
All five members are credited with writing “Summer Love” – a surprisingly rare instance across their discography – and it feels fitting that one of their most truly collaborative efforts should turn out to be their best. The band’s most favoured themes – nostalgia, bittersweet memories, young love, friendship – are all present and correct. In order for your ranking to count, you need to be logged in and publish the list to the site (not simply downloading the tier list image). It doesn’t really fit at the end of the album on its own, it’s an impressive and rather moving pop ballad with some of the band’s best vocal work, including those superb harmonies on the chorus. The One Direction Songs (all) Tier List below is created by community voting and is the cumulative average rankings from 383 submitted tier lists. Perhaps not the most obvious choice for number one, this enormously underrated track from Take Me Home has a title that belies its disarmingly mature approach, from the lyrics to the romantic production filled with sweeping violins and tender guitars. Meanwhile that driving, synth-pop backing track is a dead ringer for “Style” – Swift’s song widely believed to have been written about Styles himself (if the title wasn’t enough of a clue). He references knights in shining armour and a person “looking for someone to write your breakup songs about”. Harry Styles gets top marks for sheer audacity with this blatant riff on a classic song by his ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Malik’s vocal performance here is particularly impressive, but each member gives the track their all. 83) Something Great, Midnight Memories You could describe many One Direction songs as something great. 84) Save You Tonight, Up All Night An under-18s-only-night club banger. Yet after five virtually non-stop years, it was clear that even these energetic young lads were beginning to run out of steam.Ī defiant song that has 1D paying proper tribute to all the great boybands who came before them. 85) Once in a Lifetime, FOUR The fact that this is the weakest song on FOUR is a testament to how good FOUR is. They won more than 200 awards, including seven Brits, four MTV Music Awards, seven AMAs and six Billboard Music Awards. They have sold 200 million records worldwide, and as recently as 2019, achieved 3.6 billion streams across Spotify, YouTube and other platforms. Over the course of five studio albums, “the boys” made music history on multiple occasions, smashing industry records previously set by The Beatles and achieving that rarest of feats: breaking America. While their potential for success was noted by many at the time, no one could have predicted the phenomenon they would become. After initially auditioning as solo artists, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne became One Direction. Ten years ago, five aspiring singers were grouped together by Simon Cowell to compete as a boyband on the then-popular reality show, The X-Factor.
