Harry's House

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Harry's House
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Studio album by Harry Styles
Released 20 May 2022 (2022-05-20)
Recorded 2020–2021[1]
Studio
Genre
Length 41:48
Label
Producer
Harry Styles chronology
Fine Line
(2019)		 Harry's House
(2022)
Singles from Harry's House

Harry's House is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Harry Styles, released on 20 May 2022 by Columbia and Erskine Records.[3][4][5] Musically, the album features pop-funk, pop rock, synth-pop and R&B styles. It was supported by the singles "As It Was" and "Late Night Talking"; the former debuted atop the UK and US charts, becoming Styles' second solo number-one song in both countries. The album was met with acclaim from music critics.

Despite the album reportedly being leaked a month before its release, Harry's House showcased the best first-week sales in Harry Styles' career. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units, becoming the fastest-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 for an album in 2022. 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.

Background

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 Hosono's House [sic], 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'."[6] The album features John Mayer on lead guitar on "Cinema" and "Daydreaming".[7]

The first song to be written for the album was "Late Night Talking". "Late Night Talking" was written the day Styles, the band and the producers arrived at Shangri-La studios in Malibu.[8] The only song not to be written during 2020 and 2021 was "Boyfriends". Styles initially began writing "Boyfriends" during the final week of Fine Line (2019) recording.[8]

Composition

Musically, Harry's House is a pop-funk, pop rock, synth-pop and R&B album.[9][10][11] Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone described the albums musical sound as "bright", especially the productions use of synths and horns over synth-pop and R&B songs.[11]

Release and promotion

English singer and songwriter Harry 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 as 20 May 2022.[12] In the trailer, Styles steps on the podium of a theatre and grins while a "house façade" rises near him and synthesisers play in the background.[13] Joni Mitchell, who included a track called "Harry's House / Centerpiece" on her 1975 album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, tweeted that she "love[d] the title".[4] Upon announcing the album, he set up an interactive website and a new Twitter account. The messages say "you are home" and "in this world, it's just us, you know it's not the same as it was".[14] The album was released on 20 May 2022 through Erskine and Columbia.[15]

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".[16]

On 26 May 2022, The Late Late Show with James Corden premiered a segment where Styles and James Corden filmed a music video for the song "Daylight" (the music video was directed by the latter), having visited an apartment belonging to some fans to do so. Both the music video and the segment were released on the show's YouTube channel on 28 May 2022.[17][18][19][20]

Singles

"As It Was", was released as the lead single on 1 April 2022,[21] after previously being announced on 28 March 2022.[22] "As It Was" debuted atop the UK and US charts, becoming his second solo number one single in both countries.[23][24]

Album leak

A month before the album's release, Harry's House was reportedly leaked to Twitter in its entirety on April 20, 2022.[25] The rumours of the album's leak were met with division in Harry Styles' fanbase; some fans were angry at the leak, calling it disrespectful to the effort Harry put into the album, and pleaded for people to not listen to the leaks.[26] However, there were also some fans that supported the leak, citing a Digital Spy interview with Harry Styles in 2013, when the One Direction album Midnight Memories leaked a week prior to its planned release, in which Harry said "If there was an album I liked and I could listen to it a week before, I probably would."[27][28] While Harry Styles did not comment on the leak rumours, Sony (who owns Columbia Records), stated on Twitter "PSA: friends don’t let friends listen to Harry’s House before May 20",[29] which has since been deleted, possibly as it could have attracted more attention to the album leaks.[30]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 83/100[31]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[32]
American Songwriter 4.5/5 stars[33]
DIY 4/5 stars[34]
Entertainment Weekly A−[35]
The Guardian 4/5 stars[36]
The Independent 4/5 stars[37]
The Line of Best Fit 7/10[38]
NME 4/5 stars[39]
Pitchfork 7.2/10[40]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[11]

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.[31]

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that the album "ticks a lot of the right boxes and has abundant charm, which makes it a perfect reflection of the pop star who made it".[36] Reviewing the album for DIY, Emma Swann felt that while Styles alternately spends time "exploring vivid lyrical micro-vignettes" and then "obfuscating" the narrative on the album, he is "also not scared of being secondary to the song; a lesson it's taken many others far longer to learn".[34] Neil Z. Yeung from AllMusic stated that "Harry's House is what happens when Styles steps out of the spotlight to live his life. And despite the fact that there's nothing as immortal as "Watermelon Sugar" to be found, this album, as a whole, has solid bones and is sturdy enough to last."[32]

Commercial performance

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.[41] 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 so far.[42]

In the United States, Harry's House debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 521,500 units, consisting of 330,000 album sales and 189,000 streaming units (calculated from the 246.96 million on-demand streams the album's tracks received). It marked Styles' third US number-one album, his biggest debut in the country, and the largest opening week for an album in 2022.[43] It additionally set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales, as it sold 182,000 copies on vinyl in the U.S. That marks the largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991.[44]

Track listing

All songs are produced by Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, except track eight, produced by Harpoon, Johnson and Samuel Witte.

Harry's House track listing
No. Title Length
1. "Music for a Sushi Restaurant"   3:14
2. "Late Night Talking"   2:58
3. "Grapejuice"   3:12
4. "As It Was"   2:47
5. "Daylight"   2:45
6. "Little Freak"   3:23
7. "Matilda"   4:05
8. "Cinema"   4:03
9. "Daydreaming"   3:07
10. "Keep Driving"   2:19
11. "Satellite"   3:37
12. "Boyfriends"   3:12
13. "Love of My Life"   3:11
Total length:
 41:48

Notes

  • "Daydreaming" samples "Ain't We Funkin' Now", written by Louis Johnson, Valerie Johnson, Alex Weir, Quincy Jones and Tom Bahler, and performed by the Brothers Johnson.[45]

Personnel

Musicians

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  • Harry Styles – lead vocals (all tracks), whistles (3), glockenspiel (4, 10), keyboards (11)
  • 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

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  • Randy Merrill – mastering
  • Spike Stent – mixing
  • Jeremy Hatcher – engineering
  • Oli Jacobs – engineering (1, 6, 10)
  • Hal Ritson – engineering (3)
  • Richard Adlam – engineering (3)
  • Sammy Witte – engineering (6, 8)
  • 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

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  • Molly Hawkins – creative director
  • Hanna Moon – photography
  • Harry Lambert – styling
  • Patience Harding – set decoration
  • Bradley Pinkerton – graphic design

Charts

Chart performance for Harry's House
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[46] 1
Australian Albums (ARIA)[47] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[48] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[49] 1
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[50] 1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[51] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[52] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[53] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[54] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[55] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[56] 1
1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[57] 1
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[58] 82
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[59] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[60] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[61] 1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[62] 1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[63] 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[64] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[65] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[66] 1
US Billboard 200[67] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[68] 1

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Harry's House
Region Certification Sales/shipments
United Kingdom (BPI)[69] Gold 100,000

xunspecified figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales/streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Harry's House release history
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various 20 May 2022
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See also

References

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