Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Harry Styles Usurped at Number 1 by BTS, “Kiss-Disco” Album Dropped 77% Second Week to Fewer than 100,000 in Sales

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Harry Styles spent a big week at number 1 last. His new “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” sold 425,000 copies immediately.

But the pop audience is fickle. During its second week, “Kiss” dropped a whopping 77% and sold just 98K copies. The “Aperture” closed.

This was even after Harry’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and his taped-live Netflix special. In the second week he sold only 22,486 actual albums and downloads.

Now, with last night’s release of a new KPop BTS album, Harry has dropped to number 8 on the iTunes the top 100 albums chart. One single, “American Girls,” is number 80. All his other tracks have evaporated.

Harry’s not hurting. His tour including the MSG residency, are selling out. The fans will go see him without hesitation. He puts on a great show! He just needs a hit single from the album.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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