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One Direction: How Have Their Careers Changed?

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By TheBlast Staff on December 19, 2019 at 2:51 AM PST

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It seems like just yesterday when the baby-faced, innocent boys who would one day become one of the most successful musical groups of all time, auditioned in front of Simon Cowell on the X Factor.

Little did they know at the time, but when they were put together in a group to form One Direction, their entire lives and careers would be forever changed.

After their shocking split, each member of One Direction has seen various levels of success within their solo careers.

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While Zayn Malik was always the quieter more mysterious member of One Direction, he was seen as the one with the most vocal talent. On March 25, 2015 he announced his departure from the band that made him famous, saying, "I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old."

Of course, we now know this to be fairly untrue, being that he has made a huge effort to carve out a solo career.

In 2016, Zayn won the American Music Award for New Artist Of The Year. Though Zayn worked with major stars like Sia and Taylor Swift, by 2018 it appeared his career was stalling a bit.

His second album Icarus Falls debuted at #64 on the UK charts. That's a long way to fall from his days of selling out stadiums around the world with his One Direction band mates.

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