As It Was

"As It Was"
"As It Was"
Single by Harry Styles
from the album Harry's House
Released	1 April 2022
Recorded	2021
Studio	Henson (Hollywood)
Genre	Synth-pop; new wave;
Length	2:47;
Label	Erskine; Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Harry Styles; Thomas Hull; Tyler Johnson;
Producer(s)	Kid Harpoon; Tyler Johnson;
Harry Styles singles chronology
Music video
	"As It Was" on YouTube

"As It Was" is a song by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, released through Erskine and Columbia on 1 April 2022 as the lead single from his third studio album, Harry's House (2022). The song was written by Styles alongside his producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.

"As It Was" was widely acclaimed by music critics and entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming Styles' second solo number-one single, his first being "Sign of the Times" in April 2017. "As It Was" spent ten weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming the longest-running number-one and best-selling single of 2022 in his home country. In the United States, it was his second chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at number one, becoming the longest-running US number one by a UK act and the fourth-longest-running number one in the chart's history.

"As It Was" was the best-selling global single of 2022, earning 2.28 billion subscription streams equivalents globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Outside the UK and US, the song was a huge commercial success and topped the charts in 45 countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, and Norway.