Harry's House

In an interview with Apple Music, Styles explained how he came up with the album title: "The album is named after Haruomi Hosono, he had an album in the '70s called , and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like 'I love that.[...] It'd be really fun to make a record called ''Harry's House'''." Styles was also inspired by a road trip he took through Italy in his deceased stepfather's car, where Styles listened to his old jazz CDs and "felt like [he] did a family thing" while on the drive. Speaking to Zane Lowe, Styles said of the track: "Boyfriends was written right at the end of Fine Line. I finished the album and we touched on it a last time, there was like an extra week to write some stuff. I recorded "Adore You", "Treat People With Kindness", and "Lights Up" […] and at the end of that session everyone left, and I started writing "Boyfriends" and it almost felt like "Ok, there's a version where we get this ready to put on [Fine Line]", and I think there was something about that just felt like "It's just gonna have its time, so like, let's not rush to get it done." And we did so many versions of it." The track was written and made in a hotel room in Tokyo on "bad rental gear" according to Styles and went through many iterations before reaching the final product. In the album's liner notes, the song is partially credited as being recorded in 'Tom's Room', referring to Kid Harpoon. The first song to be written for the album sessions was "Late Night Talking", which was written the day Styles, the band and the producers arrived at Shangri-La studios in Malibu. "Music For A Sushi Restaurant" was written early in the album process and originally considered to be the album title. Speaking to NPR, Styles said "I was in a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles with my producer and one of our songs came on from the last album, and I kind of said like, this is really strange music for a sushi restaurant. And then I was like, oh, that would be a really fun album title. And then as this as this - as the songs started being made, I kind of just said "Music For A Sushi Restaurant." "Daylight" was written as an all-nighter project as Styles was worried the track would not be finished otherwise. "Cinema" was Styles's "fun" track which he started writing while being on a treadmill. Of "Daydreaming", Styles' collaborator Tyler Johnson first sent Styles a voice note while he was driving from Palm Springs to LA called 'idea on the 101 rough' that kickstarted the track. Mayer was working in the studio across the corridor from Styles and Styles asked him to listen to the song for a breakdown section, he grabbed one of Mitch Rowland's guitars and played to the track. Styles stated he wrote the song at Sony Music Entertainment CEO Rob Stringer's house and features Stringer's ringtone in the background at his One Night Only concert for Apple Music: Live. and primarily features synth-pop, new wave, pop rock and pop-funk styles, with elements of R&B. ==Release and promotion==

Styles announced the title of his upcoming third studio album as ''Harry's House'' on 23 March 2022, unveiling its artwork, a 40-second trailer and the album's release date of 20 May 2022. In the trailer, Styles steps on the podium of a theatre and grins while a "house façade" rises near him and reversed synthesisers play in the background; the audio would later be revealed to be a backwards version of the album's closing track, "Love of My Life". Joni Mitchell, whose 1975 album The Hissing of Summer Lawns featured a track called "Harry's House / Centerpiece", tweeted that she "love[d] the title". Upon announcing the album, Styles set up an interactive website and a new Twitter account. The messages published included "you are home" and "in this world, it's just us, you know it's not the same as it was". The album was released on 20 May 2022 through Erskine and Columbia. On 15 April 2022, during his Coachella headlining performance, Styles performed "As It Was" live for the first time, in addition to two then-unreleased songs from the album, "Boyfriends" and "Late Night Talking". One month before the album's release, ''Harry's House'' was reportedly leaked on Twitter in its entirety. Sony, owner of Columbia Records, publicly condemned the leak in a since deleted tweet. On 26 May 2022, in a segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Styles and James Corden filmed a music video for the song "Daylight" directed by the latter, in which they visit an apartment belonging to some fans. Both the music video and segment were released on the show's YouTube channel on 28 May 2022. Singles "As It Was" was released as the lead single of ''Harry's House'' on 1 April 2022, having been previously announced on 28 March 2022. "As It Was" debuted atop the UK and US charts, becoming his second solo number one single in both countries, and reached the top of Australian and Canadian charts. "Late Night Talking" was released to US pop radio on 21 June 2022, as the album's second single. It reached the top five on American, Australian, British and Canadian charts. "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" was released to adult contemporary radio on 3 October 2022, as the album's third single. It peaked in the top ten on American, Australian, British and Canadian charts prior to its release as a single. "Satellite" was released as the album's fourth single on 3 May 2023. ==Critical reception==

''Harry's House'' was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 83 based on 26 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim"—Styles' highest rated album. Billie Eilish stated Styles influenced her to perform unreleased material after his Coachella performance and that the track Boyfriends was beautiful and vulnerable. Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, and Boy George also all supported the album and Styles upon release. The album also received praise from those within the entertainment industry. Author Rick Riordan hailed the album as "even better than Fine Line. "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" reminds of Paul Simon on Graceland [...] "As it Was" is infectiously listenable, and "Little Freak" is just beautifully sad." ==Commercial performance==

