Hvornår var one direction med i audition til x-factor?
2010
I 2010 stillede Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles og Louis Tomlinson op til audition som solokandidater til den syvende serie af den britiske tv-sangkonkurrence The X Factor. Det lykkedes dem ikke at komme videre til kategorien "Drenge" ved "dommernes hus", men de blev sat sammen til et femstemmigt boyband i Wembley Arena i London, England, i juli 2010 under konkurrencens "bootcamp"-fase, og kvalificerede sig dermed til kategorien "Grupper". Nicole Scherzinger, en gæstedommer, og Simon Cowell har begge hævdet at have fået ideen til at danne bandet. I 2013 sagde Cowell, at det "tog ham 10 minutter at sætte dem sammen som en gruppe". Efterfølgende fandt gruppen sammen i to uger for at lære hinanden at kende og øve. Styles fandt på navnet One Direction. Til deres kvalifikationssang ved "dommernes hus" og deres første sang som gruppe sang One Direction en akustisk version af "Torn". Cowell kommenterede senere, at deres optræden overbeviste ham om, at de "var selvsikre, sjove, som en flok venner og også lidt frygtløse". I løbet af de første fire uger af liveshows var de hans sidste nummer i konkurrencen. Gruppen vandt hurtigt popularitet i Storbritannien.
2010
In 2010, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson auditioned as solo candidates for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor. They failed to progress to the "Boys" category at "judges' houses" but were put together to form a five-piece boy band at Wembley Arena, in London, England, in July 2010, during the "bootcamp" stage of the competition, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. Nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge, and Simon Cowell have both claimed to have come up with the idea of forming the band. In 2013, Cowell said that it "took him 10 minutes to put them together as a group". Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice. Styles came up with the name One Direction. For their qualifying song at "judges' houses", and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of "Torn". Cowell later commented that their performance convinced him that they "were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well." Within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were his last act in the competition. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK.
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