Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ Was U.K.’s Biggest Single In 2022 – Billboard

In the 12 months that noticed King Charles ascend the throne, it was Harry Styles who was topped on the U.Okay. charts.

The pop famous person guidelines 2022’s year-end singles and albums charts, with “As It Was” and its mother or father, Harry’s House, respectively, based on new information printed by the Official Charts Company.

Released in April 2022, “As It Was” reigned over the Official U.Okay. Singles Chart for 10 weeks, and went on to shift 1.57 million mixed items, the OCC reviews.

“As It Was” additionally completed the 12 months because the most-streamed tune within the U.Okay., with greater than 180.9 million audio and video streams, and it was the best-seller throughout mixed bodily and digital codecs, raking-in 65,000 items.

The former One Direction singer leads an all-British sweep of the highest 10 tracks of 2022 within the U.Okay. — a primary within the 50-plus 12 months historical past of the year-end singles chart.

Coming in at No. 2 on the Official Top 40 Biggest Singles of 2022 is Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits,” with 1.18 million chart items. “Bad Habits” was the No. 1 tune within the U.Okay. in 2021.

Afrobeats star Fireboy DML lands at No. 3 with “Peru” (that includes Sheeran), BRITs Rising Star nominee Cat Burns is at No. 4 with “Go,” and Sheeran completes the highest 5 with “Shivers.”

2022 was a outstanding 12 months for Kate Bush and her 1985 tune “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” which roared off the again of Netflix’ Stranger Things, wherein is was synced to a number of pivotal moments. The tune was embraced a brand new technology because it lastly reached No. 1, some 37 years after its launch. As it accomplished the trail to the highest, Bush broke a trio of information, together with the longest journey a single to succeed in No. 1 within the U.Okay.

Also, notes the OCC, LadBaby bagged the fastest-selling single in its first week primarily based on pure gross sales, “Food Aid,” which pulled-in greater than 59,000 first-week gross sales. The charity fund-raising single was the most-downloaded tune of the 12 months, and a record-breaker, because it delivered the husband-and-wife Hoyle duo a fifth consecutive Christmas No. 1.

The OCC’s year-end reviews are printed because the BPI broadcasts 159 billion music tracks have been streamed within the U.Okay. final 12 months, a brand new document which represents a 8.2% acquire on 2021, and greater than double the quantity from 5 years in the past.

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