One Direction's split news sees memes erupt on Twitter and fans meltdown

One Direction have been a boyband of atypical design, thrown together arbitrarily in a reality show instead of precisely generated in a laboratory somewhere in Orlando or Manchester. Their music is also relatively incongruous to their station: instead

One Direction to Take a Year Long Break The guys from One Direction – Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan – are reportedly taking a year long break from the band beginning in March…

Now there are reports One Direction are going to take a year out after five years of recording, touring and promoting the band around the world. Liam told Free Radio in the West Midlands: "I think everyone needs a little bit of a break now, and a sit

“They make my friends and me so happy,” a One Direction fan called Lucy, aged around 14, told Radio 1's Newsbeat this morning. “And they write all their own stuff.” Overcome by the thought of the Directionless year ahead, she began to cry. The average 

It's been five years since One Direction were formed by Simon Cowell on the 2010 series of The X Factor. Five Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, over three billion YouTube views, 50 million records sold worldwide and an estimated $130million