To have it on a multi-platinum selling album is quite nice." During the album's UK launch in late 2011, member Louis Tomlinson referred to the song as his favourite track on the album.
Sheeran acknowledged that he was happy with the outcome, "It was a song I was never going to use. If you want one of these songs, have it." The song ended up on the deluxe edition of the album. As the boy band did not have enough songs for their album, Sheeran told Styles, "Here's a CD. Sheeran had a CD with him of 40 songs that he was going to give to publishers. The group were putting their debut studio album together at the time. In an April 2012 interview with, Sheeran said that he wrote the track "years ago." In 2011, Sheeran met One Direction's Harry Styles at his " guitarist's friend's house". "Moments" was written by Ed Sheeran and Si Hulbert, and produced by Hulbert. After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album. In February 2011, the boy band and other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour. Recording for their debut studio album, Up All Night, began in January 2011. The song was co-written by Ed Sheeran ( pictured).Īfter being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010, One Direction were signed to Syco Music. One Direction performed the song on all three of their major concert tours: Up All Night Tour (2011–12), Take Me Home Tour (2013) and Where We Are Tour (2014). Upon the release of Up All Night, "Moments" charted in lower regions on the singles charts of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom due to strong digital download sales. The ballad received generally positive reviews from music critics, who noted the song's memorability and complimented its composition.
Instrumentation includes a lightly strummed guitar and intermediate piano lines. The song is a mid- tempo pop ballad about a love lost to distance, or a boy who commits suicide after the death of his lover. In 2011, as One Direction member Harry Styles told Sheeran that the boy band did not have enough songs for their album, Sheeran offered "Moments" as a track that he "was never going to use". It was written by Ed Sheeran, and Si Hulbert, the song's producer. " Moments" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction from their debut studio album, Up All Night (2011).
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