#1 Billboard top 200 albums

May
23

English singer and songwriter Harry Styles released the album titled Harry Styles through Columbia Records and Styles’ own label, Erskine Records. As Billboard notes, One Direction now joins an exclusive club of groups that have yielded Number One albums for multiple members who went solo, with Styles and Malik joining the Beatles’ John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney as well as Destiny’s Child Beyonce and LeToya Luckett. Critics praise Styles turning back to a boy band pop and going radio-friendy rock.