One Direction is a band.
`` Best Song Ever '' is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction . Four is the fourth studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction , released on 17 November 2014 by Columbia Records and Syco Music . Louis Tomlinson . He is known as a member of the pop boy band One Direction . One Direction ( commonly abbreviated as 1D ) are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London , composed of Niall Horan , Liam Payne , Harry Styles , Louis Tomlinson , and previously , Zayn Malik until his departure from the band on 25 March 2015 . Their awards include six Brit Awards , four MTV Video Music Awards , eleven MTV Europe Music Awards , seven American Music Awards ( including Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015 ) , and 27 Teen Choice Awards , among many others .