Styles launched the album with a special concert in Manchester, which was filmed and released as a Netflix special on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It helped Kiss All The Time… achieve the biggest opening week of the year, said the Official Charts Company.<\/p>\n
It’s also the biggest opening week for a male solo artist in nine years, since Ed Sheeran’s \u00f7 (Divide) in 2017.<\/p>\n
Styles also topped this week’s singles chart with American Girls, with two further songs in the top five – Aperture at number four and Ready, Steady, Go! at five.<\/p>\n
His success means that British artists have occupied the number one position on the album charts for each of the first 11 weeks of 2026 – the first time this has happened in a decade. <\/p>\n
Styles joins Olivia Dean, Robbie Williams, Louis Tomlinson, Charli XCX, Mumford & Sons and Gorillaz as a recent chart-topper – but the run could be broken by the long-awaited return of K-Pop idols BTS next week.<\/p>\n
“This phenomenal 11-week run is just the latest evidence of what an incredibly exciting time it is for British music right now,” said Dr Jo Twist, head of music industry body the BPI.<\/p>\n
With new releases on the horizon by Raye, Arlo Parks and Jessie Ware, “we can look ahead with a genuine sense of optimism,” she added.<\/p>\n
The news came in the same week that the BPI announced that the UK’s music industry had generated a record \u00a31.57 billion in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Styles launched the album with a special concert in Manchester, which was filmed and released as a Netflix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}