Five years after, he's still breaking records.
Harry Styles achieved a major milestone for his self-titled album "Harry Styles" released last May 2017.
The Recording Industry Association of American has recently certified the last song from his 2017 album, "Ever Since New York", a Gold (sales equivalence of 500,000 units), along with his track, "Canyon Moon" from "Fine Line".
The RIAA Gold certification of "Ever Since New York" marks Styles' self-titled album as the "First Debut Album by A Male Solo Artist To Have All of its tracks Certified Gold Or Higher By the RIAA".
To date, seven out of the ten tracks of his self-titled album are Gold certified, while "Sweet Creatures", and "Kiwi" are Platinum certified.
His lead single of the album, "Sign Of The Times", was certified Quadruple Platinum as the same album also got a Platinum nod by the same record-certification body.
Aside from the "Harry Styles" tracks, his Grammy-nominated album "Fine Line" is already certified double Platinum.
At the same time, his Grammy-Winning single "Watermelon Sugar" earned a 5x Platinum record, "Adore You" is already a 4x platinum record, and "Falling" a double-platinum certification.
The commercial success of 'Harry Styles'
The former One Direction member, now solo artist, released "Harry Styles", his debut album, last May 2017 through Colombia Records and Erskine Records.
Because of its cultural and commercial success, it landed the Billboard's No. 10 spot at the "50 Best Album of 2017", as "Sign of The Times" placed #428 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" last 2021.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry also regarded "Harry Styles" as the ninth global best-selling album of 2017, with a whopping one million copies sold worldwide.
"Harry Styles" also peaked No. 1 for a week at the US Billboards 200 albums chart last June 2017 and debuted No. 1 on the Official UK Albums chart.
Weeks before the debut album was dropped, Styles announced "Harry Styles: On Tour" held worldwide from the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Billboard reports that tickets for the 2017 shows sold out in seconds across 29 markets. The Philippines' pre-selling of tickets at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila broke British Band Coldplay's record of six minutes by selling out in only 52 seconds.
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