Harry Styles has outperformed even his own incredible sales record with new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally (Columbia).

The UK star’s fourth studio album has debuted at No.1 with 183,045 units – more than the rest of the Top 30 combined. Styles’ third chart-topping album’s weekly total was made up of 138,229 physical units, 2,448 downloads and 42,368 sales-equivalent streams, according to the Official Charts Company.

Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally is the first album to top 100,000 weekly sales since Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl opened with 423,444 units in October 2025.

Styles’ new record has outperformed the first-week numbers of previous album Harry’s House by 60.8%. Harry’s House opened with 113,812 units on release in 2022.

With a new entry for American Girls at No.1 (64,056 units), Styles also secured the chart double – again, the first time any artist has done that since Swift. American Girls is his fourth No.1 single following chart-topping results for Sign Of The Times (2017), As It Was (2022) and Aperture (2026).

In addition, former No.1 Aperture rebounded 10-4 with consumption up 87.3% week-on-week and Ready, Steady, Go! debuted at No.5. But for chart rules limiting primary artists to three entries, Harry Styles would have had six singles in the Top 10 and 11 in the Top 20. 

The huge result means that Sony Music UK and Columbia top the Top 75 market share rankings across singles and albums. Furthermore, Sony Music and Columbia are out in front on the artist album sales market shares for the whole market with, respectively, a 43.6% and 37.7% share of pure sales in the past seven days.

Key chart results for Harry Styles:

– The biggest opening week for a male solo artist in nine years, since Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) in 2017.  

– The highest first week sale for a British act since Coldplay’s Moon Music debuted at No.1 with 236,796 units in October 2024.

– The biggest weekly sale for any artist in 2026 and since Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl in October 2025.

– As revealed in Alan Jones’ charts analysis, the second highest weekly vinyl sale (66,391 units) achieved by any album this century, trailing only the 125,592 copies that The Life Of A Showgirl racked up on its debut last year.

– It’s also a big jump from the opening personal best for Styles’ vinyl sales of 36,000 for Harry’s House in 2022. Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally is already the biggest selling vinyl release so far in 2026.

– A second chart double following the same result in 2022 with As It Was and Harry’s House, which re-entered the chart this week at No.31 with consumption up 35.6% week-on-week. Meanwhile, Fine Line surged 80-44 with consumption up 24.1% week-on-week.

BRITISH ARTISTS DOMINATE ALBUMS  

As reported by Music Week, British talent has held sway at the top of the albums chart for the entirety of 2026.

That has now continued with Harry Styles, meaning that the first opening 11 weeks of 2026 has seen the No.1 position on the albums chart occupied solely by British artists – the first time this has happened in a decade. 

Styles has joined Olivia Dean (five weeks), Robbie Williams, Louis Tomlinson, Charli XCX, Mumford & Sons and Gorillaz in a run of domestic No.1 success.

The last time UK acts achieved such a chart-topping run of form was 2016, with an unbroken 15-week stint of British talent. 

Martin Talbot, CEO, Official Charts Company, said: “What a fantastic week for Harry Styles and British music – the UK’s favourite pop star of the moment, helping set a new marker for the decade in completing 11 weeks of British acts as albums No.1. There is a plenty of talk of the UK’s place in the music stratosphere being under threat, but the achievements of Olivia Dean, Robbie Williams, Louis Tomlinson, Charli XCX, Mumford & Sons, Gorillaz and now Harry are showing that British talent can more than hold its own.” 

This phenomenal 11-week run of No.1s by British artists is just the latest evidence of what an incredibly exciting time it is for British music right now

Dr Jo Twist

Dr Jo Twist OBE, CEO, BPI, said: “This phenomenal 11-week run of No.1s by British artists in the official albums chart is just the latest evidence of what an incredibly exciting time it is for British music right now, coming hot on the heels of a triumphant BRIT Awards and major UK successes at the Grammys.   

“2026’s chart successes from UK artists reflect long term-record label support across many stages of artist development, ranging from established superstar acts like Robbie Williams and recent global breakthroughs led by Olivia Dean, to such contemporary icons as Harry Styles. With further major releases and music moments to come in 2026, we can look ahead with a genuine sense of optimism.” 

This comes off the back of the BPI’s report this week that UK recorded music revenue, which combines income from streaming, physical music, digital downloads, sync and public performances from British artists, has risen to a new high of £1.57bn, marking an 11th consecutive year of growth.

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