One Direction's third album, Midnight Memories, was released on November 25, 2013, and presented a rockier sound from the band, as well as a departure from the bubblegum pop sound and lyrics. On August 20, 2013, One Direction's debut concert film, This Is Us, premiered worldwide.
One Direction embarked on their second headlining tour, the Take Me Home Tour, on February 23, 2013. The singles Live While We're Young, Kiss You and Little Things all found immense success, with Live While We're Young debuting at #3 on the United States Billboard Hot 100, and Little Things being certified platinum after shipping 1,000,000 copies. The band's second album Take Me Home was released on November 12, 2012. One Direction embarked on their first headlining tour, the Up All Night Tour, on December 18, 2011. Three more singles were released - Gotta Be You, One Thing and More Than This - with One Thing becoming a worldwide top ten hit. Their debut album Up All Night was released on Novemand became one of the best-selling albums of the year. It is one of the best selling singles of all time, with over 7 million copies sold worldwide. It peaked at #4 in the United States, but reached #1 on the US Dance Club Songs chart. The song also reached #1 in Ireland, Mexico and Scotland. It became the third fastest selling single of 2011, selling 153,965 copies. One Direction's debut single, " What Makes You Beautiful" was released on 11 September 2011, and debuted on the United Kingdom Singles Chart at #1 on September 18, 2011. Simon Cowell signed One Direction to his record label, Syco Music, on December 13th, 2010. Ultimately, they finished in third place behind runner up Rebecca Ferguson and winner Matt Cardle. One Direction were the favorite act to win throughout the 2010 season of X Factor, generating massive unprecedented fan and media hype. In August 2010, all five members of One Direction spent two weeks living at Harry's father's bungalow in Cheshire, England. These contestants were placed into two groups, allowing them all to continue competing. Simon Cowell and three other judges decided the groups were not evenly split that year, and decided to call back ten eliminated solo contestants. Each soloist succeeded through to the bootcamp stage, but all were eliminated at its conclusion. For Louis Tomlinson, it was his third audition process and his first to qualify past the initial producer's auditions, which took place in April 2010. Payne had first auditioned in 2008, but was eliminated during the judge's houses portion, due to his age and inexperience. For Liam Payne, it was his second audition process. In early 2010, teenagers Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik auditioned as solo performers for the seventh season of British reality/talent show, The X Factor (UK).
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