Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "HARRY STYLES - KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. (SPOTIFY EXCLUSIVE VIDEO VERSION)"

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Linktree: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠⁠Join The Normandy For Ad-Free NME, Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠⁠The latest Segment of Notorious Mass Effect has Analytic Dreamz analyzing Harry Styles' triumphant return with his fourth solo album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated March 21, 2026, earning 430,000 equivalent album units in its first week (ending March 12).Analytic Dreamz details the massive performance: 291,000 pure sales (including a record-breaking 186,000 vinyl copies—the highest weekly vinyl sales for a male artist in the modern era, surpassing his own Harry’s House mark of 182,000), 138,500 streaming equivalent albums from 140.31 million on-demand streams across its 12 tracks, and minimal track equivalents. This marks the biggest album week in five months, the largest by a solo male since Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (493,000 in May 2025), and Styles' fourth consecutive No. 1 debut—joining him with Alicia Keys as the only solo artists (male or female) to achieve four straight No. 1 bows from debut albums.The album, released March 6, 2026, via Erskine/Columbia and executive produced by Kid Harpoon, draws from post-tour life inspirations with funky basslines and dance-floor energy. Lead single “Aperture” debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100—Styles' third career leader—and topped Streaming Songs while hitting Top 10 on Pop and Adult Pop Airplay.In the UK, it debuted at No. 1 with 183,000 units (career-best opening, surpassing Harry’s House’s 113,000), including 66,000 vinyl sales—the largest physical release of 2026 there. Singles “American Girls” hit No. 1, with “Aperture” at No. 4 and “Ready, Steady, Go!” at No. 5.The rollout featured multiple physical variants (7 vinyls, 6 CDs, cassettes, deluxe boxed sets with merch) to drive sales, plus a 20,000-fan Manchester concert filmed for Netflix.Analytic Dreamz breaks down the Top 10 Billboard 200 that week, including holdovers from Bruno Mars, Morgan Wallen, Bad Bunny, and more, underscoring Styles' dominance in pop.Tune in for an in-depth look at how Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. cements Harry Styles' chart legacy and sets the bar for 2026 pop releases.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Shepard, promise me you'll tell them to subscribe for any free content. Now, of course, in the year of 2026, I'm not saying that it's going to be a very competitive year. I'm just letting you know that if you put up 400,000 units in first week sales, it may not be the biggest debut of 2026. You guys. And of course, the reason why I say that is because that's exactly what Harry Styles did. He just debuted with 424,000 first week sales topping the charts, having a number one album, his fourth solo number one album all the way from 2017. Harry Styles going number one. Fond Line in 2019 going number one. Harry's house of 22 going number one.

And then of course currently Harry Styles kiss all the time disco occasionally is number one. So shout out to him for that. The reason why I say is a very competitive year is because BTS RER rank is about to drop. And you already know what the pre-sate. If the pre-saves is any indication, that album is about to sell 4 to 5 million units first week. Just remember I said that. So anyways, let's get back into Harry Styles. So currently, Harry Styles, I believe, has the biggest debut of 2026.

Because, of course, when you look at, oh, I typed in 2025. Okay, hold up. Let me a second. I had a pause. I was like, hold up. Now, I know the weekend dropped this year. So, anyways, when you get into 2026, Germain currently has the top most,

the top, the highest first week sales as far as 280,000 first week. Don Tolliver with Octane has the second highest with 162,000. Megamoroni has 146,000. Bruno Mars, I guess Bruno Mars will have the third because I don't know why they put it right there. Is it because of projections? I don't know why they put it there. So anyway, the top four is Jay Cole, Don't Oliver,

Megan Maroney, and then Bruno Mars with 180,000 first week. So when you look at it in totality, it seems like, well, not seems like, Harry Stiles, objectively speaking, will have the biggest debut of 2026, of course, before BTS drops. So you know, I had to throw that in there because I just, I'm letting y'all know it's going to be a huge impact when the album comes out. But as far as for the hairy lights, I don't know if that's what you call your fandom, but for the hairy connoisseurs out there, Paul's, I think the main thing I was wanting to get into was, of course, the best performing tracks offer that album. But the main thing I want to do, let me see, the romantic first week. I want to get the actual number because we don't do fake news over here, you know what I'm saying?

