UK-Irish Boy Band "One Direction" Talk About The Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards And Their Success In North America

From Digital Spy UK:

One Direction's Harry Styles: 'US success is amazing' - video

The boyband talk to Digital Spy ahead of their KCA performance and award win.

One Direction have admitted that they are shocked and amazed by their quick success in the US music charts.

The X Factor boyband broke chart records by scoring a number one with their debut disc Up All Night.

Watch One Direction talking about the Kids Choice Awards and their US success below:



The group performed at last weekend's Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and are rumoured to have been invited to the White House after meeting Michelle Obama at the ceremony. The five-piece also picked up a gong at the awards show for 'Favourite UK Band'.

"Coming over here and having the reception to our music so far, it's been amazing," Styles told Digital Spy.

"For people to accept us and welcome us and to give us an award has been amazing."

First photo credit: © John Shearer; Second photo credit: © Christopher Polk
One Direction will star in an episode of Nickelodeon's iCarly on April 7.

Their hit 'What Makes You Beautiful' is also due to be covered by the cast of Glee in a future episode.

> Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2012 winners - In Full

One Direction's Performance At The Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards Helps The UK Boy Band Stay High Up In The USA's Billboard 200 Music Charts

From this Billboard 200 news article on the official Billboard website, Billboard.com:

Last week's No. 1 album, "The Hunger Games" soundtrack, slips to No. 5 with 64,000 (down 64%) while One Direction's "Up All Night" falls 4-6 with 46,000 (down 16%). The latter's erosion was eased by the act's performance on the Nickelodeon "Kids' Choice Awards" on March 31.

You can read the full article here on the official Billboard 200 website.

Also, from MusicWeek.com:

US charts: One Direction join The Wanted in Hot 100 top five

The Wanted and One Direction are rubbing shoulders on Billboard’s Hot 100 after simultaneously appearing in the chart’s top five for the first time.

In the battle of the British boy bands The Wanted are edging it currently, reversing a chart decline a week ago by moving back up 4-3 with Glad You Came whose weekly digital sales rise 24% to 209,000 downloads and US radio audience up 11% to 106 million.

However, hot on their heels are One Direction who continue to make rapid progress with What Makes You Beautiful, which lifts 9-4 and is the chart’s greatest gainer in terms of both digital and streaming. Its download tally is up 48% on the week to 294,000, taking cumulative US sales beyond 1 million to 1.1million, while on Billboard’s On Demand chart covering streaming activity the track climbs 11-7 with a 28% gain.

Glad You Came remains some distance ahead of What Makes You Beautiful on American radio, climbing 4-3 on Billboard’s Radio Songs airplay chart as the One Direction hit lifts 42-26. But the Syco act are making up ground with their radio audience growing 31% in a week to 42 million, while their US profile got a further big boost last week when they performed on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. They also have a second Hot 100 hit with One Thing re-entering this week at 75.

Sitting ahead of the two UK acts on the Hot 100 are Fun featuring Janelle Monae's We Are Young, which spends a sixth week at the top, and Gotye featuring Kinmbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know, which rises 3-2. Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend might have seen to be in contention for the top slot having debuted at two last week with the second-highest first-week sales for a download in history, but it now falls to five with its digital sales dropping 43% to what remains a very impressive 295,000 units.

Other Brits making progress on the countdown are Calvin Harris whose Feel So Close rises 14-13 and Ellie Goulding up 62-60 with Lights, while Adele’s Rumour Has It climbs 35-23. However, both Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You disappear from the Hot 100 last week, the former after 65 weeks, the joint third longest in history behind Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours (76 weeks) and LeAnn Rimes’ How Do I Live (69 weeks).

As she holds at six on the Hot 100 with Starships, Nicki Minaj scores her second Billboard 200 number one with Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded debuting at the top with 253,000 sales. That compares to a first week of 375,000 for her first album Pink Friday, which entered at two in December 2010 and eventually climbed to one the following February.

As on the Hot 100, there are two UK acts in the Billboard 200’s top five with One Direction cropping up here as well. Having slipped 1-4-6, their debut Up All Night is now climbing again, regaining a place to five with sales rising 98% to 92,000. This increase, which takes the album’s cumulative US total to around 370,000, follows not only their Saturday Night Live appearance but also a performance on Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards.

