One Path is among the most profitable boybands in historical past, with Harry Kinds, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson turning into international superstars.
The band was fashioned in 2010, with Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger grouping them collectively following their separate auditions on The X Issue. The group rapidly grew to become in style and so they managed to progress all the best way to the finals, earlier than being eradicated in third place.
After the hit ITV present, One Path launched a complete of 5 albums, bought 70 million data and gained over 200 separate awards. In 2015, the band misplaced member Zayn Malik when he determined to step again from the group.
Though the remaining 4 continued on, the group would finally go on an indefinite hiatus in 2016 with all members of the group embarking on solo careers.
© Ken McKay/Talkback Thames/ShutterstockOn 16 October 2024, the band sadly misplaced member Liam Payne, when the singer fell from a lodge balcony in Argentina. The remaining members of the group launched a joint assertion and their very own particular person messages following the shock loss of life.
Discover out why the band determined to interrupt aside right here…
Zayn’s departure
One Path went from a five-piece band to a four-piece one on 25 March 2015, throughout their On the Street Once more Tour. In an announcement, Zayn defined: “I might prefer to apologise to the followers if I’ve let anybody down, however I’ve to do what feels proper in my coronary heart.
“I’m leaving as a result of I wish to be a standard 22-year-old who is ready to loosen up and have some personal day out of the highlight. I do know I’ve 4 mates for all times in Louis, Liam, Harry and Niall. I do know they are going to proceed to be the perfect band on this planet.”
© Dave J HoganIn an interview with the BBC in 2023, Zayn admitted he had an ulterior motive to leaving the group, saying: “I simply seen it [coming] and I utterly selfishly wished to be the primary particular person to go and make my very own document. If I am being utterly trustworthy with you, I used to be like, ‘I’ll leap the gun right here’.
“I am a passive dude, however relating to my music and my enterprise, I am critical about it and I am aggressive, so I wished to be the primary to go and do my very own factor. That was the explanation.”
© WWDRegardless of rumours of a feud between bandmates, Zayn downplayed this, including: “We have been shut, ? We might carried out loopy issues with one another that no person else on this planet will ever perceive and I look again on it now in a a lot fonder mild than I’d have [when] I would just left.
“There have been nice experiences, I had nice instances with them, however we might simply run our course.”
Hiatus
One Path continued with out Zayn and launched their first album as a foursome, Made In The A.M. on 13 November. Nonetheless, a couple of months earlier than the discharge, the group confirmed that they have been planning on happening hiatus in order that members may pursue particular person initiatives.
© Debra L RothenbergThe plan was by no means for his or her break to be everlasting, with Louis assuring followers: “Your help is really indescribable! It is only a break. We’re not going wherever!!” Regardless of this, the band by no means ended up reforming.
In 2017, Harry defined to Rolling Stone: “I did not wish to exhaust our fan base. In case you’re shortsighted, you’ll be able to assume, ‘Let’s simply hold touring,’ however all of us thought an excessive amount of of the group than to let that occur. You realise you are exhausted and you do not wish to drain folks’s perception in you.”
Reunion calls
Following the band’s hiatus, there have been quite a few requires them to reform. When requested in regards to the chance for the group to reform for his or her tenth anniversary in 2020, Niall instructed Jamie Redknapp: “We have been chatting about it, little bits and items that we are able to do, however nothing by way of getting the band again collectively, so for now, no.”
Simon Cowell instructed NME in 2024 that he “doubted” the band would ever get again collectively.
© NBCOne hearsay led followers to imagine that the entire band may reform for the ultimate episode of James Corden’s The Late Late Present, with the presenter recognized to be an enormous fan, nonetheless, this by no means panned out.
Nonetheless, Liam was at all times eager on the thought of the band getting again collectively, telling MTV in 2020: “I feel we match one another for pleasure. The place we left off with the band, we had simply completed an album and we did not get to tour it so there’s at all times been that little factor that is been lacking from it.
© Karwai Tang“Everybody I’ve spoken to, we at all times get onto the subject of the reunion sooner or later, it isn’t like anybody is attempting to dodge it, it is only a matter of when.”
