One Direction’s music, including their five studio albums, re-entered the Billboard charts this week after fans paid tribute to the late Liam Payne by streaming and purchasing his former band’s catalogue.
All five One Direction albums reappeared this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, led by Four at No. 31 and Midnight Memories at No. 38.
Six songs from the band placed on the Billboard Global 200 chart this week, which ranks songs based on worldwide sales, streaming and radio performance, with Night Changes peaking at No. 18.
Night Changes, one of the band’s most successful songs, with sentimental lyrics about the transience of life, rose in popularity on Spotify and TikTok after Payne’s death, reaching #6 on Spotify’s daily chart and #1 6 on the list of trending songs on TikTok, as fans used the song in videos to pay tribute to Payne.
The band’s other songs on this week’s Global 200 include Story Of My Life at 23, What Makes You Beautiful at 55 and Perfect at 94.
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One Direction also ranked at No. 18 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart, which ranks artists based on sales, streaming and radio performance of all an artist’s songs and albums.
One Direction previously peaked at No. 2 on Spotify’s global artist chart following Payne’s death, peaking at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 3 in the United States.
Several artists have paid tribute to Payne on stage since his death, including singer Rita Ora, with whom Payne collaborated on her 2018 song, For You. Ora performed the song Wednesday night, just hours after his death, and was visibly emotional.
“I can’t even sing this right now,” she said, as a photo of her and Payne was shown on the screen behind her.
Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers performed a version of Night Changes on Thursday in Boston, saying she had been “thinking about how precious life is and how quickly things can change” and wanted to pay tribute to Payne’s fans and the music from One Direction.
Payne’s former One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Harry Styles shared a joint statement on One Direction’s Instagram account on Thursday night, and all four made individual statements between Thursday and Friday.
“We are completely devastated by the news of Liam’s passing. “The memories we shared with him will be treasured forever,” the statement said.
Horan, whose concert Payne attended in Buenos Aires two weeks ago, said his partner “was the brightest in every room and always made everyone feel happy and safe,” adding that he felt “very lucky to have seen him recently.”
Malik admitted on Instagram that he and Payne sometimes “clashed,” but said he “lost a brother” and is “beyond devastated.”
Tomlinson called Payne “the most vital part of One Direction” for “his perfect pitch, his stage presence and his gift for writing,” and Styles said he will remember his time with Payne as “among the most precious years of my life.” ”.
Payne died at age 31 on Wednesday after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. A preliminary autopsy revealed that he died from injuries that involved “internal and external hemorrhage.”
Police responded after a hotel manager called to report “a guest overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol” destroying his room.
Payne had struggled with addiction during and after his time in One Direction, which included a 100-day stay in rehab last year.
The singer said he suffered from alcoholism while One Direction was at its peak in the 2010s, adding that he was relieved when the band broke up in 2016 because “I needed to stop or it was going to kill me.”
One Direction became one of the biggest boy bands of all time after rising to fame in 2010 on the British version of The X Factor, where judges Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger formed the band after all five members auditioned individually. .
Before going on hiatus, One Direction had sold 50 million records worldwide and grossed more than $570 million from concert tours. After the band’s hiatus, all five members pursued solo music careers. Payne released a solo album, LP1, in 2019.
This article was originally published by Forbes US.
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