LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 11: (L-R) Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne of X-Factor band One Direction attend the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 World ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Recording artists Harry Styles ...

One Direction have amassed a relatively hefty discography in their five-year tenure as the most in-demand boy band on Earth. Pushed well beyond their collective limits of exhaustion, they're currently ...

In July 2010, Simon Cowell waved his wand, and five teenage boys from England and Ireland became some of the biggest pop stars on the planet. From their first performance on The X Factor to their last ...

A bathroom figures significantly in the origin stories of at least two classic One Direction songs. The first will be familiar to any fan: Songwriter and producer Savan Kotecha was sitting on the ...

Liam Payne, a former member of the preeminent 2010s boy band One Direction, died on October 16 at the age of 31. In his short and fairly troubled post-1D career, he never fully slotted into his own ...

On July 23, 2010, there was a ripple across the pond. During production of the seventh series of the U.K.’s The X Factor, five young lads—Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis ...