#1D business

[persimmonlions]

Some points I took from that Music Week interview:

Expanded clothing line (28 Official Programme?) tentatively coming 2023

Pretty much confirmed tour band replacements during the North American leg were due to quarantining

Alex Hardee (one of Louis’ booking agents) wants Louis at festivals because of ~The One Direction Economy~

Matt Vines (and Louis?) would like to repeat what 1D & Modest did with 5SOS and break acts on their own label by having them support Louis on tour. (Aside: 5SOS also recently released their first album with BMG.)

[skepticalarrie]

Could you please explain what that actually means when Simon said he doesn't own One Direction name?

I’m not a specialist, and we haven’t discussed contracts and business within the music industry for a while, so I apologize if I’m missing some facts. But basically, control over the band's name can have a massive impact on decision-making and financial outcomes. If he owned the name One Direction, that would give him full control over the brand, merch, and sort all commercial uses. The fucker regrets not owning it because he 👏 wants 👏 to 👏 profit 👏 more 👏. It’s all about money. He could be licensing products (he even mentions animations in the video), he could also organize a potential reunion and do whatever he wanted with the band, who knows…

There are so many layers to this. He also mentioned that a band member dropping out of half the tour wouldn’t be a problem if he owned the band because band ownership includes controlling decisions like continuing a tour despite these kinds of changes. I haven’t watched the full interview, but it seems to me he implies that One Direction wouldn’t be on indefinite hiatus if it were up to him. He could even have potentially reformed the band with new members or taken other directions to keep it going without even needing the consent of OT5. I mean, that’s how messed up things could have been. He regrets that the artists are the ones still in control and profiting from it!!!! He wanted to own it so the actual band members would be just puppets, not really an important part of it. No human decency, just money and business. And people still don’t believe all the awful things that went down behind the scenes. We don’t know half of what these fucking greedy people put the boys through.

Side note: He also implies multiple times that Syco did fully own the band at some point. Which is confusing, because we obviously know how controlling the label was for them and how much they profited from One Direction, but I’m pretty sure the boys always owned at least part of the band, they created a company at the very beginning and they obviously still own it and earn from the band to this day. So I’d love to know what the deal actually was and what point this changed.

In reference to this

[devilat-thedoor]

✨in love with you and all these little things✨

[stelloulas]

fitfwt uncasville

[saraloveslove]

One year from The Final Show and fourteen years of One Direction ❤️

[louisisalarrie]

you ever open the Twitter app and immediately go “I’ve seen enough” and then close it? because yeah, that just happened to me

[fyodior]

im kinda missing my 5 seconds of summer/one direction blogging days that shit was another level of fun

[lets-laughagain]

jin at the olympics, harry and louis at the euros, now which one of my faves is gonna be at copa america?

[nick-cassidy]

📸: Oliver Rowland

[thetriangletattoo]

inktober day 3 - fire

larrie inktober

[persimmonlions]

x / x / x

[skepticalarrie]

Where do you think zayn ties in to the ownership of 1d name. Do you think he sold his stake before leaving?

After leaving, but yes. Apparently he did sell his share back to the company that holds One Direction's ownership, 1D Media. Now the company is represented by Lawrence Engel and Alan McEvoy on behalf of Harry, Louis, Liam, and Niall. However, we don’t know whether he still receives royalties and profits from his time in the band. I assume he does?! But it's very unclear what sort of arrangements were made when he left. From the public information we have available though, he resigned from all 1D related companies.

[rachelmoffat01]

long shot but does anyone know anyone who makes one direction merch that’s actually nice and up to date?? like i feel like all i can ever see if the old school stuff or like merch for them individually which is cool but right now i’m dying for a one direction hoodie that i’ll actually wear 🤣 so any like etsy shops or online businesses would be cool!!

[theirloveisgross]

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[1dhq]

i saw this great instagram post on @/amplifyhervoice about the importance of fangirls and wanted to share. i think overall, women and their impact are still massively underrepresented in fan spaces but artists and the industry are slowly catching on. click on the screenshots to enlarge!

[dorothygale]

happy one direction day and thus happy 3-year anniversary of the day i decided to listen to their whole discography and they became my #2 artist of 2021 despite only listening to them for half the year.