Liam Payne

Liam Payne (2014)

Liam James Payne (born August 29, 1993 in Wolverhampton , West Midlands ) is a British singer and songwriter . He became known as a member of the boy band One Direction .

Life

Liam Payne was born on August 29, 1993. He has two older sisters and grew up in his native Wolverhampton . Payne was born three weeks prematurely, which is why he had a variety of health problems, including one of his kidneys was dysfunctional. At the age of six Payne began to show signs of musical talent, but initially pursued the dream of becoming an athlete. At the age of fourteen Payne decided to concentrate fully on his singing.

Payne was dating the singer Cheryl Cole . Their son was born on March 22, 2017. In July 2018, the two announced their separation.

Musical career

Liam Payne first appeared as a nominee on the UK edition of the casting show The X Factor in 2008 but was advised to try again in two years because of his young age. In 2010 Payne took part again in The X Factor. He started as a single candidate, but on the advice of guest juror Nicole Scherzinger , the band One Direction was formed together with the four other candidates Niall Horan , Harry Styles , Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson . They came third and signed a record deal with Sony Music afterwards .

Liam Payne signed a solo contract with Capitol Records in July 2016 . On May 19, 2017, his first solo single, Strip That Down , was released, a collaboration with rapper Quavo . His second single, Get Low , a collaboration with German-Russian DJ Zedd , followed in July . Soon after, in October, his third single, Bedroom Floor, was released with the help of Charlie Puth . On January 5, 2018 , the song For You was released in collaboration with the singer Rita Ora . On April 20, 2018, his single Familiar was released , together with J Balvin .

He also released his own EP on August 24, 2018, called First Time . It contains four songs.

On October 5th the single Polaroid , written by the English DJ Jonas Blue and starring Liam Payne and singer Lennon Stella, was released.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2019	LP1	DE91 (1 week) DE	-	CH100 (1 week) CH	UK17 (6 weeks) UK	US111 (1 week) US	First published: December 6, 2019

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2018	First time	First published: August 24, 2018

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	Strip That Down LP1	DE10 platinum (27 weeks)DE	AT15 (24 weeks) AT	CH30 (22 weeks) CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (25 weeks)UK	US10 × 3 Triple platinum (28 weeks)US	First published: May 19, 2017 Sales: + 5,580,000; feat. Quavo
	Get Low LP1	DE75 (1 week) DE	AT54 (1 week) AT	CH54 (2 weeks) CH	UK26th silver (10 weeks)UK	US91 gold (1 week)US	First published: July 6, 2017 Sales: + 810,000; with Zedd
	Bedroom Floor LP1	DE100 (1 week) DE	AT69 (1 week) AT	CH95 (1 week) CH	UK21st silver (13 weeks)UK	US98 (1 week) US	First published: October 20, 2017 Sales: + 275,000
2018	For You LP1	DE1 gold (20 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH3 (23 weeks) CH	UK8th platinum (17 weeks)UK	US76 (3 weeks) US	First published: Jan 5, 2018 Sales: + 1,245,000; with Rita Ora
	Familiar LP1	DE50 (17 weeks) DE	AT65 (1 week) AT	CH52 (11 weeks) CH	UK14th gold (19 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 20, 2018 Sales: + 530,000; with J Balvin
	First time, first time	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 24, 2018 with French Montana
	Polaroid LP1	-	-	CH96 (2 weeks) CH	UK12 gold (17 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 5, 2018 Sales: + 465,000; with Jonas Blue & Lennon Stella
2019	Stack It Up LP1	-	-	-	UK84 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 18, 2019 feat. A boogie wit da hoodie
	All I Want (For Christmas) LP1	-	-	-	UK73 (1 week) UK	-	First published: October 25, 2019
	Live Forever LP1	-	-	-	-	-	First published: December 6, 2019 feat. Cheat codes
2020	Midnight single track	-	-	CH97 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: April 8, 2020 with Alesso
	Number one singles	DE1DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US-US
	Top 10 singles	DE2DE	AT1AT	CH1CH	UK2UK	US1US
	Singles in the charts	DE5DE	AT5AT	CH7thCH	UK8thUK	US4thUS

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2020: for the author participation Midnight Memories (One Direction) Golden record  Australia 2015: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction) 2018: for the Single Bedroom Floor  Belgium 2017: for the single Strip That Down 2018: for the single For You  Brazil 2018: for the single Familiar  Denmark 2015: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2018: for the single For You 2018: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction) 2019: for the author participation History (One Direction)  Germany 2014: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction)  France 2017: for the single Strip That Down 2018: for the single For You  Italy 2014: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2015: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction) 2016: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2019: for the single Polaroid  Canada 2017: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2018: for the single For You 2018: for the Single Bedroom Floor 2019: for the single Polaroid  Mexico 2017: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2018: for the single Get Low 2018: for the single Familiar  New Zealand 2014: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2015: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction)  Portugal 2018: for the single For You  Sweden 2015: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2018: for the single For You  Switzerland 2014: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction)  United States 2014: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction)

Platinum record  Australia 2014: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2016: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2018: for the single For You  Brazil 2018: for the single For You  Denmark 2014: for the Streaming Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2018: for the single Strip That Down  Italy 2014: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2017: for the single Strip That Down 2019: for the single For You  Canada 2015: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2017: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction) 2018: for the single Familiar 2019: for the single Get Low  New Zealand 2013: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2016: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2017: for the single Strip That Down  Sweden 2017: for the single Strip That Down  United States 2015: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction)  United Kingdom 2015: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2016: for the author participation Steal My Girl (One Direction) 2016: for the author participation History (One Direction) 2020: for the author participation Night Changes (One Direction) 3 × gold record  Mexico 2016: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2 × platinum record  Australia 2014: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction)  Brazil 2018: for the single Strip That Down  Poland 2019: for the single For You 3 × platinum record  United States 2015: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 4 × platinum record  Canada 2017: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction) 2018: for the single Strip That Down 5 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single Strip That Down  Norway 2014: for the author participation Story Of My Life (One Direction)

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	2 × gold2	10 × platinum10	770,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	2 × gold2	-	30,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	140,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	255,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	750,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	150,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	220,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	4 × gold4th	12 × platinum12	1,120,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	180,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	75,000	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	5 × platinum5	50,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	gold1	-	5,000	Individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	80,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	7 × platinum7th	8,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	2 × gold2	7 × platinum7th	5,600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	36 × gold36	57 × platinum57

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mums of One Direction stars reveal how the boys have grown into music sensations on dailyrecord.co.uk from April 16, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ One Direction's Liam Payne: 'I effectively died as a baby' on digitalspy.co.uk from September 18, 2011 (English)
3. ↑ Liam Payne now sprinting to X Factor success on expressandstar.com from September 11, 2010 (English)
4. ↑ The baby is here! on gala.de from March 26, 2017
5. ↑ Liam Payne shows he has the X Factor on expressandstar.com from September 6, 2010 (English)
6. ↑ Nicole Scherzinger: 'I did Simon Cowell a favor with One Direction on digitalspy.co.uk from July 26, 2011 (English)
7. ↑ Liam Payne Announces Solo Deal With Capitol Records UK on billboard.com from July 21, 2016 (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
9. ↑ Gold for Get Low in Mexico
10. ↑ Gold for For You in Portugal