Harry Styles’ Debut Album Broke A Huge Chart Record
Harry Styles’ debut album released just over a week ago, and it’s already smashing chart records.
The self-titled debut sold 230,000 album units in its first week over in the US, as it soared to the top spot on the Billboard 200. Of that number, 193,000 were traditional album sales, which meant that, as reported byBillboard,'Harry Styles' had the biggest debut sales week for a U.K. male artist’s first full-length album since records began in 1991.
Sam Smith’s'In The Lonely Hour', released in 2014 with 166,000 sales in its first week, has now been pushed back to the second spot.
In the 61-year history of the Billboard 200 – the record chart ranking the 200 most popular albums in the US – Harry Styles is just the second UK male artist to go Number One with a debut album. The first? Styles’ former bandmate, Zayn Malik. 'Mind'' of Mine', released in 2016, sold 157,000 units.
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Zayn and Harry’s huge success across the pond sees One Direction join an elite club where individual members have left and gone on to achieve solo Number One albums. The previous groups? Destiny’s Child, which saw Beyoncé andLeToya Luckett both leap into the top spot, as well as George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles, and supergroup Blind Faith’s Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.
In other news, Harry Styles’ debut went Number One in the UK. For the full UK chart update, head here.
Watch Harry perform an acoustic version of ‘Two Ghosts’ here.
Meanwhile, Styles’ Carpool Karaoke involved gold latex and an incredible Julia Roberts impression. Make sure to watch it here.
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