One Direction - Story Of My Life
Propelled to global success by social media,[1][2][3] One Direction's five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015), topped charts in several countries, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful" (their first number one on the UK Singles Chart, and the highest debut for a British act on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 1998), "Live While We're Young", "Best Song Ever", "Story of My Life" and "Drag Me Down". After the release of Four, One Direction became the first band in the US Billboard 200 history to have their first four albums debut at number one.[4] Their third album, Midnight Memories, was the best-selling album worldwide of 2013.[5]
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Considered teen idols, One Direction were often subject to fan hysteria.[6][7] 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 in 2014, the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history, and the 15th highest-grossing concert tour of all time, grossing $290.2 million (unadjusted for inflation).[8] The band went on indefinite hiatus in January 2016, allowing all members to pursue other projects.[9][10]
Released in September 2011 in the UK and Ireland, One Direction's debut single, "What Makes You Beautiful", was a commercial and international success. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart after becoming the most pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment single in history.[38][39] Subsequent singles, "Gotta Be You" and "One Thing", peaked in the UK Singles Chart top ten.[40][41] In November 2011, they signed a record deal with Columbia Records in North America.[42] Steve Barnett, the co-chairman of Columbia Records, said it was not a difficult decision to sign One Direction; "I just thought there was a void, and maybe they could seize and hold it."[43] That same month, they released Up All Night, their debut studio album, in the UK and Ireland. Critically commended for its appeal to the teenage audience,[44][45][46] it became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of 2011.[47] In December 2011, they embarked on their first headlining UK concert tour, the Up All Night Tour.[48]
In September 2012, "Live While We're Young", the lead single from the group's second album, was released, and was a global success. It reached the top ten in almost every country it charted in and recorded the highest one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-US artist in the US.[79] A second single, "Little Things", resulted in the band's second number one single in the UK.[80] In November 2012, One Direction's second studio album, Take Me Home, was released.[81] Take Me Home sold 540,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuted atop the Billboard 200, and topped the charts in more than thirty-four other countries.[82][83] Additionally, Up All Night and Take Me Home were the number three and number four best-selling albums of 2012 globally, each album selling over 4.4 million units worldwide.[84] Upon reaching number one on the Billboard 200, the group became the first boy band in US chart history to record two number-one albums in the same calendar year alongside becoming the first group since 2008 to record two number-one albums in the same year.[85] One Direction became the first group ever to have their first two albums reach atop the Billboard 200.[86] The album and "Little Things" both debuted at number one in the UK simultaneously, making One Direction the youngest act in British chart history to achieve that.[87]
In December 2013, One Direction broke yet another UK sales record with the DVD and Blu-ray release of This Is Us. Nearly 270,000 copies of the film were sold in the UK within three days of its release, beating the record previously set by Michael Jackson's This Is It in 2010 by 10,000 copies.[124] The group was named among the Top Global artists of 2013 by the IFPI because of strong digital downloads, physical albums, on-demand streams, and music videos.[125] In 2013, they became the first boy band in history to gross $1 billion dollars.[126]
On 8 September 2014, One Direction announced their fourth studio album to be titled Four, set to be released on 17 November 2014.[132][133][134] As part of the announcement, one of the songs from the album, "Fireproof" was released for free download for 24 hours on their official website.[132][133][134] "Steal My Girl", the album's lead single, was released on 29 September 2014,[135]receiving critical acclaim for its classic rock sound.[136] The second single from the album, "Night Changes", was released on 14 November, three days before the album's release. It also achieve platinum status, selling over one million units in the United States.[137] Four was released on 17 November 2014, topping the Billboard 200 and the UK Album Chart.[138][139] In total, in debuted at number one in 18 countries, selling 3.2 million copies.[140] It became the top charted album on iTunes in 67 countries.[141] One Direction became the only group in the 58-year history of the Billboard 200 albums chart to have their first four albums debut at number one.[142] In February 2015, the group embarked on their fourth world tour and second all-stadium tour, the On the Road Again Tour,[143] grossing $208 million, making it the second highest-grossing tour of 2015.[144]
