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Revision as of 15 : 45, 11 August 2017 by PrimeBOT ( talk contribs ) ( → ‎ Live performances : remove UTM parameters ( Google analytics ) from URLs - BRFA ) ( diff ) ← Previous revision Latest revision ( diff ) Newer revision → ( diff ) `` What Makes You Beautiful '' Single by One Direction from the album Up All Night B - side `` Na Na Na '' Released 11 September 2011 Format CD digital download Recorded July 2011 Malibu, California Kinglet Studios and Cosmos Studios ( Stockholm, Sweden ) Genre Power pop Length 3 : 23 Label Syco Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Savan Kotecha Rami Yacoub Carl Falk Producer ( s ) Rami Yacoub Carl Falk One Direction singles chronology `` What Makes You Beautiful '' ( 2011 ) `` Gotta Be You '' ( 2011 ) `` What Makes You Beautiful '' ( 2011 ) `` Gotta Be You '' ( 2011 ) Music video `` What Makes You Beautiful '' on YouTube `` What Makes You Beautiful '' is a song by English - Irish boy band One Direction. It served as their debut single and lead single from their debut studio album, Up All Night ( 2011 ). Written by Savan Kotecha and producer Rami Yacoub, the song was released by Syco Records on 11 September 2011. The uptempo power pop track features a prominent guitar - based chorus and riff. The middle eight consists of a `` na na na '' hook while the opening guitar riff interpolates The McCoys 's 1965 single `` Hang on Sloopy ''. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' was a commercial success, reaching number one in several countries. It has been certified quadruple platinum in the US with sales of 4.8 million copies as of June 2016. The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the UK Singles Chart. The song won the 2012 Brit Award for Best British Single and was generally complimented by contemporary music critics, who highlighted the appeal to the teenage audience and the pop sensibility. It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart after setting a Sony Music Entertainment pre-order record and selling 153,965 copies in its first week. The single also topped the Irish and Scottish Singles Charts, and reached the top ten on the Australian and New Zealand Singles Charts, Flemish Ultratop 50, Canadian Hot 100, and the Japan Hot 100. It has been certified quadruple platinum in the US with sales of 4.8 million copies as of June 2016. The accompanying music video, directed by John Urbano, depicts One Direction spending time on a beach in Malibu, California. The music video was uploaded to YouTube on August 19, 2011 and has accumulated more than 870 million views since it premiered. The clip garnered the group three MTV Video Music Awards at the 2012 ceremony. One Direction performed the song live on televised shows, at awards ceremonies, and on four of their major concert tours : Up All Night Tour ( 2011 -- 12 ), Take Me Home Tour ( 2013 ), Where We Are Tour ( 2014 ) and On the Road Again Tour ( 2015 ). Artists including the Piano Guys have covered `` What Makes You Beautiful ''. Contents 1 Background and production 2 Release and promotion 3 Composition 4 Critical reception 5 Chart performance 6 Music video 7 Live performances 8 Cover versions 9 Track listing 10 Credits and personnel 11 Charts 11.1 Weekly charts 11.2 Year - end charts 12 Certifications 13 Release history 14 Uses in popular culture 15 See also 16 References 17 External links Background and production After being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010, they first formed as solo singers but soon got placed as a band on 23 July 2010 One Direction were signed to Syco Music, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' was written by Savan Kotecha and Carl Falk, and was produced by Yacoub and Falk. Instrumentation was completed by Falk and Yacoub. Serban Ghenea handled the audio mixing, Tom Coyne the audio mastering, and John Hanes the mix engineering, for which Phil Seaford served as the assistant. Discussing the song 's conception, Kotecha said : `` I had the melody of the chorus in my song for about a year until I was in a hotel room in London with my wife and she was having a bad morning. She was like, `` Oh, I feel so ugly '' and I was like, `` No, you look beautiful. You do n't know how beautiful you look. '' And I was like, `` Oh, crap ! That 's a good song ! Hold on ! '' And I wrote that down. I actually wrote the song for my wife, so I went to the studio and it took a process of a couple weeks to really tweak it, but the core of it was written within two days and then tweaked a few things here and there over a couple weeks, but I mean, I still have the text message from Harry ( Styles ). When he heard the demo, I was in Miami on my way back to Sweden, and he sent me a text message saying, `` I think you got it. I think you got the one here. '' '' After recording the song at Cosmos Studios and Kinglet Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, the band felt relieved