe
4th week: total eclipse of the heart -safe
5th week-kids in America- safe
6th week- something about the way you look tonight- safe
7th week- all you need is love- safe
8th week- summer of 69 and you are so beautiful - safe
9th week (aka semi finals)- chasing cars- safe!!
Week 10(finals)- your song, torn ,and she is the one(with robie willams)- ELIMINATED.(Every XFACTOR performance 1d👇🏻👇🏻)
In the first four weeks one direction gained popularity in the u.k, but alas like all great thing must come to an end.They lost to Rebecca for the spot earring them the third place, do we remember the quote." We are definitely going to stick together, UMM, this isn't the last of one direction"Well Zayn was right."Forever Young" UMM, okay I will stop, I sound like a dying donkey.All jokes aside, "forever young" one direction song that was supposed to be released if they had won Factor gotten leaked into the internet, shortly afterwards, we found out that Simon made them sign to a approximate €2 million SYCO RECORDS record contract.After all this we should be able to know that they are starting their first album, the began their debut album recordings, on January 11, 2011, they flew to LA to work with RED ONE, a record producer.A book documentary just like this one was published by one direction, writer Harper Collins, about their x factor journey. Soon the book become the SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER LIST.The same month(jan2011) : the boys and other contestants from the previous series participated on the Factor live tour, where they preformed for 500, 000 people throughout u.k.After the short tour ended at April 2011, the boys continued to work on their debut album.Let's give some credit to Carl Falk, Savan kotecha, Steve mac, and rami Jacob for helping them write their songs for the album.The recordings took place in Stockholm, London, and LA.The boys didn't write much songs in their first album but you can't blame them they had no experience, what amazes me is that they didn't just gives up , they are pushing to their own limit
Fun facts
● liam and harry both selected the same song on the pre-determined list, "stop crying you heart out"
● ZAYN PRE-DETERMINED list wasnt broadcasted, which is not fair for the zayn girls
● only harry , liam, and niall was shown crying after being rejected
● zayn name wasnt spelled with a "y" but with a "i"
● when simon found out he was going to mentor one direction, and other groups he said " I really got the worst one ever, and I dont want to work with people I dont believe in"Wow SImoN.