Harry Styles on track for Number One as album becomes fastest selling of 2022

Harry Styles and Elvis Presley are both pop-culture sensations who crossed over to movies after wildly successful music careers. But for “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, their status as generational icons made Styles a poor choice to play The King in his new biopic.

Harry Styles will appear on the YouTube series The First Take.The pop star has recorded his session for the Japanese music series on YouTube, which arrives this Monday (June 13).The First Take challenges artists to perform whatever song they’d like to, but the caveat is that it has to be in one take with no vocal or visual effects.Previous performances have come from CHAI, Tomorrow X Together and many others.A short teaser of Styles’ attempt has been shared ahead of its airing – watch below.⠀ THE FIRST TAKE⠀ ⠀ ⠀ OUT AT MONDAY 6/13 9AM EST 6/13 6AM PST 6/13 2PM BST 6/13 10PM JST▶︎ https://t.co/xVntU2Qokq・#THEFIRSTTAKE pic.twitter.com/8g3AQ6Q5Ou— THE FIRST TAKE (@The_FirstTake) June 7, 2022Viewers on Eastern Standard Time in the US can watch the performance from 9am on Monday, while Pacific Standard Time viewers can catch it from 6am. UK viewers can watch it from 2pm while those in Japan can see it from 10pm.Meanwhile, Baz Luhrmann has explained why he didn’t cast Styles in his Elvis biopic.The director said in a new interview that the pop star “is a really talented actor” but wasn’t quite right for the role that eventually went to Austin Butler.

Baz Luhrmann is opening up about the main reason why Harry Styles wasn’t chosen to portray Elvis Presley in the upcoming Elvis movie.

Harry Styles has donated his fee from the new Apple AirPods advert to a refugee aid charity, the International Rescue Committee (IRC).The star is featured in the new commercial for the company’s AirPods with spatial audio alongside ‘Music For A Sushi Restaurant’, the opening song of his new album ‘Harry’s House’.Following the unveiling of the advert last week, Styles announced that he would be donating his paycheque from it the IRC, a humanitarian aid organisation. The group are currently involved in helping the more than 6million refugees who have been displaced from Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February.“Thank you to @HarryStyles and @Apple for your generous donation to the IRC,” the charity tweeted, confirming the star’s donation.

Despite strong competition from Liam Gallagher, Harry Styles has earned a second week at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with Harry’s House, as it flies ahead on streaming services.

Harry Styles‘ hugely successful new album ‘Harry’s House’ has garnered a series of chart accolades and broken numerous records across the world.In addition to recording 2022’s fastest selling album in the UK, Styles achieved the rare feat of simultaneously holding the number one album and number one track (‘Harry’s House’ lead single ‘As It Was’) in a number of countries.The accomplishment was made in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Belgium. Additionally, ‘Harry’s House’ went to number one in Norway, Finland and Denmark.In the US, the album had the largest first week of 2022 for any album, and was only the fourth album in the last 18 months to earn at least 500,000 units in a single week.Styles’ third consecutive US number one, it extends his record as the first UK male artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 with their first three albums, and the biggest sales week for a British male artist’s album since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales data in 1991.‘As It Was’ has been the US number one single for four weeks, with three additional songs also in the top 10, and every song on the album in the top 30.

Harry Styles has beaten the one-week vinyl sales record previously held by Taylor Swift for her ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ in the US last year with his third solo album, ‘Harry’s House‘.The pop star has made the biggest debut (521,500 equivalent album units in its first week) since Adele’s ’30’ racked up 839,000 units last November. In the process, he’s also set the record for the biggest vinyl sales week of the modern era [via Billboard].‘Harry’s House’ includes 330,000 in sales without streaming and individual track sales factored in.

Harry Styles has today scored a chart double earning Number One spots in both the album and single charts.His third solo album, ‘Harry’s House’ went straight to Number One and is currently the fastest selling album of 2022 so far.It’s the first time in 2022 that someone has scored a chart double, the last being Ed Sheeran with his album ‘=’ and ‘Merry Christmas’ with Elton John at the end of last year.Styles’ latest album had over 113,000 chart sales this week, more than his 2017 self-titled debut, which scored 57,000 sales, and 2019’s ‘Fine Line’ at 49,000.Elsewhere in the album charts, trap rapper M Huncho‘s debut solo album ‘Chasing Euphoria’ reached Number Five, while Everything Everything have scored a career-best with ‘Raw Data Feel’ reaching Number Four.Styles is also at Number One in the singles chart too, with ‘As It Was’ taking the top spot. This single is now the longest-running Number One single of the year so far.

segment for Thursday’s episode of “The Late Late Show With James Corden” and asked random people to help them with their three-hour DIY project.Styles, 28, and Corden, 43, only spent $300 on the video and started the show by knocking on random doors to find someone who would let them use their apartment.“I thought this would be easier Harry, I’ve got to be honest — I thought your face would open a lot of doors,” Corden said as they peruse the city’s searching for a location.The talk show host and the “Harry’s House” singer found help in Brooklynites Isabel, Caroline, Hadley and Sydney.The foursome shares a sun-streamed pad that seemed like the perfect setting to shoot. The “Carpool Karaoke” host then took a tour of the apartment to help form his vision for the music video and saw that one of the girls was a big fan of the “Dunkirk” star.Her room was complete with her own Styles snapshot collage, a One Direction book and a photo of the “Watermelon Sugar” crooner dressed as Harry Potter.“We need to hide all of this because I’m worried you’re a psychopath,” he announced to her.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“This is a very special evening for me, for us,” Harry Styles said to a crowd of nearly 20,000 at the UBS Arena on Friday, and to millions over an Apple Music livestream. “We’re in New York City for one night only, and we’ll be playing this new album for you the way it was intended to be heard: From start to finish.”And with a giant neon outline of a house behind in, that’s what Styles and his tightly drilled band did: Premiere his just-released third solo album, “Harry’s House,” at a “One Night Only” concert, an arena-sized album release party offered for Styles’ most devoted fans (even if the title was a little bit of a misnomer: There’s a similar concert taking place in London next week).

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It’s called “Harry’s House,” but the much-anticipated new album by the hottest male pop star on the planet — that would be, duh, Harry Styles — plays more like “Harry’s Boudoir.”Indeed, the sexy intimacy on Styles’ third solo album makes you feel like you’re peeking through the bedroom door as the former One Direction heartthrob is putting it down with his current flame, actress Olivia Wilde.Yup, putting it down.Owning all of the hip-swerving swagger that made “Watermelon Sugar” a No. 1 hit in 2020 and won Styles his first Grammy, the singer is a ball of falsetto friskiness at the beginning of “Harry House.” “Green eyes, fried rice, I could cook an egg on you/Late night, game time, coffee on the stove/You’re sweet ice cream, but you could use a flake or two/Blue bubblegum twisted around your tongue,” coos Styles, grinding up agains a greasy bass line in his best falsetto at the beginning of the album opener “Music for a Sushi Restaurant.Clearly, the trumpets aren’t the only things that are horny on this jazz-kissed come-on.

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Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles’ romance is still going strong! The couple is getting in some time together before the “As It Was” singer hits the road to continue his  concert tour.«Harry and Olivia are packing in as much quality time now as possible before he hits the road again,» a source tells ET. “Harry's got two more May concert dates before he hits the European leg of his tour in June.” Now that things are starting to get back to normal and their workloads are picking back up, Wilde, 38, and Styles, 28, have had to put in a little more work.