In second place is Ed Sheeran with 2021's biggest song, Bad Habits, which gobbled up 1.18 million chart units throughout 2022, proving Ed's reach is just as dynamic and powerful as ever. It now takes, on average, 1.3 million audio streams to break into the Official Singles Chart Top 40 and a combined 7 million audio and video streams to land a UK Number 1 single. The UK’s audio streaming market has grown to meet this demand - more doubling from 68.1 billion to 159.3 billion audio streams and was last year over 40 times bigger than in 2012 (3.7bn audio streams). The BPI calculates that more than 3 billion audio streams were generated on average every week in 2022, compared to around 1.3 billion each week five years earlier. See Harry Styles' Official Charts history in full here.Ģ022 also continued the growth of streaming as the dominant way UK music fans consume their favourite songs and artists. It's the first time such a clean sweep for British music has happened since the music industry began publishing year-end sales charts more than 50 years ago. Harry leads an all-British takeover of the Top 10 biggest tracks of the year in the UK, marking the first time ever that all ten of the year's most successful singles were released by, or featured, British artists - including Harry, Cat Burns, Scottish DJs LF SYSTEM, Sam Fender, Glass Animals and Kate Bush.

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The synth-pop track became Harry's second UK chart-topper, following 2017's debut single Sign Of The Times.Īs It Was also leads the pack as the most-streamed song of the year, totalling over 180.9 million audio and video streams, and best-selling song physically and digitally with 65,000 copies sold. As It Was also holds the distinction of being the UK's longest-running Number 1 of 2022, managing an epic 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart. The lead single from Harry's third solo album Harry's House shifted 1.57 million chart units since its release in April 2022 to the year-end.

Harry Styles claimed the UK's Official biggest song of 2022 with As It Was, the Official Charts Company can confirm today.

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