At the 2017 Brit Awards, One Direction won the Video of the Year award for their song "History". Payne, the only member in attendance, accepted the award on the behalf of the band.[167] In February 2018, it was reported that the group had folded its touring company after applying for removal within the Companies House registry in October 2017.[168][169]
One Direction was widely considered the biggest boy band in the world with band "barreling into international success" and falling into "seemingly effortless superstardom".[252] Their main "competitor," in terms of boy bands, was The Wanted, who formed in 2009 (one year prior to One Direction), with many expecting a "rivalry" between the two groups similar to the one between NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys.[252] However, in a 2014 story by Billboard, they wrote "the boy band war was over before it even began" and that "the boy band war was not a war at all; it had been a one-sided stomping".[252] The Wanted went on indefinite hiatus in 2014, and they cited One Direction's global success as part of the reason, saying "One Direction are a phenomenon that no one else can compete with" and "For The Wanted to try and compete against one of the biggest bands in the world ... it's almost impossible".[253][254]
One Direction's rise to fame has been called "meteoric" with the group becoming the first British band to ever have their debut album top the US charts.[247] Forbes noted that their "meteoric rise has surpassed any other boy band in history, NSYNC included".[244] During their continued rise in the United States in 2012, the mania surrounding the group was dubbed "One Direction Infection".[255] That same year, "1D World" stores were opened around the United States as the group worked on their second studio album to meet the high demand for the band and "to give fans the ultimate One Direction experience".[256] Part of the group's rise to popularity was their "atypical construct" in the sense that they don't dance, rarely wear matching outfits, and are heavily tattooed, all three which were rare in boybands of the past.[257] The Huffington Post added that they didn't just sing cheesy ballads" and instead "embraced their differences".[246] Slate noted that One Direction portrayed more of a "joking" and "fun" manner in their songs, music videos, and individual personas when compared to boy bands of the past.[258] They were credited with breaking "the boy band mold."[259] Despite their differences in that regard, the group still used an approach pioneered by The Beatles in which each member was applied a persona; Horan as "the cute Irish one", Malik as "the quiet and mysterious one", Payne as "the sensible one", Styles as "the charming flirt" and Tomlinson as "the funny one".[260] TMRW Magazine wrote in a 2020 story that the group "helped defy traits typically associated with toxic masculinity" and that "their friendship set them apart, made them more real".[261]
On 22 July 2020, One Direction posted on their Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts an image with the words "10 Years of One Direction" and the caption "Tomorrow! You and me got a whole lot of history #10YearsOf1D" in anticipation of their tenth anniversary the following day. The Instagram post received 7.5 million likes. The tweet received 1.8 million likes and the hashtag "10YearsofOneDirection" trended on Twitter.[275]
One Direction traveled back in time to their childhoods in their [article id="1716710"]"Story of My Life" video[/article]. The visual gave the guys the chance to re-create some of their real-life childhood photos as adults, with their families joining them for the experience.
The clip was shot several months ago in London in an underground theater very few people know about. "Absolutely everything you see in the video is real; there was no green screening at all," Winston said. "All that big, wide area was true. Every single photo in the back of those shots is real, legitimate, of the boys when they were younger. If you want to zoom into any single photo, you'll be able to find a frozen moment in time of the story of their lives."
"Harry [Styles] has a hugely close relationship with his mom and she's a big [part of] his life," Winston added. "And it was important for me to try and find a photo of those two together because I think that's a relationship that's very lovely."
"I thought it was a gorgeous photo and then I phoned Louis' mom... and she said 'Well, it will be difficult because his great grandma and his great grandpa, who are in that photo, unfortunately are no longer alive.' It gave me the idea that actually that is part of life," he said. "That's part of the circle of life. [It's a] sweet, moving moment." 041b061a72