to have a song that they were happy to release as their debut single. Band member Liam Payne called the song `` perfect '', and Harry Styles said, `` When we were recording in the studio we knew instantly that we wanted this track to be our first single. '' Styles spoke to MTV News, `` I think for us we wanted to release something that was n't cheesy but it was fun. It kind of represented us, I think it took us a while to find it but I think we found the right song. '' Payne added, `` We always wanted ( the single ) to be something that people did n't expect and then when we heard it, it was n't what we expected either so it kind of fitted perfectly. '' Release and promotion `` What Makes You Beautiful '' premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 10 August 2011, and was released by Syco Music in Europe, Australia and New Zealand via digital download on 11 September 2011. A CD single was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2011, and followed in Australia and Germany on 25 November 2011 and 2 December 2011, respectively. In North America, the single was released in Canada via digital download on 31 January 2012. It was issued 14 February 2012 in the United States and was sent by Columbia Records to US contemporary hit radio ( CHR ) playlists on 28 February 2012. For the North American release of Up All Night on 13 March 2012, Columbia Records executives used social media to shape its marketing campaign. Columbia Records co-chairman Steve Barnett and his team decided to reverse the usual pattern of releasing a single on radio. Instead the label mounted a four - month marketing campaign aimed at building a fan base through social media before a single was ever released or played on the radio. The social media campaign asked fans to sign petitions and to enter video competitions to win a concert in their town. The campaign was a success as One Direction 's Facebook followers in the United States rose from 40,000 to 400,000. As a result, `` What Makes You Beautiful '' sold more than 131,000 copies in its first week, even though it had yet to be played on the radio. Radio programmers were flooded with calls from fans. Johnny Wright, who managed New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys and ' N Sync, said : `` Now they are calling the radio station, and the radio station is scratching its head, saying, `` We do n't even have that record yet ''. It 's almost like the return of the Beatles. I call it hype, but it 's positive hype because it 's all real. It 's not manufactured. No one paid these kids. '' Composition `` What Makes You Beautiful '' The song has a guitar - based chorus and riff Problems playing this file ? See media help. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' is a power pop song, with electropop influences. Running for 3 minutes and 23 seconds, the song is set in common time with a tempo of 125 beats per minute. Written in the key of E major, it follows the chord progression E -- A -- B ; vocal elements range from the note of B to G ♯. James C. McKinley Jr. of The New York Times compared its chord progression to `` La Bamba ''. The opening guitar riff has been noted as similar to that of Grease single `` Summer Nights ''. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' has a guitar - based chorus ; Digital Spy 's Robert Copsey likened it to a cross between Pink 's `` Raise Your Glass '' and McFly 's `` All About You ''. It also contains cowbell instrumentation, and the middle eight consists of an `` oh na na na '' hook. Critical reception The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave `` What Makes You Beautiful '' four out of five stars, praising its catchy melody and summarising it as `` adorable, completely innocent and bound to cause a stir amongst your mates ''. Zachary Houle of PopMatters called the song a `` nice get - up - and - go dance number. '' Ailbhe Malone of NME commended the song 's appeal to the teenage audience and its chord progression for being `` simple enough to be played on an acoustic guitar at a house party. '' Newsround called it `` fun, upbeat and incredibly catchy. '' AllMusic 's Matthew Chisling called it an `` effervescent and fresh tween love song '', and chose it as one of the best tracks on Up All Night. Sophie Goddard from Cosmopolitan called the single `` ridiculously catchy ''. Student 's Jack Murray rated `` What Makes You Beautiful '' five out of five stars and called it `` not only the best pop single of the year so far, but potentially of any X Factor contestant ever ''. Murray lauded the songwriting and light production. Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly awarded `` What Makes You Beautiful '' a B+ grade, calling the song `` shallow but crushworthy '', writing that the song shows that boy bands are not dying out. