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One Direction, Sam Smith, Rita Ora, and original Band Aid crooner Bono are among those hoping to “heal the world” through the power of music. Funds from sale of the song, available on iTunes, will go toward the effort to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa, where the bulk of the [5,000 people who have died](http://time.com/3582804/ebola-death-toll-surpasses-5000-worldwide/) from the disease during the current outbreak have lived. The first Band Aid charity supergroup of musicians originally recorded the song in 1984 to fight famine in Ethiopia, raising over 8 million pounds, _BBC_ reports. The challenge in 2014 is to get people to purchase the song, and not share or stream it. 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