One Direction Covers 'Billboard'

One Direction get the pop-art effect on this week’s issue of Billboard mag, out on stands NOW.
The guys — Niall, Zayn, Louis, Liam and Harry – became the first British band to debut at No. 1 in the U.S. without a runaway radio hit.
“The Internet in general—YouTube and Twitter and Facebook—that’s where they found us,” Niall dished about their fans. “It’s crazy to us. [The fans have] proven over and over again how strong the power of the Internet is.”
Simon Cowell, who signed 1D to his Syco Records imprint after they won X Factor in 2010 shared, “I don’t like to say what’s going to happen in a year’s time, because I genuinely don’t know. Nobody sits here with some grotesque master plan. You just go, look after the guys, respect the fans and, most importantly, you’ve got to make fantastic records. Because without that, it doesn’t work. If you start looking at them as objects, it dehumanizes them.”