Harry Styles has scored another major milestone as his fourth solo studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 21. The project earned 430,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the week ending March 12, according to data from Luminate.
The impressive opening marks the largest debut week for any album in the past five months and delivers Styles his fourth consecutive No. 1 album. Remarkably, every one of his solo releases has entered the chart at the top spot. His previous chart-toppers include his self-titled debut Harry Styles (2017), Fine Line (2019), and Harry’s House (2022), making Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. another addition to an unbroken streak of chart-leading projects.
With this achievement, Styles becomes only the second solo male artist in history to see his first four charting albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The first was DMX, who launched his first five albums at the summit between 1998 and 2003, including It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, …And Then There Was X, The Great Depression, and Grand Champ. Styles is also the first solo act since Alicia Keys to debut four consecutive albums at No. 1, following her run from 2001 through 2007 with Songs in A Minor, The Diary of Alicia Keys, Unplugged, and As I Am.
The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums in the United States each week using a multi-metric system based on equivalent album units. These units combine traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). One unit equals either one album sold, ten individual tracks purchased from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported streams or 1,000 paid subscription streams of its songs.
Of the album’s 430,000 units in its debut week, the majority came from 291,000 pure album sales, giving Styles another No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. Streaming activity also played a significant role, contributing 138,500 SEA units, which translates to 140.31 million on-demand streams of the album’s 12 tracks and a No. 1 debut on the Top Streaming Albums chart. Track sales accounted for roughly 500 TEA units.
The release also posts one of the year’s most significant openings. The last album to post a larger debut was Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, which arrived with 4.002 million units on the October 18, 2025 chart. Among male solo artists, Styles records the biggest week since Morgan Wallen launched I’m the Problem with 493,000 units in May 2025.
Strong physical sales played a major role in the album’s performance. The release was offered in multiple collectible formats, including seven vinyl editions, six CD versions, and a cassette, along with a standard digital download. Some deluxe boxed sets included branded merchandise alongside the physical album.
Vinyl purchases alone accounted for 186,000 copies, giving Styles the largest vinyl sales week ever recorded for a male artist in the modern tracking era, which began in 1991. The achievement surpasses his previous record set with Harry’s House, which sold 182,000 vinyl copies in its first week. Overall, the new album delivers the seventh-largest vinyl sales week of the modern era, with the six bigger weeks all belonging to Taylor Swift releases.
The album was introduced by the single “Aperture,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated February 7, marking Styles’ third career Hot 100 leader. The song has also reached the top 10 on both the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts and opened at No. 1 on the overall Streaming Songs chart.
Elsewhere on the latest Billboard 200, Bruno Mars’ The Romantic slips one position to No. 2 with 80,000 equivalent album units in its second week. Morgan Wallen holds steady at No. 3 with I’m the Problem (76,000 units), while Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS moves from No. 2 to No. 4 with 67,000 units. Don Toliver rounds out the top five as OCTANE lands at No. 5 with 60,000 units.
Further down the chart, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving holds at No. 6 with 58,000 units. Four former chart-toppers complete the top ten: Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 at No. 7, Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl at No. 8, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time at No. 9, and SZA’s SOS returning to the top ten at No. 10.