Harry Styles' new album first week sales projected to be HUGE!

[psyquacker]

US early preview (via @HITSDD): @Harry_Styles' 'Fine Line' headed for #1 with 420-440k units
- chart data (@chartdata) December 14, 2019

He has a tour bundle, which helped a lot. Mind you, none of the singles he's released were hits  Let's compare this album's first week sales to his peers:

Zayn's last album:

US chart preview: @zaynmalik's 'Icarus

Comments

[bttrsondaughter]

White man getting successful by ripping off other artists. Whatever, he’ll never be Bowie or Freddie or Prince, or whoever the fuck he decides to cosplay next.

Call me when he catches real criticism for saying that he’s waiting to explicitly champion a cause until it directly effects him. If a woman or person of color had said that we would’ve already had ten posts and three “[x celeb] is over” parties on twitter

[tucker]

Idgi

[violet_crumble9]

the bar is underground

[waffletaco]

no saturday night FFA?

[stewie_e]

12 Days of ONTD posts will be your daily FFA until Christmas.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Well I mean him and Zayn were always the 2 most popular members in the band. So solo-wise they were predicted to be the most successful from jump.

Harry obvs being white and pandering helps. But tbf Harry is at least networking and promoting his music/albums whereas Zayn likes making music but doesn't wanna deal with the fame or touring and doesn't promote much either so in that aspect that will affect his sales a lot.