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 ...

The British boy band One Direction may not be performing live on NBC‘s Today Show until tomorrow, but fans have been lining up outside Rockefeller Plaza since Thursday, Nov. 8. Loyal “directioners”—as ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11 Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Harry Styles of One Direction attends the BBC Music Awards at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre on December 11, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over nine years since the sensational boy band announced its indefinite hiatus and nearly a year since Liam Payne’s death, two ...

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, ...

Following the One Direction member's death at the age of 31 from a fatal fall off a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, his friends and family have been paying tribute to the singer. And while ...