You can read the full article here on the official Music Week website.Also, from From Billboard.com:

It's back-to-back U.K. male vocal groups in the Hot 100's top five, as One Direction zooms 9-4 with "What Makes You Beautiful." The song claims dual Digital Gainer and Streaming Gainer awards, rising 5-4 on Digital Songs (294,000, up 48%) and 11-7 on On-Demand Songs (611,000, up 28%). On Radio Songs, the cut charges 42-26 (42 million, up 31%). The group performed Saturday (April 7) on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (and even made an acting cameo in a skit). One Direction also sang and acted on the episode of Nickelodeon's "iCarly" that aired the same day.

You can read the North American music charts news article in full here on the official Billboard website

Nickelodeon UK Presenter Anna Williamson Reports Back From The Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards

From Digital Spy UK:

Anna Williamson's Kids' Choice Awards blog

Digital Spy attends the orange carpet event in LA.

The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2012 kicked off in its traditional high octane fashion, this year with thousands of screaming One Direction fans lining the streets of Downtown LA.

The orange carpet was flooded with talent, leading the way and looking uber skinny was E! Entertainment host Kelly Osbourne.

First photograph © John Shearer; Second photograph © Alberto E. Rodriguez

The Hunger Games cast were out in their droves, hot off the back of their phenomenal recent movie success.

Nick Cannon, parading his new four-piece boyband, admitted his twins Moroccan and Monroe were too young for him to bring this year but he hopes to bring them when they're a little older to see their TV host dad take a legendary 'sliming'.

Watch Nick Cannon talking to Digital Spy at the Kids' Choice Awards:




Cannon also let slip that with his America's Got Talent boss Simon Cowell safely out of the way fronting the UK version, he was 'pleased to see the back of him'. A hasty backtrack from 'Mr Mariah' before Mr C gives him his P45 I think!

One Direction mania was certainly the buzz word of the day. We've all heard how the US have embraced our cheeky lads but it really does have to be seen to be believed. Thousands of crying, screaming girls were proof that One Direction really are the most successful export for quite some time. Looking polished and confident, yet not cocky or 'affected', Harry and Co are clearly enjoying their newfound level of fame and thankfully they seem to remain their down to earth selves.

No 'robot-esque' media training (yet!) or plastic, trowelled on make-up - in fact it appeared Harry had missed a few bits during his morning shave - the lads are in their element and so they should be. Harry was sweet enough to give Digital Spy a shout out and let all us UK fans know that they miss us. Awwww.

Watch Miranda Cosgrove talk about working with One Direction at the KCAs:



Kicking off proceedings in style, Will Smith descended into the Galen Centre in attire very reminiscent of his Fresh Prince days. Showing a united front and shunning recent rumours of marriage problems, Will, wife Jada Pinkett-Smith and protégés Jaden and Willow all happily bantered together for the cameras, with Will even having his kids 'abducted' in a comedy sketch.

Victoria Beckham had obviously decided to give her boys a day out and looked on reservedly with her youngest lad Cruz perched on her knee throughout. Older brothers Romeo and Brooklyn appeared happy to watch the many slimings sat next to LA Reid.

The much hyped and anticipated performance from One Direction didn't disappoint, with the lads working the stage like pros. Niall drew the most screams from the crowd appearing to have knocked Harry and Zayn off the top of the popularity tree. Having said that, all five lads reduced the majority of the crowd to quivering wrecks. Even Katy Perry was seen getting down in the aisle to 'What Makes You Beautiful'.

And performance of the night came from Katy Perry. Dressed in a gladiator costume and flying through the auditorium to 'do battle' with her many dancers, a blue haired Katy flung herself around the stage to ear piercing screams before declaring 'she's never grown up'.

Standing ovation was awarded to First Lady Michelle Obama who sashayed on stage in suitably casual attire to present The Big Help award to a shocked yet grateful Taylor Swift.


Both Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards photographs © Kevork DjansezianThe slimings came thick and fast with Halle Berry, Heidi Klum and Taylor Lautner all getting a taste of the famous green goo, with the climax resulting in host Will Smith and Justin Bieber getting doused from head to toe in a most impressive display, as part of the show's finale.

