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Genres: Pop, Music
Expected Release: Nov 17, 2014
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Four is the upcoming fourth studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It will be released through Columbia Records and Syco Music on 17 November 2014.
On 27 April 2014, it was confirmed that One Direction were working on their fourth studio album. Good Charlotte was reported to have collaborated with Payne and Tomlinson for writing songs. McFly members Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter also teamed up with Niall Horan to write some tunes for the album, with one of their songs being so good, McFly claimed it should be released as a single. Rock band Kodaline wrote an ‘unrequited love song’ with Harry Styles, also The 1975 were chosen by One Direction themselves, to work on the album. Other people involved in the album are singers John Legend, Emeli Sandé and producer Naughty Boy. Payne claimed that the album would be "edgier" and the group have written most of the songs for it.
The name and cover of the album was announced on 8 September on One Direction's official website, along with a free download of a song called "Fireproof", which was available for 24 hours. Horan stated that the reason for the free download was "because you have supported us so much, we wanted to give a little something back". Fireproof was written by band members Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson along with John Ryan, Jamie Scott and Julian Bunetta, who also wrote their single "Story of My Life". In the 24-hour span, 1.1 million downloads were generated.
Listen to One Direction - Fireproof
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