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard characterised it as `` the real deal '', regarding the song as `` endlessly playable '' as ' N Sync 's `` Bye Bye Bye ''. Lipshutz noted its `` cheeky electro - pop twist ''. Stephanie Abrahams of TIME assessed, `` The group takes cues from the boy bands of yesteryear with bubblegum lyrics about young love -- `` The way you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed '' they croon in their breakout single -- which any parent can get behind. That 's a far cry from a typical Nicki Minaj verse. '' The Observer editor Kitty Empire wrote in an assessment, `` With the exception of their persuasive No 1 single, `` What Makes You Beautiful '', their songs are n't wildly distinctive. '' `` What Makes You Beautiful '' won the BRIT Award for Best British Single at the 2012 Brit Awards, which was held on 21 February 2012. The song also won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Music : Love Song at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards. Chart performance One Direction performing `` What Makes You Beautiful '' at their Up All Night Tour, 2012 `` What Makes You Beautiful '' performed considerably well worldwide, but especially so in the British Isles, debuting at number 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 15 September 2011 ; its B - side, `` Na Na Na '' also entered at number 27. The single topped the chart for four consecutive weeks. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' became the fourteenth best - selling single of 2011 on the Irish Singles Chart. In the UK, `` What Makes You Beautiful '' received the highest ever number of pre-orders for a Sony Music Entertainment single. It sold 82,000 copies in its first two days, a figure which rose to 100,000 by the third day. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 on 18 September 2011, shifting 153,965 copies that week -- the highest first - week UK sales for any song in 2011 at the time. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' also debuted at number 1 on the Scottish Singles Chart. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' was the 20th best - selling single of 2011, moving 540,000 copies, and was the 92nd best - selling single of the 21st century in the UK by May 2012. It has sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK. In Belgium, the song debuted at number 44 on both the Flemish Ultratop 50 and the Wallonian Ultratip ; it peaked at numbers 8 and 19, respectively. Accumulating twenty - two weeks on the French Singles Chart, it debuted at number 83 and peaked at number 38. In Finland, the single debuted and peaked at number 20. On the top sixty Swedish Sverigetopplistan, the single debuted at number 49, peaked at number 29, and spent twenty - four weeks on that chart. It was certified quadruple platinum by the Swedish Recording Industry Association ( GLF ), denoting sales of 80,000 copies. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' debuted at number 15 and peaked at number 7 on the Australian Singles Chart. The single spent twenty - five weeks in the Australian Singles Chart top twenty. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' has been certified six times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ), denoting sales of 420,000 units. `` Na Na Na '' also appeared on the Australian Singles Chart of 28 November 2011 at number 84. On the New Zealand Singles Chart, the single entered at number 16, and peaked at number 2 in its fourth and fifth weeks. The song spent eleven consecutive weeks in the chart 's top ten. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand ( RIANZ ), denoting sales of 30,000 units. The single debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 9, while bowing at number 2 on the Canadian Hot Digital Songs Chart with 19,000 downloads sold, the biggest debut for a first time charted artist since the Stereos 's `` Summer Girl '' entered at number two in June 2009. The single peaked at number 7 on the Canadian Hot 100 and has been certified quadruple platinum by Music Canada, denoting sales of 320,000 copies. In the United States, `` What Makes You Beautiful '' became the highest Billboard Hot 100 debut for a British act since 1998. On 1 March 2012, the single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28, whilst bowing at number 12 on the Hot Digital Songs chart, selling 132,000 digital downloads in its first week. On the week ending 21 April 2012, `` What Makes You Beautiful '' peaked at number 4. As of 30 June 2012, the single had spent thirteen consecutive weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten. The song also became a chart success on other Billboard charts, reaching the top five on the Mainstream Top 40, Adult Pop Songs, and Hot 100 Airplay charts, whilst topping the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. The track sold 3,881,000 copies in the United States in 2012, becoming the best - selling song by a boy band in digital history. The song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) on 21 February 2013, and it has sold 4.8 million