Okay, so yeah, Bruno Mars, the Romantic did 186. thousand first week so technically they'll put it at number two so j cole was number one with 280,000 uh bruno marrs is number two with 186,000 uh don't tolliver was number three with 162,000 and of course mega maroney was number four where uh was she number four and five i totally lost count basically uh and then it was megamaroni with 146 thousand and of course harry styles is topping them all with 424,000 first week so shout out to him with that the reason why we're getting into numbers for specific album because I do have the future chart predictions especially slated for March 28th but then I come to realize you guys there was only two tracks in the top 20 from Harry's album

I was like oh that that's not the Harry I know you know what I'm saying pause again I think what Harry styles the actual musical um impact will last longer than one week because of course when I well well it's more than one week but when you look at the future tri analytics slated for March 28th and you come to realize not only is the two tracks in the top 40 very surprising but then you look at the future chart predictions for March 21st and he has a plethora of tracks on here so just in total just to let you know because I don't think this is the longest album ever and I'm gonna get into my personal review in a second because you know your boy takes his job seriously and guess what I listened to the whole album and I had a wonderful time

Um, the album is 12 tracks, 42 minutes and length. And the main thing I wanted to do was go through all the tracks that charted. So future chart predictions later for March 21st, you have American Girls, which is the best performing track off of the album. By far, mind you, it's not even close. Set to come in number four as far as the most played track in the world. Ready, Steady Go is the second best performing track off of the album, set to be the 15th most played track in the world.

Tastes back is set to be. the 16th most play track in the world coming up roses said to be the 17th pop said to be the 20th are you listening yet set to be the 23rd dance no more said to be the 25th the waiting game said to be the 27th season 2 weight loss when the world said to be the 29th carlos song set to be the 35th paint by numbers said to be the 40th and i think that's it ladies and gentlemen yeah that's it so those are all the tracks that are charting or set the chart from the album um kiss occasionally that's what i'm calling it now because uh that that name is beyond long so anyways um so out of the 12 tracks we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven so only 11 tracks on here i wonder which one

is missing let me look at the track list so if you look at paint by numbers pop was pop on here Pop was on here. Taste back. What was it? Huh. I wonder what track was missing. Was it aperture? I think it's because the aperture's already on here.

Let me see. I actually don't know which track is missing. Let me recount one more time just to make sure. Okay, so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. There is 11. What in the world? I don't know what track is left off.

It is Aperture. Oh, I'm tripping. You guys. See, that's the problem. Because Aperture came out before the album, so it wasn't slated as new. So anyways, all 12 tracks are charting. I just gave you the entire list as far as the better performing tracks off of the album. I'll be interested to see what do y'all think?

No, not what do y'all think? What is your favorite track off of the album if you've listened to it? And of course, you already know we got to dive into more of the analytics because you're probably thinking to yourself. If this is the best debut of 2026, then how? many physical copies did he sell? And guess what? That's a phenomenal question.

So anyways, when it comes to the $424,000 as far as first week sales, looking at the physical unit specifically, it gets very interesting, y'all. Because the pure sales is $291,000. 291,000.

Now I'm not saying there's Shepherd. basically that's a lot that's a lot for physical copies i'm not going to lie to you and then you realize why that's a lot because uh harry styles went the taylor swift approach now i know taylor swift did not invent vinals before the hairy the hairy lights come after me basically the reason why i say that is because taylor swift sold four million plus with the life of a show girl and i forget how many physical copies she saw i think it was like 2 million physical, yeah, 2.7 pure copies in the U.S.

Actually insane, right? All the workers at the targets, the best buys, whatever, wherever you buy your physical copies, they'll probably think it to themselves, do they not know that all of these different variations have the same 12 songs? Shepard. All right, my fault.

So anyways, obviously, the hairy lights went through the same situation, as it was seven vinyl variants, including a box set with LP plus merchandise. So, you know, a page out of Jack Quees-Webster's book, you could have got some socks, some hoodies, some shirts. You get to, you know what I'm saying? But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip-hop.

Like, what's going on? You all right know Nikitania Mirage wasn't having any of that. So anyways, getting back into the variants, because there's seven vinyl variants, there's six CD variants, and same, including four deluxe box sets. there's one cassette version where in the world who got a

but who got a concept play hey man I ain't gonna shame you man you listen to music the way the way you want bro um standard digital download let me see

okay we already know they was gonna have that and then of course once again all these versions mind you they have the same 12 songs but hey guess what you guys if you want to keep wasting your money if you want to keep wasting your money

on multiple vinyl multiple variants they got the same 12 tracks I ain't mad at it you know what I'm saying somebody got to do it because you know these artists out here just straight up bamboozling their fans I just can't I just can't call it I mean it's the biggest scam since Ocean 11 I'm not going to lie to you and I don't want to call it a scam

