One Direction are an English-Irish boy band consisting of members Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

In addition, Zayn Malik was a member until his departure from the band, announced on 25 March 2015.

One Direction have released five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015).

Unlike the Grammys, which are awarded on the basis of votes by members of the Recording Academy, the AMAs are determined by a poll of the public and music buyers.

The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually in December until it went dormant in 2007, but it returned in May 2011.

These awards are based primarily on the Billboard Boxscore chart, recognizing true box office success and industry achievement.

The Do Something Awards culminated in 1996 to recognize young people under the age of 25 who have done outstanding work in their communities and the world.

IFPI published its first Global Recording Artist of the Year on 30 January 2014 to accurately capture the popularity of artists across streaming channels, alongside digital and physical album and singles sales the previous year.

The independently verified chart included sales of albums - across digital, CD and vinyl formats; singles, both downloaded and physical; on-demand streams and music videos.

It used track and album equivalents to combine measurements of downloads, physical sales and streams.

One Direction have collected their award after being named the IFPI Global Recording Artist of 2013.

The award, which honours the most popular act globally across downloading, streaming and physical format sales, was presented by IFPI's chief executive Frances Moore.

New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies.

From 2012 the American national categories were declared extinct and Los Premios 40 Principales America were created in their place as a separate show from the one in Spain.

The American MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) is an award show by the cable network MTV to honor the top music videos of the year.

It was first held at the end of the summer of 1984, and originally as an alternative to the Grammy Award in the video category.

The Neox Fan Awards were created by Atresmedia for teenage audiences to honor the best of the year in television, music, sports and films.

The NRJ Music Awards, created in 2000 by the radio station NRJ in partnership with the television network TF1, takes place every year in mid-January at Cannes (PACA, France) as the opening of MIDEM (Marché international de l'édition musicale).

The prize was conceived by Popjustice founder Peter Robinson in 2003 as a reaction to what he perceived as the pompous and elitist nature of the existing Mercury Prize, which recognises the best album of the previous year, and in particular its exclusion of pop music acts in favour of those from more esoteric genres.

(Premio Nacional a la Música Grabada) are presented annually by the Academia Nacional de la Música en México for outstanding achievements in the Mexican record industry.

Rockbjörnen is a music prize in Sweden, divided into several categories, which is awarded annually by the newspaper Aftonbladet.

The Teen Choice Awards were established in 1999 to honor the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports and television, being voted by young people aged between 13 and 19.

The United By Pop Awards is an annual fan-voted digital event which takes place on UnitedbyPop.com The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

The annual Youth Rock Awards founded by JG Entertainment, that honors artists that are twenty-five years old or under and excel in dance, music or acting.