copies in the US as of June 2016. `` What Makes You Beautiful '' has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Music video The music video for `` What Makes You Beautiful '' was directed by John Urbano. Filmed over two days in July 2011, it premiered on 19 August 2011. On each of the five days preceding the video 's premiere, One Direction posted a teaser trailer of the video online. Each teaser showed footage from the video and behind the scenes, and one member of the band announcing how many days were left until the video premiere. The video opens with One Direction spending time on a Malibu, California beach intercut with scenes of them driving an orange campervan. During the second verse, a group of three girls joins the band at the beach ; in Styles ' bridge solo, he intimately sings to one girl, Madison Mcmillin, individually. During the final choruses the band and girls are shown sitting around a fire, lighting sparklers and taking photographs. On video sharing website MUZU TV, the video was the fourth most - watched music video of 2011 in the UK. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video and Most Share - Worthy Video, and earned the group the award for Best New Artist on 6 September 2012. As of July 2017, the music video has received 870 million Vevo and YouTube views. Live performances Malik and Payne performing `` What Makes You Beautiful '' at the Rockefeller Center on 12 March 2012 One Direction performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' for the first time on Red or Black ? on 10 September 2011. The performance started with hosts Ant & Dec announcing that the band was supposedly running late for their appearance, and cut to a video of One Direction boarding a London Tube carriage full of fans, as the studio version of the song began playing. Each fan on the tube was given a numbered ticket. The band and fans disembarked the tube and made their way to the television studio, where the remainder of the song was sung live. After the song, Styles caught a numbered ticket raining onstage. The number corresponded to a ticket held by a fan from the tube ; the colour of the fan 's shirt was the correct answer for the Red or Black ? challenge. The band performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' after its B - side, `` Na Na Na '', at the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards on 9 October 2011. The band also performed the song to open telethon Children in Need 2011 on 19 November 2011. After `` Gotta Be You '' and `` One Thing '', One Direction performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' at Capital FM 's Jingle Bell Ball on 4 December 2011, at The O Arena. They performed a medley of `` She Makes Me Wanna '' and `` What Makes You Beautiful '' with JLS on The X Factor 's eighth series final on 10 December 2011. The group performed `` One Thing '' and `` What Makes You Beautiful '' on Dancing on Ice on 5 February 2012. In Italy, the band performed the song at the 2012 Sanremo Music Festival on 14 February 2012. In France, they performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' and `` One Thing '' on Le Grand Journal on 22 February 2012. In the United States, One Direction performed the song along with `` More than This '' and `` One Thing '' for the first time on The Today Show at the Rockefeller Center on 12 March 2012. An estimated 15,000 fans descended on the plaza. Melissa Lonner, senior entertainment producer for The Today Show, said : `` One Direction is relatively unknown with no hits yet. They basically exploded, and all the adults are saying, ' Who are these people, and how do they know about it ? ' ''. They also performed the song at the 2012 Kids ' Choice Awards on 31 March 2012. One Direction performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' and `` One Thing '' on the NBC comedy television show Saturday Night Live on 7 April 2012, and also appeared in a comedy sketch with Sofía Vergara. In Australia, they performed `` One Thing '' and `` What Makes You Beautiful '' at the 54th Logie Awards, where they also presented an award for `` Most Popular New Female Talent '' on 15 April 2012. On 12 August 2012, One Direction performed `` What Makes You Beautiful '' at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London, which represented the handover to Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. It was included on the set list of the group 's headlining sold - out show at Madison Square Garden on 3 December 2012. One Direction performed the song on two of their major concert tours : Up All Night Tour ( 2011 -- 12 ) and Take Me Home Tour ( 2013 ). Also this song added in Where We Are Tour ( 2014 ) & On the Road Again Tour ( 2015 ). The second verse of the song had originally been sung by Malik. After Malik 's departure, Payne took his verse. Cover versions The song was covered for American television series Glee by Kevin McHale, Chord Overstreet, Harry Shum, Jr., Samuel