The album sold 4 million copies in five weeks, as U.K. music acts claimed the best-selling album in the world for the sixth time in seven years. By Abid Rahman The British pop band were on the scene ...

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, ...

That said, there are obvious benchmark musical comparisons to be made, notably with their boy band peers The Wanted, or yesterday's princes of teen lust, JLS. In these, One Direction come out on top.

The road from boy band fame to solo stardom is notoriously bumpy, but Niall Horan made the transition look easy with 2017 debut album “Flicker.” Eschewing the pop of One Direction for earthier, singer ...

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, ...