because both of those albums are immaculent the life of a show girl um kiss occasionally both of these albums from Taylor Swift and Harry Stousel is Immaculing but multiple vinyl's I mean hey you're a super fan ain't you I guess it's why so anyways When it comes to the physical copies, I think that may play into why

some of the tracks will not be charting in the future because when BTS Rory Ring drops, a lot of their tracks is going to push tracks outside of the top 100. But looking at future chart predictions for March 21st, all of the tracks are above the 41st mark

as far as the 41st most played track. Like from there above, all the way to number one, all the tracks from the album, is in the top 40. So whenever I look at future chart predictions for March 28th and then I only see American girls in Aperture, I'm very perplexed. I'm like, how in the world does that work? So I'm interested to see how that plays out. As of right now, objectively, the only track on the charts from Harry Stiles is Aperture, which is the 29th most played track in the world.

Mind you, I have future chart analytics. It's not available yet. So I'm giving you the projections of where these songs are going to be and how they're performing. So as of right now, Harry Styles does have the best performing album with Kiss All the Time Discode occasionally occasionally selling $424,000 first week. But then you come to the singles as of right now. Aperture is the only one on the charts

because that's the only update they've given us. It's aperture is the 29th most play track in the world. And that's why I tell you all the future chart analytics because, of course, you know, you boy got the analytics. you know what I'm saying? You know what I got that in the list? Not gonna lie to you. So um what else? It was something else I was thinking into. So when you look at Morgan Wallin's album, I'm the problem. A lot of people are gauging the trajectory of that album comparing it to this and even though this man did say the hard

ER, I have to come to his defense. You guys. As Morgan Wallin, I don't know if y'all y'all been paying attention. This man still has a third most play album in the world. I mean goodness gracious. I know that ain't who I think of it is. I mean, hold on. Now I'm I look it up. Like comparing Harry Stout's album to Morgan Wallet, like I understand. I understand a lot of people may be upset in me coming to Morgan Wallen's defense, but objectively speaking, Morgan Wallen's album, I'm the Problem, came out May 16th, 2025. Ladies and gentlemen, it is March 16th, 2026, and it's still the third most played

album in the world. Now, I'm not going to clap it up for that because he said the heart of you are, but I just got to let you all know that I keep it eight more than 92 because comparing this album, of that, it's going to have to prove itself before we put it on the level of a Morgan Wallet I'm the Problem type album. But, you know, very high prades from other conglomerates out there, you know, trying to gauge their trajectory and things of that nature. So when you look at Harry Stiles, I believe his first week sales, he's usually in this range. Or is it the biggest? Yeah, no, it's usually in this range. Because Fine Line in 2019, the 478,000 first week went number one.

Harry's thousand, 2017 did 230,000 first week. That went number one. Harry's house in 2022 did, oh, goodness, 521,000 first week. That went number one, a career high, of course. And then a little hiatus,

and then kids all the time disco occasionally. And this year, of course, 2026, did 104, I said 100, did 400,000, first week, that, of course, landing him another. they're number one but well below harry's house so as far as from harry's perspective i'm not going to

say him going or trying to attempt the acting career hurt him because a lot of artists do it and they come back and they sell solid you know i'm not going to say they they i'm not going to lie to you if you go the acting route i'm just going to assume the prime is behind you like the the prime numbers is behind you i don't know one artist that went to go act came back and did better numbers than he ever did in the music field i think i don't know what it is about it but it's like once you go to that acting route your prime numbers are behind you it's nothing wrong with that you could keep the consistent sales like ariana does like uh childish gambino does but when you look at the actual prime of artists statistically speaking whenever they go to acting route they never really

surpass the numbers um as far as first week sales or just overall sales wise and that's just me you know paying attention to the field. So all I'm saying, you know, even saying that when it comes to Harry Styles is 424,000 first week is not normal by any stretch of their imagination the best believe we're comparing Harry

Styles to himself. To put in a perspective, the highest hip-hop debut before a certain someone dropped. Is it okay? I got my dope on me? But that's besides the point. Currently, the highest hip-hop debut is from Germain with 280,000 sales first week. So now,

when you compare Harry Styles to himself, yes, it may be a regression of some sort, objectively speaking. Before $4,000,000 first week going number one is still a phenomenal accomplishment. And of course, I'm just basically judging him compared to his last albums because that's where we're at. We're at a point where if you're a superstar friend in this game long enough, there's nobody for us to compare you to except yourself, except your past self. So Carrestow still did phenomenal. He'll probably end up in the top three as far as biggest debuts of 2026. Like I keep saying, BTS R.R. Ring is going to have the most impactful album for the year of 2026 unless Taylor Swift drops.

