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.
Sam Ryder on SPACE MAN's success amid Harry Styles Number 1 race: "We've stripped away Eurovision's negativity and shone a light in its place"
19.05.2022 - 21:57 / officialcharts.com
In recent years, the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entrants have faced a barrage of negativity, nay-sayers and 'nul points' jibes. A country convinced it was a laughing stock, its accusations of 'political voting' cast a grey cloud over any hope of success.
Then, last weekend, everything changed. Silky-haired TikTok star Sam Ryder (bet he bagged himself a great Moroccan Oil goody bag) won the hearts of Europe with SPACE MAN; scoring 466 points and placing second to winners Ukraine.
Since then, the song's rocketed up the Official Singles Chart; with Sam now finding himself in a nail-biting chart race against Harry Styles and his six-week-strong chart-topper As It Was. So, ahead of tomorrow's result, we caught up with Sam to talk stamping out Eurovision stigmas.
Discussing his mission to silence Eurovision sceptics, Sam told OfficialCharts.com: “We wanted to take on this negative Eurovision stigma in the UK – this habitual loop of cynicism and telling ourselves Europe doesn’t like the UK.
"That was absolutely not the case, we don’t subscribe to that narrative whatsoever. The result gives strength to that idea. We’ve stripped away at the negativity and shone a bit of light in its place."
He added: "Eurovision is my favourite thing in the world – I’m so stoked that I got to be a part of this story with my friends and my team.
"Just to sit in that green room, amongst some of the most talented young artists around Europe having the courage to represent their country in front of a mind-boggling number of people was an honour."
Stream Sam's single SPACE MAN below:Asked how he feels to be battling it out for Number 1 against Harry Styles, Sam told us: "It feels amazing, Harry is a legend. I feel like what Harry stands for, as a
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