Best Billboard No. 1 Pop Song by a Former Member of One Direction

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Harry Styles, "Adore You," one week to-date, April 11, 2020	5
Zayn, "Pillowtalk," two weeks, beginning May 7, 2016	3
Liam Payne, "Strip That Down," featuring Quavo; two weeks, beginning Oct. 14, 2017	1
Niall Horan, "Slow Hands," one week, Oct. 7, 2017	0

― ilxor, Monday, 6 April 2020 21:58 (five years ago)

Niall Horan's new album is the best thing these guys have done solo

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2020 21:59 (five years ago)

pretty easily "adore you"

― ufo, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:39 (five years ago)

"adore you", the others are also fine except "strip that down"

― dyl, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:02 (five years ago)

For context (and chart novices): this is from the Billboard Pop Songs (or Mainstream Top 40) chart, which is based on airplay. It’s not the Hot 100 - Zayn Malik is still the only 1D member to have topped that, the main US chart.

The Hot 100 peak positions for these songs, for comparison:
“Pillowtalk” #1 (1 week)
“Strip That Down” #10
“Slow Hands” #11
“Adore” #6* (so far) (“Sign of the Times” peaked at #4)

That said, I’ll go with “Pillowtalk”, just for how much I loved it when it came out, although I’m not sure how well it has held up.

“Slow Hands”: not really my thing.
“Strip” is bad.
“Adore” is okay, but slightly boring. I much prefer “Lights Up” and “Watermelon Sugar”. Either one would have won this for me.

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:26 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 12 April 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 13 April 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

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