Kotecha said that he was involved in the "early stages" of producing the record. In May 2011, Kotecha spoke to Digital Spy, and he elaborated that One Direction were "experimenting" with sounds on their debut album. The album also features songs written by Ed Sheeran, Kelly Clarkson, and Tom Fletcher. Recording took place in Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as One Direction worked with producers Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Steve Mac, RedOne, Toby Gad and Rami Yacoub, among others. After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album.
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In February 2011, One Direction and nine other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour. Recording for their debut album began in January 2011, as they flew to Los Angeles to work with Moroccan-Swedish producer RedOne. Footage from this concert was recorded and released on a live album, entitled Up All Night: The Live Tour.Īfter being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010, One Direction were signed by Simon Cowell to a £2 million Syco Records record contract. Furthermore, One Direction embarked on their first headlining concert tour, the Up All Night Tour.
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To promote the album, the band performed on many TV shows and awards ceremonies, including the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Four singles were released from the album, including the UK Singles Chart top ten hits " What Makes You Beautiful", " Gotta Be You", and " One Thing". In addition, Up All Night became the best-selling album by a group and the third best-selling debut album of 2012. One Direction finished 2012 with two of that year's top five best-selling albums in the United States Up All Night at number three and their second studio album, Take Me Home, at number five, making the boy band the first act to place two albums in the year-end top five in the Nielsen SoundScan era. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Up All Night was the third global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of 4.5 million copies worldwide. Up All Night was an international success, the album topped the charts in sixteen countries.
Up All Night debuted to number one on the United States Billboard 200, selling 176,000 copies in its first week. The album bowed at number two on the UK Albums Chart and ultimately became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of 2011.
The album received generally favourable reviews from contemporary music critics, many of whom appreciated the album's combination of melodic song craft and catchy, pop-oriented material that, while slickly produced, avoided the commercial cynicism and adult contemporary posturing of some of their '80s and '90s forebears.
The album's lyrical content regards being young, relationships, heartbreak and empowerment. Four months after finishing third in the seventh series of British reality singing contest The X Factor in December 2010, One Direction began recording the album in Sweden, the UK, and the United States, working with a variety of writers and producers. Up All Night is the debut studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction, released by Syco Records in November 2011 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, followed by a worldwide release during 2012.
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