“Harry’s House” is the third solo album by Harry Styles and the one that won his first “Album of the Year” at the Grammys 2023.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the album.
- Harry’s House is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Harry Styles
- It was eleased on 20 May 2022 by Columbia Records and Erskin
- The album was largely written and recorded during 2020 and 2021
- It has been noted as Styles’ most introspective work
- Musically, it is inspired by city pop and features pop-funk, pop rock, synth-pop and R&B styles
- It was reportedly being leaked a month before its release
- Harry’s House debuted with the best first-week sales in Styles’ career
- It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units
- Becoming the fastest-selling and best-selling album of 2022 in the country
- It also debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 521,500 album-equivalent units
- Including 330,000 album sales
- Making it the largest opening week of 2022 in the United States
- It debuted at number one in various other countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland
- Harry’s House was met with critical acclaim
- It was supported by the singles “As It Was”, “Late Night Talking”, and “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”
- The first of which debuted atop the UK and US charts
- Becoming Styles’ second solo number-one song in both countries
- Besides the chart-topper “As It Was”, three other songs were concurrently in the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100
- These were “Late Night Talking”, “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” and “Matilda”
- Making Styles the first British solo artist to achieve this feat
- The album was nominated for the 2022 Mercury Music Prize and the 2023 Brit Award for Album of the Year
- At the 65th Grammy Awards, the album won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album
- In an interview with Apple Music, Styles explained how he came up with the album title
- The initial idea behind the album came when Styles wanted to take the title in a literal way so he could make an acoustic extended play recorded at his own house
- The album is considered Styles’s most introspective of his career thus fair
- According to Styles the central concept of ‘house’ is a metaphor for the inside of his mind rather than a “geographical location”
- Speaking on the album’s concept, Styles said “It was much more of an internal thing”
- The album was largely written and recorded during 2020 and 2021, “Boyfriends”, however, was initially written during the final week of Fine Line (2019) recording
- The first song to be written for the album was “Late Night Talking”
- The song was written the day Styles, the band and the producers arrived at Shangri-La studios in Malibu
- “Matilda” is titled after the lead character from a book of the same name, written by Roald Dahl
- The song was inspired by a relationship Styles had with someone who was going through difficulty
- In an interview with Zane Lowe, Style’s stated he wrote the song to show he was listening: “Sometimes it’s just about listening. I hope that’s what I did here. If nothing else, it just says, ‘I was listening to you”
- The album features John Mayer on lead guitar on “Cinema” and “Daydreaming”
- “Boyfriends” lyrically discusses the experience of romantic relationships in which “people don’t treat each other very nicely sometimes” that Styles observed in his sister and friends when dating other people as well as his own experiences with dating
- “Cinema” was Styles’s “fun” track which he started writing while being on the treadmill and continued writing piecewise
- “Love of My Life” is Styles’s way of showing his love and appreciation to England and home
- 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”
- This marks Styles’ highest rated album
- Harry’s House was included in various best-of lists of 2022 albums
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