Harry Styles is the current king of pop. And like decades of pop royalty before him, Styles is proving his worth by selling a lot of records… on vinyl.
On May 20, Styles dropped Harry’s House, which debuted at number one in the US. (“As It Was,” the album’s lead single, came out on April 1 and has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks.) Harry’s House has already sold 377,000 copies in the US, including 219,000 vinyl records—about 58% of US sales—according to the music data firm Luminate, originally Nielsen Soundscan. That includes the biggest first week for a vinyl record since Soundscan started counting in 1991.
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