television appearance on The Today Show, at the Rockefeller Center an estimated 15,000 fans descended on the plaza. in February 2012, One Direction embarked on a radio promotion spree, as well as their first North American concert tour as an opening act for Big Time Rush.
It has sold over 4 million copies in the U.S.
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." "What Makes You Beautiful" was released in the United States in February 2012, where it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28, becoming the highest debut for a British act since 1998. In November 2011, they signed a record deal with Columbia Records in North America. Subsequent singles, " Gotta Be You" and " One Thing", peaked in the UK Singles Chart top ten. Released in September 2011, One Direction's debut single, " What Makes You Beautiful", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, after becoming the most pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment single in history. Recording took place in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, as One Direction worked with producers Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Steve Mac, and Rami Yacoub, among others. After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album. During the tour, the group performed for 500,000 people throughout the UK.
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The same month, the boy band and other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour. A book licensed by One Direction, One Direction: Forever Young (Our Official X Factor Story), was published by HarperCollins in February 2011, subsequently topping The Sunday Times Best Seller list.
Recording for their debut album began in January 2011, as they flew to Los Angeles to work with RedOne, a record producer. Shortly afterwards it was confirmed that One Direction had been signed by Cowell to a reported £2 million Syco Recordsrecord contract. One Direction finished in third place and immediately after the final, their song " Forever Young", which would have been released if they had won The X Factor, was leaked onto the internet. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK. Cowell later commented that their performance convinced him that they "were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well." Within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were his last act in the competition. For their qualifying song at "judges' houses", and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of " Torn". Styles came up with the name One Direction. Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice. In 2013, Cowell said that it "took him 10 minutes to put them together as a group". Nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge, and Simon Cowell have both claimed to have come up with the idea of forming the band. They failed to progress to the "Boys" category at " judges' houses" but were put together to form a five-piece boy band at Wembley Arena, in London, England, in July 2010, during the " bootcamp" stage of the competition, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. In 2010, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson auditioned as solo candidates for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor.
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