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Harry Styles Opens the Aperture to a New Era with Chart-Topping Triumph Some artists simply transcend. After a three-year hiatus that felt like holding our breath underwater, Harry Styles has resurfaced with Aperture , and the results speak for themselves: a straight-to-number-one debut on the Billboard Hot 100 . Not a slow climb. Not a second-week peak. Immediate cultural dominance . This is Styles' third chart-topper, following Watermelon Sugar and the unstoppable As It Was , which commanded the summit for fifteen weeks back in 2022. But Aperture represents something more audacious than simply adding another trophy to the mantle. At over five minutes long, with a slow-burning electronic pulse that defies every modern pop convention about TikTok-friendly hooks and instant gratification, this is the sound of an artist who knows he doesn't need to play by the rules anymore . The numbers are staggering : 18.2 million streams, 27.1 million radio impressions, and s...