Harry Styles career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition The X Factor. Following his elimination, he was brought back to join the boy band One Direction, who went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles released his self-titled debut solo album in 2017. It debuted at number one in the UK and the US and was one of the world’s top-ten best-selling albums of the year, while its lead single, “Sign of the Times”, topped the UK Singles Chart. Styles’ second album, Fine Line (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest ever first-week sales by an English male artist, and was the most recent album to be included in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” in 2020. Its fourth single, “Watermelon Sugar”, topped the US Billboard Hot 100. Featuring the chart-topping single “As It Was”, Styles’ third album, Harry’s House (2022), was widely acclaimed and broke several records. Styles has received several accolades, including two Brit Awards, a Grammy Award and an American Music Award. Styles made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 film Dunkirk. Aside from music and acting, he is known for his flamboyant fashion. He is the first man to appear solo on the cover of Vogue.
