Topline
After weeks of anticipation, Harry Styles announced on social media Wednesday his third solo album, Harry’s House, will be released May 20.
Harry Styles poses in the press room at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention … [+]
Key Facts
Styles’ last album 2019’s Fine Line, contained the smash hits “Adore You,” “Watermelon Sugar” and “Golden.”
Fans bought 420,000 units, making it the fourth best-selling album of 2019.
Big Number
7. That’s how many albums Styles has released in his career, five of which were with the boy band One Direction, which went on hiatus in 2016.
Key Background
Styles, 28, was discovered on The X Factor and grouped into One Direction, which became one of the hottest acts of the early 2010s. Styles released his first solo album, Harry Styles, in 2017. Last year, he took Fine Line on tour. The show, called Love On Tour, was the most popular tour of the year, selling 669,000 tickets. Styles launched a gender-neutral beauty line called Pleasing last year. He has won one Grammy award.
Tangent
With his last album, Styles won an audience approaching One Direction’s. Fine Line scored consumption of over 1.5 million total album equivalent units, which includes physical and digital sales and audio and video streams, ninth-most in 2019. In 2013, at the height of One Direction’s fame and when their second album Midnight Memories was released, the group was the fourth best-selling artist of the year at over 1.9 million units total.
Further Reading
Rolling Stones, Harry Styles Were Top-Grossing Tours Of 2021 (Forbes)
Now You Can Own Harry Styles’ Nail Polish: Singer Launches Gender-Neutral Beauty Line (Forbes)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/03/23/harry-styles-to-drop-third-solo-album-harrys-house-in-may/