So getting back into the overall analytics of this album, I believe because of the way it's selling right now, the main way to keep it up in the top five as far as most consumed albums is to go on tour. and I believe, I think Harry is on tour right now. I believe he's on tour. Maybe he's not. Let me see. So when you look at,

he filmed the Netflix special. What was that? Let me see. Album released and then filmed the Netflix special. Oh, he did a Manchester concert. That's why I thought he was on. I was like, I swear I saw him in a live performance. Yeah, so it was actually on his Instagram,

analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. So yeah, right now I have a hand performing in Manchester, and these are all the different photos from, you know, his live performance. So, you know, he's basically giving y'all a little rendition before he comes out on stage as far as his tour. So, or no, it comes out more on tour as far as different cities and arenas and things that nature, giving you y'all a little taste of it in Manchester, you know what I'm saying? So with that being said, the main thing I was going to touch on, was Harry Stiles just immacantly

affecting the masses. Like the way he's coming at it as far as the tour, as far as the album, as far as the marketing promotion material before the album came out. I mean, look at this right here. Let me see.

So look at this post right here. I mean, these are just some pretty interesting shots on showcasing the musical creation process. And I think fans love this more than anything. I mean, what in the world is he cooking on right now? But besides the point. Um, I think fans love to see the behind the scenes process of making music. Cause even though I would advise a lot of up-and-coming artists to do it,

because, you know, you never want to see them. You never want the consumers to, hold up, is that? This may be a pause, but I do not care. Is this man, somebody bit, somebody bite his leg? Oh, that's a tattoo. Look, I was looking at this right here. Yeah, that's a huge pause. You guys.

I ain't a lot to you. I need help. See, that's the problem. The whole time, obviously, I was thinking it was edited. I was like, who bitch? his leg. Anyways, from afar, it looks crazy. I lost my whole train of thought. Oh, yeah. So if you're up and coming artists, basically, I would not showcase the musical creation process until after they heard the final version.

Because, you know, you never want to see them. If you're upcoming, it couldn't mess with you as far as letting people see your process of creating something that's great. Because in the middle of that creation, it's not so great. And they'll be like, man, I don't like that. And then guess what? Now you're to change the whole meal and now won't end up great in the final version just because you're listening to the bystander that's never been in your field so um basically it goes back to too many cooks in the kitchen just you know don't let people see the creation until after they heard the final version so after we heard the album i love to see this type of behind the scenes you know the way he's going about it so yeah so

basically his marketing promotion is pretty solid and you know that's let alone the s&L let alone the netflix let alone the manchester as you can tell his his marketing strategy was immaculent to the point where he had the best-selling album as of right now in 2026 with 424,000 units in the first week. Hold on now. I totally forgot to give y'all my favorite tracks off of the album. You know what I mean? That's on me. You know what I'm saying? That's all me, man.

No, I'm just playing. Let's get back into it. So when it comes to the actual tracks that I preferred off of Harry Styles album, because I really enjoyed the whole thing. So this is going to be more of my standout tracks off of the album. So I enjoyed the whole album. But when it comes to my personal standouts, I really enjoyed dance no more. I don't know why,

but as far as just the vibe and of course what could happen with him performing that track live, I just think that's my favorite track off of the album because, you know, when I go into certain albums, you know, I have different expectations. With Harry Styles, I didn't know what to expect. and it kind of sounded like a weekend type of project to me as far as the different melodies, the vocals, things of that nature.

So I really enjoyed it. So Dance No More for me fit what I was wanting from that type of sound from Harry. So I think Dance No More is, yeah, that's personally my favorite track off of the album. I like, are you listening yet? That's another standout for me. And of course, Aperture in American Girls. So those are my favorite four tracks off of the album. But the whole album is fired from front to back.

I think, of course, when you listen to it, you're going to have your own personal favorites. But of course, I wanted to tell y'all my personal, because I told you all I was going to do that. I did listen to this album a plethora of times, probably like two or three times. So now, given my update, given the update as far as my favorite tracks off of the album,

it's not like discrediting the other tracks. That's the word I'm looking for. so yeah aperture american girls are you listening yet and dance no more are my favorite tracks off of the album so with that being said click my link sure in my bio let me know in one of my social medias what do you think about harry stow's latest album kiss all the time disco occasionally going number one selling four hundred twenty four thousand units first week and of course if you're going to watch him live which track would you want him to perform the most and why