One Direction and 5 Seconds Of Summer are both popular boy bands that are known
across the world. 5 Seconds Of Summer is a rock / pop band , which consists of 4 Australian
boys , Calum T. Hood , Luke R. Hemmings , Ashton F. Irwin , and Michael G. Clifford .
One Direction is a pop band , which consists of 4 British boys and 1 Irish boy , Niall J. Horan ,
Zayn J. Malik , Harry E. Styles , Louis W. Tomlinson , and Liam J. Payne.
One Direction was formed in 2010. While they were all competing as solo artists. At the British
X-Factor judges Nicole Sherzinger and Simon Cowell decided to put the five boys into a group. One
Direction then signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing
third in the seventh series of the show. Even though One Direction didn’t make it to the 1st Place in the
group category in X-Factor , Simon signed them to a £2 million record contract at Syco Records .
They recorded their first hit single ‘ What Makes You Beautiful ‘ which broke several records, and
topped the charts of most major markets online and in stores. Sooner their album ‘ Up All Night ‘ was
released in 2011 - 2012 including some of their hit singles like , One Thing , Gotta Be You , and What
Makes You Beautiful. Then , their album ‘ Take Me Home ‘ was released in 2012 - 2013 and included
songs like Live While We’re Young , Kiss You , and Little Things. And recently in 2013
their 3rd album ‘ Midnight Memories ‘ was released and included songs like Best Song Ever , Story
Of My Life , and Diana.
5 Seconds Of Summer ( 5SOS ) was formed in Sydney in 2011 . Their fan base increased
once again on Youtube , when Louis Tomlinson from One Direction posted the link to their
YouTube video of their song Gotta Get Out , stating that he'd been a fan of 5 Seconds of Summer
"for a while". The band was once again the subject of