Can you sing What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction?

Boy-band engineering at its most democratic: the researched range runs B2 to G#4, a 21 semitone span, but the wide number hides a friendly layout. Verses bounce through the low-middle, the chorus lifts into bright singalong territory, and the deciding moment is the final chorus stack, where an energy score of 80 asks for audible grin more than raw power.

Tenors are effectively custom-fit: the G#4 top sits 1 semitone under their ceiling, and only the B2 bottom pokes 1 below their floor, a note most will happily soften. Baritones face 3 semitones over the top, so a 3 semitone drop is their honest setting, with lows to spare. Basses are 8 over the ceiling and are fighting the architecture; altos clear the top easily but sit 6 short at the bottom, so a healthy lift restores the verses. No verified key is stored on this entry, so set it from the last chorus and confirm the verse bottom still speaks. One Direction split these lines among five singers; a soloist inherits all of it, which is the real challenge hiding inside an easier rating.

Practice cue: sing the chorus once smiling and once deadpan, and record both. Keep whichever ring you hear in the smiling take; that brightness is the genre.

Written from this song's researched range on file, B2 to G#4 (21 semitones). July 2026.