{"id":2636,"date":"2022-04-11T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:25","slug":"harry-styles-as-it-was-launches-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles\u2019 \u2018As It Was\u2019 Launches at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Styles scores his second Hot 100 leader, after &#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; in 2020. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/harry-styles\/\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2018 \u201cAs It Was\u201d soars in at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track opens as Styles\u2019 second Hot 100 leader, and his first to debut at No. 1, after \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d rose to the top for a week in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d is also the first song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 by any act in 2022, and bows with the biggest streaming week tallied this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated April 16, 2022) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0Tuesday (April 12). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5v3kku4y6Q\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/harry-styles-as-it-was-1235053318\/\">released<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. ET on Erskine\/Columbia Records. It\u2019s the first single from Styles\u2019 third album,&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>, due May 20. His eponymous first LP debuted atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart in June 2017 and&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;likewise launched at No. 1 in December 2019 and led for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d becomes the 1,135th No. 1 in the Hot 100\u2019s 63-year history, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/426225\/billboard-hot-100-number-1-song-debuts\/\">59th to enter on top<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Streams, airplay, &amp; sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cAs It Was\u201d debuts with 43.8 million streams, 27.2 million radio airplay audience impressions and 10,300 downloads sold in the April 1-7 tracking week, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. (On its March 31 release day, the song drew 3 million streams and 1.4 million in radio reach and sold 3,500.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track opens at No. 1 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>, where it\u2019s Styles\u2019 first leader (and first top 10), with the best streaming week tallied in 2022. It lands the biggest frame since Brenda Lee\u2019s chestnut \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u201d topped the Jan. 1 tally (encompassing the Dec. 17-23, 2021, tracking week) with 47.5 million streams. \u201cAs It Was\u201d boasts the most streams for a song in its first full week since Adele\u2019s \u201cEasy on Me\u201d drew 53.9 million in its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story\/\">first full frame<\/a>, as reflected on the Oct. 30, 2021, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d posts the biggest streaming week for a song by a male since Drake\u2019s \u201cWay 2 Sexy,\u201d featuring Future and Young Thug, roared in with 67.3 million (atop the Sept. 18, 2021, ranking).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs It Was\u201d leaps 16-2 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>, marking Styles\u2019 fifth top 10, and debuts at No. 19 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>. On the latter list, the bow is the best since \u201cEasy on Me\u201d made a record arrival at No. 4. It\u2019s the highest for a male in a lead role since Eminem\u2019s \u201cJust Lose It\u201d charged in at No. 17 on the Oct. 9, 2004, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Styles\u2019 second No. 1:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAs It Was\u201d follows \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d as Styles\u2019 second Hot 100 No. 1. The latter completed a 20-week trip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/harry-styles-watermelon-sugar-hot-100\/\">to the top<\/a>\u00a0on the Aug. 15, 2020, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Styles adds his fourth Hot 100 top 10. \u201cSign of the Times\u201d bounded in at No. 4 (his previous best starting point), its peak, in April 2017 and \u201cAdore You\u201d climbed to No. 6 in April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1D solo No. 1s:<\/strong>&nbsp;Thanks to \u201cAs It Was\u201d and \u201cWatermelon Sugar,\u201d Styles is the first member of One Direction to tally multiple Hot 100 No. 1s. He one-ups Zayn, whose \u201cPillowtalk\u201d ruled in its debut week (Feb. 20, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sparking history, Styles and Zayn make One Direction the first group with two members that have debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with solo songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Direction, which Zayn departed in 2015 and is on an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/one-direction-reunion-everything-theyve-said-9358009\/\">indefinite break<\/a>, has charted six Hot 100 top 10s, reaching a No. 2 high with \u201cBest Song Ever\u201d in August 2013. The group has scored four No. 1s on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glass Animals\u2019 \u201cHeat Waves\u201d descends to No. 2 after five weeks atop the Hot 100. The track adds a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (63.3 million, down 2%); dips from its No. 3 high to No. 4 on Streaming Songs (15 million, up 1%); and jumps 24-13, returning to its best rank, on Digital Song Sales (4,100, up 45%, good for the Hot 100\u2019s top Sales Gainer award), after the band was nominated for best new artist at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/vcategory\/grammy-awards\/\">Grammy Awards<\/a>, held April 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back-to-back British No. 1s:<\/strong>&nbsp;Notably, Styles \u2014 born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England \u2014 and Glass Animals, who formed in Oxford, England, combine for the first set of back-to-back Hot 100 No. 1s by British acts in lead roles in over 30 years. They follow George Michael and Elton John, whose \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Sun Go Down Me\u201d topped the Feb. 1, 1992, chart and was supplanted by Right Said Fred\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Too Sexy,\u201d which began a three-week reign on the Feb. 8 survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>British acts at Nos. 1 and 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Meanwhile, British acts add\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/martin-talbot-official-charts-company-ceo-interview-9657111\/\">more highlights<\/a>, holding the top two spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time in over five years, with the last such occurrence also invoking a One Direction member gone solo. On the March 4, 2017, chart, Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cShape of You\u201d notched its fourth of 12 weeks at No. 1 and Zayn\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker),\u201d with Taylor Swift, rose to its No. 2 peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHeat Waves\u201d concurrently rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 29th week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latto\u2019s \u201cBig Energy\u201d holds at its No. 3 Hot 100 high. It becomes her first No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (12,600, down 2%) and surges 6-3 on Radio Songs (58.3 million, up 12%) and 14-6 on Streaming Songs (11 million, up 16%), as it wins the Hot 100\u2019s top Airplay and Streaming Gainer ribbons for a second straight week. The April 1-7 tracking week reflects the first full frame following the March 28 arrival of the song\u2019s remix with Mariah Carey and featuring DJ Khaled. (Carey and DJ Khaled remain not listed on \u201cBig Energy\u201d on the Hot 100, as the remix did not account for the majority of the song\u2019s overall consumption during the tracking week.) Carey sings a portion of her 1995 eight-week No. 1 \u201cFantasy\u201d in the remix; both songs interpolate Tom Tom Club\u2019s classic \u201cGenius of Love,\u201d which hit No. 31 on the Hot 100 in April 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBig Energy\u201d also crowns the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts for a second week each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d slips 2-4 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. As the track has spent all 39 of its weeks on the Hot 100 in the top 10, dating to its entrance at No. 3 on the July 24, 2021, chart, it passes Post Malone\u2019s \u201cCircles\u201d for the longest consecutive run in the top 10 from a debut; \u201cCircles\u201d logged its first 38 weeks on the list in the tier in 2019-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine Dragons and JID\u2019s \u201cEnemy\u201d keeps at its No. 5 Hot 100 high; Kodak Black\u2019s \u201cSuper Gremlin\u201d drops 4-6 after reaching No. 3; and Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cGhost\u201d retreats 6-7 after hitting No. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doja Cat\u2019s \u201cWoman\u201d rises 10-8 for a new Hot 100 best. It leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a sixth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, GAYLE\u2019s \u201cabcdefu\u201d falls 7-9, after reaching No. 3, and Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cThats What I Want\u201d backtracks 9-10, after hitting No. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated April 16), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (April 12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2636\" data-postid=\"2636\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2636 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Styles scores his second Hot 100 leader, after &#8220;Watermelon Sugar&#8221; in 2020. 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