‘One Thing’ reached number 3 in Australia, number 17 in Canada, number 4 in Hungary, number 6 in Ireland, number 60 in Italy and number 8 in Scotland. In the UK, it reached number 9 on the Official Charts Company, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified it Silver for sales over 200,000 copies. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it Platinum for sales over 1.4 million copies. Songwriter/s: Rami Yacoub – Carl Falk – Savan KotechaĬhart Rankings: In the US, the song peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 15 on the Mainstream Top 40. It’s my favorite out of the three songs that I have on the Up All Night album.” ![]() It felt like the perfect ‘sister song’ to ‘What Makes You Beautiful.’ It was a long process of getting there, but once we got there and the song was finished, we thought it could be even better than ‘What Makes You Beautiful.’ In my mind, ‘One Thing’ is a better song. So it just made sense to have that with a huge chorus and all of that. It almost has a lullaby feeling to it, the way it’s structured. When we did that, everything fell into place. So we just merged the two songs and turned them into one song. It was actually Savan Kotecha who came up with the idea. In an interview with the, co-writer Carl Falk told the story of the song, he said: “That was originally written as two different songs One had a really, really good verse and the other had a really, really good chorus. It might not be their looks or their personality in particular, but just something about them that is completely great and you can’t put your finger on it. But even from the missteps to the highlights to the nonsensical, every 1D moment is essential to their myth-making.This song is about when sometimes you just like someone really intensely for some unknown reason. To celebrate their tenth anniversary, I’ve ranked every single song in One Direction’s catalog, which is one of the most consistent discographies in recent pop memory, and included an MVP for each track to recognize the standout member or moment on that particular cut. Their sound wasn’t about legitimizing themselves in order to be really taken seriously as artists, because the millions of young women who made them megastars were already doing that. That’s because the regard One Direction held for their audience was higher than that. There was never a sense of elitism from One Direction - even when their music moved toward electric guitars, it didn’t feel like it was to win over the people who wouldn’t think to look to a boy band for some of the last decade’s best rock music. Often described as an “edgier” boy band, they evolved from standard pop fare to interpolating the signifiers of classic rock, but excelled at both. Not that One Direction even needed that mythos to enhance their music - the songs were already excellent. Every post, picture, interview and gesture was dissected and analyzed along with the music, building a deep lore that’s just as essential as the songs. As the first big boy band of the social media age, they were accessible in a way those kinds of stars had never been before. ![]() ![]() The rest is history - and by history I mean their every movement from that moment on was chronicled by a fandom of dedicated Directioners. But instead of going home and trying again next year, they were morphed into a different mold - why not put these cute, flippy-haired boys together? After their shaky auditions of varying degrees of nervousness, it seemed evident that Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan wouldn’t end up being the Justin Bieber clones Simon Cowell was looking for when he put every cute, flippy-haired boy through to the next round. Ten years ago, five young lads were cut from a singing competition.
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