One Direction's 2015 music video for "Drag Me Down" has passed one billion views on YouTube, seven years after its release. By Rania Aniftos As the title of their latest music video to hit a billion ...

The death of Liam Payne, once part of One Direction, was a dark and abrupt turn for a person in a boy band that reinvigorated the pop-music industry. On Wednesday, multiple outlets reported that Payne ...

The Beatles were a magical band. Paul McCartney and John Lennon found it easy to write songs together in the early days, and those shared hits helped propel the band to international fame and a slew ...

One Direction garnered comparisons to the Backstreet Boys simply for being the most popular boy band to debut since the 1990s. Furthermore, One Direction ripped off the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It ...

United by fate (and by The X Factor), One Direction brought Beatlemania into the social media age. By Meghan Mahar With the first quarter of the 21st century coming to a close, Billboard is spending ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Recording artists Harry Styles ...

Liam Payne, a former member of the preeminent 2010s boy band One Direction, died on October 16 at the age of 31. In his short and fairly troubled post-1D career, he never fully slotted into his own ...

Hear Me Out is a column dedicated to earnest reevaluations of those cast-off bits of pop-cultural ephemera that deserve a second look. Whether they’re films, TV series, albums, comedy specials, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1D has hit 1B — again. More than a decade after its release, the music video for One Direction's "Night Changes" has surpassed a ...

Numbers tell the One Direction story through ticket and music sales, chart positions and digital downloads. The pop-singing success of young Englishmen Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis ...