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One Direction’s global smash debut album, Up All Night, entered the charts at #1 in 15 countries and has been certified triple platinum in Ireland and double platinum in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. One Direction made history as their debut album Up All Night entered the US Billboard 200 chart at #1 with over 176,000 copies sold making them the first British group ever to debut at #1 in the US with their debut album release. Their debut single What Makes You Beautiful has recently been certified platinum in the US for sales in excess of 1,000,000 units.
Although all five members of One Direction, (Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson) auditioned for the UK X-Factor in 2010 as solo artists, they soon joined forces as a group and quickly became one of the competitions most popular acts of all time, finishing in the final three and garnering a gigantic fan-base along the way.
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