page_title: More than This (One Direction song)
section_title: Promotion
hierarchical_section_title: More than This (One Direction song) / Promotion
caption_attribution_description: English: One Direction on the Today Show 13 March 2012, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne performing "More Than This"
context_page_description: "More Than This" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction from their debut studio album, Up All Night. It was produced by Brian Rawling and Paul Meehan, and was composed by Jamie Scott. Primarily backed by synthesizers, the track is an acoustic pop ballad about an unrequited love. "More than This", the album's fourth and final single, was released digitally by Syco Music on 25 May 2012.
  "More than This" obtained generally favourable reviews from critics, who commended the balladry, but only charted on Australian and Irish charts. An accompanying music video, directed by Andy Saunders, depicts the group performing the track live as part of their Up All Night Tour. One Direction performed the ballad during two of their major concert tours: Up All Night Tour and Take Me Home Tour.
context_section_description: The accompanying music video was directed by Andy Saunders at the Bournemouth International Centre in January 2012, as part of One Direction's Up All Night Tour (2011–12). On 9 May 2012, Sony Music Australia disclosed via social networking website Twitter that a video for the track would premiere on 11 May. A 30-second preview of the clip, which showed the group gather around a couch onstage and sing the piece, premiered on Entertainment Tonight on 9 May. On 11 May, the clip debuted, a live performance of the song featured on their debut video album, Up All Night: The Live Tour, which was released on 28 May. Writing for MTV News, Jocelyn Vena suggested that fans would appreciate the clip's sequences.
  On 12 March 2012, One Direction performed "More than This", "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" at the Rockefeller Center on The Today Show. An estimated 15,000 fans descended on the plaza. The group also performed the song during two of their major concert tours: Up All Night Tour and Take Me Home Tour (2013). Jane Stevenson of Canoe.ca listed the performance of "More than This" at Toronto's Molson Canadian Amphitheatre among the show's highlights.
caption: Zayn Malik and Liam Payne performing "More than This" at the Rockefeller Center
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