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During One Direction's appearance on Sesame Street in its 45th season, they parodied "What Makes You Beautiful" with the song "What Makes "U" Useful". [ 178 ] Benjamin Stockham (playing for the 11-year-old character Marcus Bowa) performed that tune in his school talent show on the pilot episode of NBC television series About a Boy broadcast on ...
One Direction in 2012 British-Irish boy band One Direction including Harry Styles , Niall Horan , Louis Tomlinson , Liam Payne , Zayn Malik have recorded material for five studio albums . Apart from their album songs, the band has released several non-album singles, such as the charity singles " One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) " and " God ...
Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub, and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around their tones. [74] One Direction began recording the album in May 2012, in Stockholm at Kinglet Studios.
One Direction's first hit single "What Makes You Beautiful" will hit 1 billion streams on Spotify. Liam Payne reflects on it in a new Instagram post.
In the United States, One Direction performed "What Makes You Beautiful", "More than This" and "One Thing" on The Today Show at the Rockefeller Center on 12 March 2012. An estimated 15,000 fans descended on the plaza. [38] They also performed "What Makes You Beautiful" at the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards on 31 March 2012. [39]
Falk, Kotecha, and Yacoub had collaboratively composed One Direction's previous hit singles, "What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", and "Live While We're Young". [2] In April 2012, The Independent reported that Simon Cowell, the group's manager, had challenged prominent songwriters to compete for space on One Direction's second album. [3]
In addition, after viewing the international success of "What Makes You Beautiful", the trio conceptualised songs "that kids could play on guitar and cover on YouTube." [8] After extensive promotional appearances in support of their debut album, One Direction began recording the album in May 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden, at Kinglet Studios.
The song marks their second top ten hit and was One Direction's third best-selling track in the UK by August 2012. [ 7 ] [ 17 ] Upon the release of Up All Night in the United States, "Gotta Be You" did not enter the US Billboard Hot 100 , but peaked at number 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the week of 28 April 2012.