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
Niall Horan sets the stage for second Number 1 album with The Show
officialcharts.comNiall Horan has set the stage to debut at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this Friday with The Show. The third solo album from the One Direction alumnus – which features the UK Top 20 single Heaven – is on track to become Niall’s second chart-topping LP, following 2020’s Heartbreak Weather.
His debut record, Flicker, reached Number 3 in 2017. As a member of One Direction – alongside Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik – Niall achieved four UK Number 1 singles and a further four Number 1 albums.
Currently tracking for second place, McFly look to net their seventh Top 10 album this week with Power To Play (2), while Mancunian rockers James are on track to claim their eighth Top 5 album with Be Open To The Wonderful (3).
Experimental French pop auteur Christine & The Queens could return to the Top 10 for the first time in half a decade with Paranoia, Angels, True Love (4) - the three-part album, and follow up to 2022’s Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue), includes collaborations with Madonna, 070 Shake and Mike Dean.
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