Global Two hours after the album was released on Apple Music, ''Harry's House'' earned the most first-day streams for a pop album released in 2022. The album ranked as the second most streamed album on Spotify in 2022. It was the 10th most streamed album on Spotify in 2023. With the entire tracklist charting within the top 15 of the ARIA Charts, the album set a new record in Australia. United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units, becoming Styles' second number-one album and the fastest-selling album of 2022. Based on the first five weeks' exclusive data from the OCC, Harry's House outperformed Fine Line in the UK by almost 200% in terms of streaming consumption at the same stage of release. The album was highlighted as helping to bring a £4 billion boost to UK music export revenue and the highest level of vinyl sales since 1990. The album and Styles' success was also credited with bringing record streaming success for UK acts at home and abroad. North America In the United States, ''Harry's House debuted at number one on the Billboard'' 200 chart with 521,500 units, consisting of 330,000 pure sales and 189,000 streaming units (from the 246.96 million on-demand streams of the album's tracks). It became Styles' third US number-one album, his biggest debut in the country, and the second-largest opening week for an album in 2022, behind Taylor Swift's Midnights. Additionally, it set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales in the US, selling 182,000 copies, and marked the second-largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. Besides the chart-topper "As It Was", three other songs reached the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100: "Late Night Talking" (at number four), "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" (at number eight) and "Matilda" (at number nine). With four concurrent top-ten hits on the chart, this made Styles the first British solo artist to achieve this, and among all British acts he joins the Beatles, who achieved the feat in 1964. == Accolades ==

''Harry's House'' has garnered many awards and nominations, including Album of the Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and British Album of the Year at the Brit Awards 2023. == Track listing ==

Note • "Daydreaming" contains a sample from "Ain't We Funkin' Now" as performed by the Brothers Johnson, written by Quincy Jones, Louis Johnson, Alex Weir, Tom Bahler and Valerie Johnson. ==Personnel==

Musicians • Harry Styles – lead vocals (all tracks), whistles (3), glockenspiel (10), keyboards (11), tubular bells (4) • Alayna Rodgers – background vocals (1, 2, 8, 9) • India Boodram – background vocals (1, 2, 8, 9) • Mitch Rowland – bass guitar, percussion (1); drums (4, 10), electric guitar (10) • Kid Harpoon – drum machine (1, 2, 4–6, 10, 13), electric guitar (1–6, 8–11, 13), synthesizer (1, 2, 4–6, 8–11, 13), bass guitar (2–11, 13); programming, tambourine (2); drums (3, 4, 8, 9, 11), keyboards (3, 8, 10), piano (3, 7), acoustic guitar (6, 7, 13), percussion (8) • Tyler Johnson – drum machine (1, 3–6, 8, 10, 13), electric guitar (1, 5, 6), synthesizer (1, 4–11, 13), background vocals (2, 5, 9), programming (2, 3, 13), horn (3), keyboards (3, 9–11), piano (4, 9, 13), bass guitar (8, 10, 11), organ (9, 11) • Ivan Jackson – trumpet (1) • Rob Harris – bass guitar, electric guitar (3) • Hal Ritson – programming (3) • Jeremy Hatcher – programming (3–5, 8, 11, 13), electric guitar (11) • Richard Adlam – programming (3) • Doug Showalter – electric guitar, percussion (4) • Pino Palladino – bass guitar (6, 9) • Dev Hynes – cello (7) • Joshua Johnson – saxophone (7) • John Mayer – electric guitar (8, 9) • Sammy Witte – programming, synthesizer (8) • Cole Kamen-Green – horn (9) • Ivan Jackson – horn (9) • Sarah Jones – percussion (10) • Ben Harper – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar (12) Technical • Kid Harpoon – production (all tracks) • Tyler Johnson – production (all tracks) • Samuel Witte – production (8), engineering (6, 8) • Randy Merrill – mastering • Spike Stent – mixing • Jeremy Hatcher – engineering • Oli Jacobs – engineering (1, 6, 10) • Hal Ritson – engineering (3) • Richard Adlam – engineering (3) • Nick Lobel – engineering (11), vocal engineering (10) • Joe Dougherty – engineering assistance • Josh Caulder – engineering assistance • Matt Wolach – engineering assistance • Adele Phillips – engineering assistance (1–11, 13) • Luke Gibbs – engineering assistance (1–11, 13) • Katie May – engineering assistance (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13) • Oli Middleton – engineering assistance (1, 6, 10) • Garry Purohit – engineering assistance (2, 3, 5–7, 9) • Matt Tuggle – engineering assistance (6) • Brian Rajartnam – engineering assistance (8) Art • Molly Hawkins – creative director • Hanna Moon – photography • Harry Lambert – styling • Patience Harding – set decoration • Bradley Pinkerton – graphic design ==Charts==

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