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Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding. I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.

Years ago, Nate converted me into a one-direction fan. Yes.

And now, as of late January 2020, it has been four years since they have gone on infinite hiatus.

Also, every one-direction member has finally released a solo album.

And today, we're joined by Voxwriter Alexily, who undertook the unenviable task of assessing each former member's relative success. Welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

You've written the article titled The Two Winners and Three Losers from One Directions, Solo Albums, and we want to break those down with you today.

For those of us who are not as familiar with One Direction, Philisyn, who are the members of the group? What's their story?

Sure. One Direction is composed of five members, Zane, Harry, Nile, Liam, and Louis.

And they were formed in 2010 after they were all auditioning as individuals on a British singing competition called the X Factor.

And Simon Cowell was like, you know what? I think that you would all be stronger as a group.

And since then, they have been a unit as One Direction.

One Direction is no longer together in 2015. Zane dropped out unexpectedly of the group and went on to do his own thing.

And a year later, the other members announced an indefinite hiatus to being part of the band.

And currently everyone is working on Solo Music or other projects.

And that's the reason we are here today. At this point, every One Direction member has released a solo album, which means we can take a sort of macroscopic view of how each of these artists has fared since that fateful breakup.

So, Lux, you've written the two winners and three losers from One Directions solo albums.

And it feels like it's time to sign at the times that we must review each young man's releases posts One Direction.

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