UP ALL NIGHT

 In September, 2011, One Direction released their first single, What Makes You Beautiful, which immediately became a commercial and international success. It reached the number one in the UK Singles chart and became the most pre-ordered single in the history of Sony Music Entertainment. In November, 2011, they singed a record deal with Colombia Records in North America. In that very same month they released their debut album, Up All Night, in the UK and Ireland. With a huge fanbase, it became one of the UK's fastest selling debut album in 2011, which led them to their first tour, the Up All Night Tour.

When One Direction's arrived in the US in February 2012, the group boarded on a radio promotion splurge, as well as their first North American concert tour as an opening act for Big Time Rush, opening 16 shows after they had completed the first limb of the Up All Night Tour. That very month, they announced that an Oceania leg had been added to the tour. They made their first US television appearance on The Today Show at the Rockefeller Center, an estimated 15,000 fans inclined on the plaza.

"What Makes You Beautiful" publicly released in the United States that same month, where it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28, fetching the uppermost debut for a British act since 1998. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it stretched as high as number four. Till June 2016, it vended 4.8 million copies in the US and more than 7 million copies worldwide. Up All Night released globally in March, and One Direction became the first UK band to have their debut album reach number one in the US, and also were inaugurated into Guinness World Record. After the album's universal release, it surpassed the charts in sixteen countries. Up All Night also became the first album by a boy band to trade 500,000 digital copies in the US and, by August 2012, had sold over 3 million copies worldwide. It was the third global best-selling album of the year, selling 4.5 million copies. Succeeding the success of the album, a North American leg of the tour was announced later in that same month.

But with success, comes a lot of trouble. In 2012, an US band filed a lawsuit against One Direction claiming that they have been using the same name since 2009. Syco Records later counter-sued, signifying the US group was aiming to make money from One Direction's success and that the boy band was the first to custom the name in US interstate business. The BBC testified in September 2012 that the UK band won the legal dispute over the right to keep using their band name. The US band reformed its name to Uncharted Shores. The change of name was proclaimed in a joint declaration that also noted both groups were satisfied with the outcome.


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