Watch the Kids' Choice Awards 2012 on Nickelodeon UK on Friday, April 6 at 6.30pm

The Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards Delivers Great Ratings For Nickelodeon's International Channels

According to this Nickelodeon Press Release from PR Newswire in which Nickelodeon announces that "Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards" had topped that weeks television ratings for basic cable and reached more than 11 million viewers in the USA, the Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards has also delivered great television ratings for Nickelodeon's international channels, networks and markets (Nickelodeon International), including for Nickelodeon UK, Nickelodeon Netherlands (Nickelodeon Nederland) and Nickelodeon Australia:

Internationally, the 2012 KCAs delivered strong preliminary results across the board. This year's show was the highest-rated KCA ever among kids in all international markets analyzed to date, with several markets up double digits over last year: UK was up +18%, Germany up +40%, and Australia up +28. The KCAs also was the number-one show in its time slot among kids' channels in the Netherlands, UK and Australia. This year, Nickelodeon extended voting for the KCA to more countries and platforms than ever before, drawing more than 39 million votes from fans outside the US –a triple-digit increase from last year's tally of 7 million.

You can read Nickelodeon's full Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards ratings press release here on NickALive!.

Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards Tops The Week In Basic Cable, Reaches More Than 11 Million Viewers On Nickelodeon USA

Below is a Nickelodeon Press Release from PR Newswire:

Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards Tops The Week in Basic Cable, Reaches More Than 11 Million Viewers

Star-studded Live Telecast Ranks As Week's Top Program With Kids, Tweens on All TV; Sets New Voting Record With More Than 220 Million Votes Cast

Post-KCA Airing of How to Rock Scores Series' Best Ratings Ever

NEW YORK, April 3, 2012 /Nickelodeon Press Release via PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards (Saturday, March 31, 8-9:30 p.m. ET/PT) was a slime-filled extravaganza watched by more than 11 million total viewers over this past weekend. Hosted by Will Smith, the Saturday-night live premiere (March 31, 8p.m. all times ET/PT) ranks as basic cable's number-one telecast for the week (3/26-4/1), averaging 6.2 million total viewers. It also took the top spot for the week with kids and tweens on all TV, averaging a 7.9/2.8 million K2-11, 11.0/2.3 million K6-11 and 11.3/2.3 million T9-14.

Additionally, the show's 10 p.m. airing on Saturday averaged a solid 3.1/1.1 million Kids 2-11 and brought in more than 2.5 million total viewers, followed by a Sunday, April 1, noon airing that scored a strong 3.8/1.3 million K2-11 and also more than 2.5 million total viewers.

The star-studded telecast scored the most votes ever with a record 223 million (+11%, over last year). Votes were cast from Feb. 23–March 31, across Nick.com, Nick's mobile site, brand-new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch apps, an iPad-optimized site, an application on Nick's Facebook page and via Twitter and custom hash tags. Nickelodeon's digital platforms celebrated their highest trafficked day ever on March 31, reaching over 2.3+ million visitors across the net's website, Facebook page, mobile and tablet sites and mobile apps (+10%). Also, the audience for the live simulcast of Countdown to Kids' Choice posted double-digit increases (+39%) across these digital platforms over last year.

Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards featured First Lady Michelle Obama who presented Taylor Swift with this year's The Big Help Award; slimings of Halle Berry, Taylor Lautner, Chris Colfer, The Big Show, The Miz, Santino Marella, Justin Bieber and host Smith. The show also featured Chris Rock, Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, Zac Efron, Josh Hutcherson, Jaden Smith, Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Heidi Klum, Cee Lo Green, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Lautner, Ludacris, Cody Simpson, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter and Nolan Gould. Musical performances included Katy Perry, performing her hit single "Part of Me," UK Pop sensation One Direction, who belted out "What Makes You Beautiful" and a preshow performance by Keke Palmer and Max Schneider, who performed "Me and You Against the World," from Nickelodeon's upcoming original TV movie, Rags.

Internationally, the 2012 KCAs delivered strong preliminary results across the board. This year's show was the highest-rated KCA ever among kids in all international markets analyzed to date, with several markets up double digits over last year: UK was up +18%, Germany up +40%, and Australia up +28. The KCAs also was the number-one show in its time slot among kids' channels in the Netherlands, UK and Australia. This year, Nickelodeon extended voting for the KCA to more countries and platforms than ever before, drawing more than 39 million votes from fans outside the US –a triple-digit increase from last year's tally of 7 million.

Following the KCAs was a brand-new episode of Nick's latest live-action series How to Rock (9:30 p.m. ET/PT), which set a ratings record for the series with tweens and total viewers and ranks as the week's number-two telecast with all kids and tweens on all TV (second only to the KCAs). The half-hour episode drew 4.4 million total viewers and posted double-digit increases over the series' season-to-date average, with a 5.7/2 million K2-11 (+37%), 8.1/1.7 million K6-11 (+41%), 8.5/1.8 million T9-14 (+51%).

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