Larsen, and Damian McGinty in the episode titled `` Prom - asaurus ''. It was first aired on 8 May 2012, and is the 19th episode of the third season. Their characters Artie Abrams ( McHale ), Sam Evans ( Overstreet ), Mike Chang ( Shum ), Joe Hart ( Larsen ), and Rory Flanagan ( McGinty ), covered the song in the episode, performing a choreographed dance routine to it. Sarah Maloy of Billboard acknowledged, `` Screaming girls and choreographed boy band moves are, of course, in no short supply. '' Maloy described Glee 's version as `` barely changing the sound or style of the original version. '' Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone wrote, `` While One Direction 's original manages to pack a pop punch, Glee 's take kind of hits the mark. ( Literally. The Glee boys prance across the stage in the same path as the U.K. heartthrobs. ) '' Futterman concluded that it was the fourth best performance of that episode. Glee 's cover was released for digital download through the iTunes Store on 8 May 2012. It charted at numbers 93 and 163 on the Canadian Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, respectively. In July 2012, the Piano Guys uploaded on YouTube an instrumental piano version of the song, which went viral. Track listing Digital download and CD single `` What Makes You Beautiful '' -- 3 : 24 `` Na Na Na '' -- 3 : 10 Credits and personnel `` What Makes You Beautiful '' Tom Coyne -- mastering Carl Falk -- writing, production, programming, instruments, guitar Serban Ghenea -- mixing John Hanes -- mix engineering Savan Kotecha -- writing Phil Seaford -- mix engineering assistance Rami Yacoub -- writing, production, programming, instruments, bass `` Na Na Na '' Dick Beetham -- mastering Iain James -- writing Savan Kotecha -- writing Matt Lawrence -- engineering Greg Marriot -- engineering assistance James Murray -- writing Matt Squire -- writing, production, backing vocals, mixing Mustapha Omer -- writing Charts Weekly charts Chart ( 2011 -- 12 ) Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 7 Austria ( Ö3 Austria Top 40 ) 28 Belgium ( Ultratop 50 Flanders ) 8 Belgium ( Ultratop 50 Wallonia ) 19 Brazil ( Billboard Brasil Hot 100 ) 24 Brazil Hot Pop Songs 6 Canada ( Canadian Hot 100 ) 9 Czech Republic ( Rádio Top 100 ) 13 Denmark ( Tracklisten ) 26 Finland ( Suomen virallinen lista ) 20 France ( SNEP ) 39 Germany ( Official German Charts ) 40 Ireland ( IRMA ) 1 Italy ( FIMI ) 41 Japan ( Japan Hot 100 ) 3 Mexico ( Billboard Mexican Airplay ) 1 Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 63 New Zealand ( Recorded Music NZ ) 2 Scotland ( Official Charts Company ) 1 Slovakia ( Rádio Top 100 ) 42 Spain ( PROMUSICAE ) 40 Sweden ( Sverigetopplistan ) 29 Switzerland ( Schweizer Hitparade ) 16 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 1 US Billboard Hot 100 4 US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) 8 US Adult Top 40 ( Billboard ) 5 US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) 1 US Mainstream Top 40 ( Billboard ) 3 US Rhythmic ( Billboard ) 33 Year - end charts Chart ( 2011 ) Position Australia ( ARIA ) 69 Ireland ( IRMA ) 14 New Zealand ( RIANZ ) 28 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 20 Chart ( 2012 ) Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 17 Canada ( Canadian Hot 100 ) 13 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 85 US Billboard Hot 100 10 US Pop Songs 15 US Adult Contemporary 15 US Adult Pop Songs 23 Chart ( 2013 ) Peak position UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 182 Certifications Region Certification Certified units / Sales Australia ( ARIA ) 7 × Platinum 490,000 Belgium ( BEA ) Gold 15,000 Canada ( Music Canada ) 8 × Platinum 640,000 Denmark ( IFPI Denmark ) 2 × Platinum 60,000 Italy ( FIMI ) Platinum 30,000 Japan ( RIAJ ) Platinum 250,000 Mexico ( AMPROFON ) 3 × Platinum 180,000 New Zealand ( RMNZ ) 2 × Platinum 30,000 Norway ( IFPI Norway ) 7 × Platinum 70,000 Sweden ( GLF ) 4 × Platinum 160,000 Switzerland ( IFPI Switzerland ) Platinum 30,000 United Kingdom ( BPI ) Platinum 1,000,000 United States ( RIAA ) 4 × Platinum 4,888,000 sales figures based on certification alone shipments figures based on certification alone Release history Region Date Format Label Australia 11 September 2011 Digital download Syco Music Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United Kingdom 12 September 2011 CD single Australia 4 October 2011 Contemporary hit radio 25 November 2011 CD single Germany 2 December 2011 Canada 31 January 2012 Digital download Columbia Records United States 14 February 2012 Digital download 28 February 2012 Contemporary hit radio Uses in Popular culture During One Direction 's appearance on Sesame Street in its 45th season, they parodied `` What Makes You Beautiful '' with the song `` What Makes `` U '' Useful ``. 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Question: who wrote the one direction song what makes you beautiful
Answer: Savan Kotecha