One Direction is an English-Irish boy band formed in 2010 who won the NME Award for Worst Band and whose single, "What Makes You Beautiful" ranked 1st in the UK and Irish chart in 2011
One Direction, often shortened to 1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London, England in 2010. "What Makes You Beautiful" performed considerably well worldwide, but especially so in the British Isles, debuting at number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 15 September 2011; its B-side, "Na Na Na" also entered at number 27. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 on 18 September 2011, shifting 153,965 copies that weekthe highest first-week UK sales for any song in 2011 at the time. 
