Two weeks from today, Nickelodeon boy band Big Time Rush will launch its Better With U tour in Las Vegas, and starting one week after that (in Chicago on February 24), they will be joined by some very special guests: One Direction.
EW has obtained an exclusive photo of the two bands together and ready to tour the country. (Wishing all nine gents could be on your desktop?
Are you by chance unfamiliar with One Direction? That’s likely to change.
The British fivesome, constructed by Simon Cowell during The X-Factor UK‘s 2010 season, has already taken the motherland by storm — their first single “What Makes You Beautiful” became the most pre-ordered single in Sony Music’s history — but now they’re teaming up with Big Time Rush to launch a Stateside career.
To appease the masses of eager young females, “What Make You Beautiful” will be made available on digital retailers on Valentine’s Day (a stroke of marketing genius if I’ve ever heard one), and Columbia Records says in a statement that
“due to overwhelming fan demand,” their debut album Up All Night will be released one week early on March 13.
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