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[POP] What do you do when you’re barely 22 with a net worth of over $40 million bucks and the boy band you sing in goes on hiatus? You launch a solo career, of course. And for Ireland’s Niall Horan, also a member of One Direction, it seems to be paying off. Now almost 25, Horan’s album for Capitol, Flicker, has fared better in other countries than in the US, but his singles — “This Town,” “Slow Hands” “Too Much to Ask,” have all sold gold or multi-platinum (500,000 or over 1,000,000 copies/downloads) here according to RIAA figures, making him a huge pop star in his own right. Horan credits influences like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and Michael Buble for his approach to music, which is on the folksier side of pop. He’s also an avid follower of golf, cricket and rugby. Fellow country-pop young’in Maren Morris will open Horan’s show at Darien Lake on Friday, September 7.