Harry Styles' third solo album, Harry’s House, debuts at No.1 on the album chart, with first week consumption of 113,812 units.
Significantly more than the rest of the Top 20 combined, and more than 10 times the 10,838 sales that earn Ed Sheeran’s = a 3-2 advance, it is the first album to exceed 100K sales in a week since Adele’s 30 sold 102,261 copies on its second week at No.1 25 weeks ago, and records the highest tally since the same Adele title debuted with sales of 261,856, 26 weeks ago. It instantly claims runners-up position on the year-to-date rankings behind = (196,898 sales).
Five vinyl editions of Harry’s House contribute a massive 36,041 sales - 31.67% of the total – to the album’s tally, which also includes 21,766 CDs, 6,878 cassettes, 3,739 digital downloads and 45,388 sales-equivalent streams. It is the highest weekly vinyl sale achieved by any album this century, easily surpassing the previous high of 29,891 set by ABBA’s Voyage on debut 28 weeks ago. Instantly becoming the 70th biggest-selling album on vinyl in the 21st century, Harry’s House nevertheless trails cumulative vinyl sales of 61,090 for Fine Line, and 38,925 for Harry Styles, which are 26th and 65th in the rankings. Incidentally, vinyl sales of Harry’s House are higher than any album has achieved across all formats in a week hitherto in 2022, surpassing the 31,187 copies Dance Fever sold for Florence + The Machine last week.
Styles’ second No.1 album as a solo artist – and sixth in total, including four as a member of One Direction – Harry’s House also delivers his best weekly sale as a solo artist surpassing the 56,630 copies his eponymous debut solo when it entered at No.1 in May 2017. Follow-up Fine Line sold 49,082 copies debuting at No.3 in December 2019, peaking at No.2 55 weeks later, on massively lower sales of 5,349. Albums by One Direction recorded sales in excess of 100,000 in a week seven times, with a top tally of 237,338 secured by their third album, Midnight Memories, on debut in November 2013.
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Harry Styles reasserts himself in grand style, with As It Was increasing consumption 23.12% week-on-week to 80,725 units on its eight straight week at No.1 – the longest run since Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits reigned for 11 weeks last summer/autumn – while Late Night Talking and Music For A Sushi Restaurant become the 13th and 14th hits of his solo career, opening at No.2 (52,214 sales) and No.3 (45,690 sales) respectively.
The surge in consumption of As It Was push it to seventh place in Styles’ personal best-sellers list, with consumption of 560,639 units, It jumps 11-6 on the year-to-date rankings.
Sheeran’s clean sweep of the top three (and nine tracks in the Top 10) in 2017 ultimately triggered a change in chart regulations, resulting in primary artists being allowed only three tracks in the Top 75. Were it not in existence, all 13 tracks from Styles’ album would be in the Top 17 this week. Instead, 10 of them are ‘starred-out’, these being Matilda (42,881 sales), Little Freak (36,736 sales), Grapejuice (35,160 sales), Daylight (34,450 sales), Cinema (31,135 sales), Satellite (30,261 sales), Keep Driving (29,937 sales), Daydreaming (29,779 sales), Love Of My Life (28,941 sales) and Boyfriends (26,188 sales).
Sales courtesy of Music Week
