Just Hit Songs on Instagram: "One Direction was assembled in 2010 during the seventh series of The X Factor UK, not as a pre-planned band but as a second chance. Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik all auditioned as solo artists and were eliminated at the bootcamp stage before judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, and Louis Walsh suggested putting them together as a group. Despite having little time to rehearse and no prior history as a band, their chemistry