How the band was formed!!
One Direction is a boy band that was formed by Simon Cowell on The Xfactor, the five boys originally audition as solo artists. But when they didn't make it though stage three Simon Cowell did not want great talent to go to waste, so he put Liam, Niall, Harry, Louis and Zayn in a band together. Simon invited all of the contestants to his house to preforme infront of the judges but if they weren't good enough they would send them home, but the moment all the boys sang together Simon knew he had made something special and on that day One Direction was born! Though all the shows the made it though week after week, until the semi finals One Direction was up agianst some tough competition One Direction's preformance was amazing they thought that they would win but at the end of the show they were told that they had come in third. But at the end of the show Simon had told everyone that this would not be the last that they had seen of One Direction. After the show Simon had told the boys the tommorrow they were being signed to Sony Records! The boys heart filled with joy and that was when their first single was released What Makes You Beautiful. Oh and it was huge everyone knew it it was at the top the charts in so many countries.(Pictures of the boys on Xfactor at the bottom of this page and the song What Makes You Beautiful)