Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
One Direction earn biggest streaming day of all time following Liam Payne’s death
nme.comOne Direction have achieved their biggest streaming day to date following the death of Liam Payne on Wednesday (October 16).Payne was 31 when he died after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Per The Guardian, the Argentinian prosecutor’s office revealed that Payne’s cause of death was due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding.One Direction’s surviving members Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles shared a joint statement on Payne’s death earlier this week, where they expressed their devastation, and said they would need time “to grieve and process the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly.”Since Payne’s tragic death, his former band’s music has been climbing streaming charts as fans reminisce on the songs that launched his career.
On October 17, their music received 57.5 million streams worldwide – marking the biggest figures they’ve achieved on streaming platforms to date, per Complex.The boyband is now the Number 1 artist on UK Spotify and the Number 2 artist globally, coming in just behind Taylor Swift, per Forbes.Liverpool Liam Payne vigil: mourners quietly sing ‘Story of my Life’ by One Direction pic.twitter.com/gzXC6az0m9— Con Corner (@ConCorner23) October 19, 2024‘Night Changes’, the band’s 2014 hit from their album ‘Four’ has been among the most-played, rising to No.
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