Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
IFPI Forces Closure of Site That Sold 'Fake' Plays on Spotify, YouTube
billboard.comLONDON — A legal injunction has been placed against one of Europe's leading "fake stream" sites, ordering it to close.The order was filed against Followerschmiede.de in the Berlin District Court by international trade body IFPI and German music association Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) as part of a broader industry-wide campaign to prevent "fake streams."Germany-based Followerschmiede.de is one of a number of global sites where customers can pay for "fake plays" on streaming services like Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud or TikTok to falsely boost an act's popularity and potentially inflate its chart position and royalty payments.Figures around the size and scale of the site's illegal activity are not known, but IFPI described.
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