At the beginning of his career, Liam Payne gave an audition on a British Singing Competition – The X Factor, when he was just fourteen. However, he got rejected and asked to retry after two years.
As told, Payne made his come back to the show in 2010 for the seventh series. He gave his best with the Michael Bublé version “Cry Me a River,” receiving all the attention form the crowd and a standing ovation from Simon Cowell.
Although Payne didn't win the show, he succeeded to gather a huge attention and later became one of the famous personality on the music industry, through his band, One Direction.
After a long joyful journey with the One Direction, Payne started working with producer “Big Payno” or and made a remake of several tracks. Most of the credit for the big hit I Won’t Break a part, by Cheryl Cole’s album Only Human goes to Payne.
In 2014, Liam hit the cover of Attitude magazine, awarded as the Sexiest Man of the Year. Payne is the only director of a famous Australian Band, “5 Seconds of Summer.”
Currently, he revealed that he signed a recording contract with Capitol Records, making a release of his solo song “Strip That Down,” on 19 May 2017
After gaining a huge popularity and success, he earns a good amount of money, and his current estimated net worth is 50 million Euros.