One Direction made £1 million each for tour before selling a single ticket

 
Raking it in: One Direction made $1 million each for their tour before selling a ticket (Picture: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Jennifer Ruby2 July 2015
The Weekender

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One Direction made a cool £1 million each for simply signing up to take part in their Where Are We Now tour.

The former X Factor stars, who are now a foursome after Zayn Malik sensationally quit earlier this year, received the huge pay out before tickets even went on sale.

New figures released show that company ODOT (One Direction On Tour), made £6.1 million in one year, during which they performed in numerous cities all over the world from April through to October.

Despite personally raking in a six figure sum each, the band raised £600,000 for Stand Up To Cancer after they donated 50p of every ticket sold to the charity.

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On top of their tour fee, it was revealed last year that the band's other company 1D Media had assets of just under £50 million.

The boys have just announced plans for their fourth fragrance, promoting the launch with a funny spoof video released last week.

Harry Styles can be seen clad in hiking gear as he treks to find “Mountain Fresia from the highest mountain”.

Liam Payne then joins him in a scuba diving suit having collected a lump of amber from the “deepest ocean” while Louis Tomlinson delivers an “organic” apricot from “space”.

One Direction are currently in the middle of their On The Road Again tour, which kicked off in Australia in February and is due to come to an end at the end of October.

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