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One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, comprised of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's four albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013) and Four (2014) broke records, topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Story of My Life" and "Steal My Girl".