One Direction performs music as a group.
An MTV Video Music Award ( commonly abbreviated as a VMA ) is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium . 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 . The band 's Where We Are Tour in support of Midnight Memories and Four , was the highest-grossing concert tour in 2014 , and the highest-grossing tour ever by a vocal group , generating $ 282 million . The Where We Are Tour was the third headlining concert tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction .