Extra streams meant that the boys - Mullingar man Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne - made over half a million sterling in less than one week. Their Spotify streams, where every stream is worth £0.0034 (€0.0037), increased by 159.5 million in the week following their anniversary. With Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer taken into account, their earnings were probably much higher. When it comes to the boys' solo songs, former member Zayn Malik's Pillowtalk boasted the highest earnings per follower than any of the others' solo tracks. He released his debut solo album Flicker in 2017 and his enormously successful second album, Heartbreak Weather, in March 2020.

Source: Irish Independent September 30, 2020 09:00 UTC