One Direction mattered. They mattered to millions of fans who bought their albums, memorized their lyrics, and attended their concerts. And because One Direction mattered, Liam Payne mattered. Liam — ...

One Direction dominated the music scene in the 2010s. The boy band achieved unprecedented success early on in their career, topping international charts and amassing a devoted global fan base within ...

Rewinding to the days before One Direction was a global pop sensation, longtime fans might recall goofy video diaries that inspired plenty of inside jokes, silly dance moves and Liam Payne being the ...

Harry Styles' contributed to some of the best One Direction songs. When Styles broke away into singles success from his original humble beginnings as a boy band member, the major pop star (and ...

Fans didn’t know it, but One Direction released their last album with all five members in November 2014. With the record, tilted Four — a possible foreshadowing of what was to come — Harry Styles, ...

Payne and Tomlinson also co-wrote a majority of the band’s fourth album Four in 2014 with songwriters Julian Bunetta, John Ryan, and Jamie Scott. Throughout his time with One Direction, Payne’s ...