It is part of the wider campaign, a global citizen's movement that is all about the idea that 2015 can be the year when the world can set the agenda to end major global issues | We're trying to do different kinds of music and we're just trying to be ourselves, not squeaky clean |
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We're trying to do something different from what people would think is the typical kind of boy band | As part of their involvement with the UK charity, One Direction travelled to Ghana to volunteer at a children's hospital, visit a school and make donations |
The revealed that One Direction had sold 2,425,000 records in the UK by February 2013.
26One Direction's first book to be licensed in America, Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction, published in the US in May 2012, topped | As of 2020, the band have sold a total of 70 million records worldwide, making them one of the |
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One Direction began recording the album in May 2012, in Stockholm at Kinglet Studios | In 2014, named the band "Artist of the Year" |
The lawsuit claimed that Syco and Sony Music "chose to ignore the plaintiff's rights and wilfully infringed them" after they realised in early 2011 that the two bands shared the same name.
14The band went on hiatus in January 2016, allowing all members to pursue other projects | Take Me Home garnered mixed reviews from |
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To promote the album, the band performed on both the and versions of The X Factor | Their third album Midnight Memories 2013 is a pop rock record, a slight departure from the band's original teen pop sound |
Melody Lau of the wrote, "It's easy to get lost in inherent appeal of their perfectly coiffed dos and almost-too-put-together preppy style but somewhere in the midst of all the love-struck squeals of teenage girls are guys who can actually sing and, to a certain extent, entertain.
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