FINE LINE BY HARRY STYLES DESERVES A GRAMMY: A THREAD

1.- THE ALBUM:
Fine line is the sophomore studio album by Harry Styles, it was released on december 13, 2019. It has 12 tracks divided on 4 sides

SIDE A: GOLDEN, WATERMELON SUGAR, ADORE YOU, LIGHTS UP.
this side is about the first stages of love, where everything is bright and happy

SIDE B: CHERRY, FALLING, TO BE SO LONELY, SHE.
this side is about when love fades away and you feel the pain that it brings, harry sings about feeling empty, hurt and lonely

SIDE C: SUNFLOWER VOL 6., CANYON MOON, TREAT PEOPLE WITH KINDNESS
this side is about healing, feeling happy again, befriending yourself and embracing what you are

SIDE D: FINE LINE
the title track. this song is about hitting rock bottom and feeling pain in the deepest form, but also healing, overcoming that pain and understanding that no matter how bad things are, we’ll be alright

2.- THE SINGLES:
since the release of lights up fine line has had a big impact on the charts, lights up managed to debut on the #17 of the billboard hot 100 and the official music video had 8.8m views on its first 24 hours

adore you, the second single and harry’s biggest song to date, has had an impeccable chart run since its release, not leaving the top 15 for several months and peaking at #6 for 2 weeks, it’s one of the songs with more stability this year

falling managed to peak at #7 of the itunes chart withouth even being a single yet, it peaked at #15 on the uk official charts and the music video debuted with 5m views

watermelon sugar, the latest single, is currently skyrocketing on the charts besides being released 7 months ago, the official music video debuted with 10m views making it harry’s best youtube debut, it is expected to be the song of the summer

3.- THE SALES:
Fine Line debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 478,000 units (393,000 in pure sales). Becoming his second #1 album and selling the double that his debut album did. It marked the biggest week for a pop album by a male artist in over four years.

some of fine line’s achievements

here’s a billboard article with all of fine line’s achievements https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8546971/harry-styles-fine-line-album-no-1-billboard-200-chart

fine line has had a prefect chart run since its release, not leaving the top 20 of the billboard charts for 6 months and mantaining a huge stability, there hasn’t been an album released on the last 6 months that has been able to sell as much as fine line did on its first week

4.- THE CRITIC REVIES:
based on 17 critic reviews, fine line debuted with a metascore of 76 on metracritic. it’s harry’s highest metascore to date

many important sites catalogated the album as straightforward, catchy and new vision for pop/rock

stevie nicks called fine line harry’s “rumors”, this is one of the best compliments in the music industry

5.- THE PREDICTIONS:
harry is one of the strongest contendants for the 2021 grammy’s and many people and sites affirm that he has the nomination on his pocket, either for fine line or adore you

billboard

forbes

golden derby

variety

6.- IN CONLUSION:
harry made history with fine line and continues to do so with the impeccable chart run and amazing numbers that the album and singles are having, with this album he was able to make a name for himself in the industry and prove that he has what it takes