Harry’s House Trivia | 42 facts about the album

“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