other stats As It Was back in Top 20 Spotify Global, 823 days after release

[More Than A Melody]

It was also streamed 3 MILLION + times on a Sunday and Harry was one of the biggest monthly listeners gainers in the top 25 (he's currently #23), despite not having released music in 2+ years.

 

20 1	As It Was Harry Styles	1	21	823	3,048,083	Less
		Release Date May 20, 2022 First entry date Mar 31, 2022 First entry position 40 Total days on chart 823 Producers Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson Songwriters Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson, Harry Styles Source Columbia

[tost1]

Somehow he always stays here, I CAN'T STAND IT

[Mordecai]

Who tf is still listening to this?  

[makeme]

Modern classic 

[SleepingTigers]

It's a classic at this point I fear, fine song but definitely got tired of hearing it. And he has better songs. 

[Klein]

You can't deny this is a classic in the making. I wish Daydreaming had received this success though.

[LostInStereo100]

I feel like with the current music landscape, he would absolutely smash hard right now if he released music. 
 

like harder than he did in 2022 which is insane to think about 

[LittleFreak]

Timeless hit I hope he releases new music soon!

[storminthedark]

When you make a modern classic Coming to be the most streamed song of all time

[Flanders]

Hit of the decade so far?

[More Than A Melody]

9 minutes ago, LostInStereo100 said:

I feel like with the current music landscape, he would absolutely smash hard right now if he released music. 
 

like harder than he did in 2022 which is insane to think about 

I didn't think it was possible for him to outpeak himself after 2022, but I do think you're right. The thing is, that's if he released right now. And I don't know where he is in terms of his album. He was with his producer in Rome last week, so he might still be a little ways to go in terms of release.

[Billionaire]

Is this officially bigger than Blinding Lights?

Edited July 1 by Billionaire

[Ian B]

Hit of the decade

[newaespa]

classic

 

give us that new album now

[UnusualBoy]

A classic, my mom discovered it not long ago and she stans it hard now lol.

[bliaz]

Great song 

[James_Dean]

Now that's what I call a CLASSIC 

[More Than A Melody]

58 minutes ago, Billionaire said:

Is this officially bigger than Blinding Lights?

It spent longer at #1 (15 weeks vs 4 in the US, organically), but less time on Billboard over all (61 weeks vs 90), though that's more circumstantial cause it depends on a lot of different things, like, Blinding Lights exploded during the pandemic and there weren't that many album bombs, which allowed it to stay and not go recurrent for longer. While As It Was was affected by several album bombs in 2023 (after a year of being released). But Blinding Lights wasn't #1 for several weeks very narrowly as well. I'd say in terms of Billboard they were pretty even, even though stats would say differently (and you could make a case for either). As It Was was #2 Year End Charts, but it was released in April, about halfway through the year for Billboard (they start counting in November). Blinding Lights was #1 but it was released November 2019, so it had its entire run to count.

 

Outside of the US, As It Was is slightly bigger, chart-wise. In the UK AIW was #1 for 10 weeks vs 8 weeks for Blinding Lights. It was top 10 for 37 weeks, 22 weeks for Blinding Lights. BL charted total for 147 weeks, which is insane! AIW is currently charting, week 97 (also insane).

 

In terms of certifications, it's kinda hard to tell because Blinding Lights is 2 1/2 years older than AIW, and both were consumed a lot in the years following their release (still are), so they're still racking up certs.

 

In Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain, AIW is slightly behind BL but probably will have similar certs in a similar time.

 

AIW is behind in Germany, Poland, and Sweden, and probably won't catch up on a similar timing. It's not certified in Norway while BL is 8x Plat.

 

It's certified in Switzerland 4x Platinum while BL isn't. It's ahead in Mexico and Brazil. Same certification in France and Greece, meaning it'll probably end up ahead.

 

In the UK AIW it's at 4x but will probably cross 5x very soon. BL is at 7x, I don't think it's close to 8x.

 

In the US, it's apparently almost at RIAA Diamond, but it hasn't been updated since 6x. I think they're waiting to go straight to Diamond (they skipped everything between 2 and 6 already). I think it might be slightly earlier than BL? IDK when BL crossed the number of sales, but it was certified April 2022, so two and a half years since release, while AIW was at 9.5M two years and two months after release.

 

All in all they're pretty head to head in terms of charts and sales. I think AIW will end up edging it with total streams on Spotify. Blinding Lights is technically the biggest song of the 2010s imo, and AIW the biggest song of the 2020s (so far). I'd settle it that way.

[Miley Cyrus]

Is this song still on TTH?

[Rose]

I Wanna Be Yours being #31 is more impressive. It's not even a single. 

 

This is so funny https://kworb.net/spotify/track/5XeFesFbtLpXzIVDNQP22n.html

Edited July 1 by Rose

[LittleFreak]

28 minutes ago, Miley Cyrus said:

Is this song still on TTH?

It's not. 

[More Than A Melody]

46 minutes ago, Miley Cyrus said:

Is this song still on TTH?

It hasn't been un TTH in a veeeeery long time. Like, almost a year.

[More Than A Melody]

1 hour ago, Rose said:

I Wanna Be Yours being #31 is more impressive. It's not even a single. 

 

This is so funny https://kworb.net/spotify/track/5XeFesFbtLpXzIVDNQP22n.html

You seem to be lost

 

Here:

https://atrl.net/forums/forum/3-charts-sales/?do=add

[naval23]

Insane. Especially when you consider "Flowers" smashed a year later and it's ahead nkw

[Ms. Togekiss]

I've seen some Twitter accounts tracking this song's performance and it had a fishy boom in streams a few weeks ago