{"id":674978,"date":"2026-07-05T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:12:08","slug":"harry-styles-beats-taylor-swifts-and-coldplays-wembley-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674978\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles beats Taylor Swift&#8217;s and Coldplay&#8217;s Wembley records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Styles has wrapped up his record-breaking residency at Wembley Stadium after performing 12 sold-out shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stint tops records previously set by Coldplay and Taylor Swift, with the singer now holding the record for most concerts performed at the venue by any artist during a single year or a solo artist during one concert run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Styles, 32, kicked off the London leg of his Together, Together tour on 12 June, with the final show taking place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his final gig, he paid tribute to his former One Direction bandmates as being &#8220;a massive part of this journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Styles&#8217; latest tour was originally billed for six nights at Wembley but was extended due to high demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His record surpasses Coldplay&#8217;s 10-night run last summer, as well as Swift&#8217;s eight nights at the stadium in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking during the final gig on Saturday &#8211; attended by about 80,000 people &#8211; Styles paused to reflect on his time with boyband One Direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be on this stage if it wasn&#8217;t for four friends of mine that were a massive part of this journey,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanna thank Niall, Louis, Zayn and my dear friend Liam for these nights and everything that I learned in this time, the friendship, everything\u2026 none of this would be possible, I wouldn&#8217;t be here without you, thank you so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One Direction formed in 2010 on the TV talent show The X Factor and went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Bandmate Liam Payne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1wnxp970pdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died aged 31 in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles has wrapped up his record-breaking residency at Wembley Stadium after performing 12 sold-out shows. The stint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674978","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\/674978","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=674978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}