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Billboard Music Awards Pit Taylor Swift Against Maroon 5 and Fun
Originally posted 04/22/2013 11:55AM
It's a three-way tie: Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 and fun. are finalists in 11 categories for this year's Billboard Music Awards.
Rihanna, Carly Rae Jepsen and One Direction are up for 10, nine and eight trophies, respectively, Billboard also announced on Monday.
Swift, Maroon 5, Rihanna, One Direction and Justin Bieber will compete for the top artist award. Adele's 10-million-selling 2011 album, "21," won top Billboard 200 album last year and is up for the award this year. It will vie with Swift's "Red," Mumford & Sons' "Babel," as well as One Direction's albums – "Up All Night" and "Take Me Home" – both released last year.
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One Direction Meets Their Wax Figures in London
Originally posted 04/18/2013 12:45PM
What's better than seeing One Direction? Seeing double – as in two sets of the heartthrob 5-some!
Madam Tussauds in London opened it's 1D exhibit Thursday to eagerly awaiting fans, but Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan all got to "meet" their life-size wax counterparts secretly prior. Can you tell the real boybander from the wax counterpart?
The One Direction wax figures will stay in London or twelve weeks before being displayed in Madame Tussauds in New York and Sydney. And while you won't get to caress the cheeks of the real guys, maybe no one will tell the difference in your photos!
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One Direction Parties Into the Wee Hours Before Releasing Charity Single
Originally posted 02/21/2013 03:15PM
There's never a dull moment for One Direction!
It was a big night for the boy band on Wednesday, when the heartthrobs attended the BRIT Awards.
After performing their new single "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)" to benefit Comic Relief – a new version of Blondie's hit song – Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Liam Payne made history when they were awarded with the BRIT Awards' first ever global success prize.
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One Direction Boys' Moms Are Thrilled, Though Not About Those Tattoos
Originally posted 01/31/2013 02:00PM
If you think it's been an emotionally crazy few years for the members of One Direction, imagine how their mothers feel.
"My mum just cries the whole time. My mum literally has not stopped crying for the past two and a half years," Liam Payne said Thursday on ITV's Daybreak show in Britain.
The boys may be world famous, but they insist their families are still their biggest fans.
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One Direction's Niall Horan Talks Kissing Katy Perry
Originally posted 11/11/2012 08:00AM
One Direction's Niall Horan kissed Katy Perry – and he liked it!
The 19-year-old recently confessed to locking lips with the "Teenage Dream" singer in an interview with British Cosmopolitan.
When asked about the sexiest woman he's ever kissed, Horan recalled the smooch with Perry.
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Harry Styles of One Direction Considers Himself 'Too Flirty'
Originally posted 10/10/2012 09:15AM
Harry Styles is getting used to his heartthrob status.
The One Direction singer, who calls himself "quite flirty," isn't shying away from female attention.
"[I'm] maybe too flirty," Styles says in the November issue of Seventeen. "I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I like to have fun!"
One thing he doesn't enjoy, though, is being labeled as the "girl-crazy" member of the five-person group.
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Olympics Closing Ceremonies Spotify Playlist: 20 Best Songs
Originally posted 08/13/2012 11:30AM
The closing ceremonies are over, the Olympic flame is extinguished and all's quiet over London. Sunday night, however, was a different story, with pop stars from the Spice Girls to George Michael to Oasis paying tribute to the games in a star-studded closing ceremony. It was a Who's Who (featuring The Who) of British pop stars!
Need a little U.K. this a.m.? Spice up your life this Monday morning with our Spotify playlist of the best songs of the Olympics closing ceremonies. And we're leaving out Russell Brand singing The Beatles. You're welcome.
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