Watermelon Sugar

"Watermelon Sugar"
Single by Harry Styles
from the album Fine Line
Released	18 May 2020 (2020-05-18)
Studio	Real World (Bath, Somerset) RAK (London) The Cave (Nashville) Henson (Hollywood) Harpoon House (Los Angeles)
Genre	Rock funk-pop indie pop
Length	2:53
Label	Erskine Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Harry Styles Mitch Rowland Tyler Johnson Thomas Hull
Producer(s)	Johnson Kid Harpoon
Harry Styles singles chronology
"Falling" (2020) "Watermelon Sugar" (2020) "Golden" (2020)
Music video
"Watermelon Sugar" on YouTube

"Watermelon Sugar" is a song by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles from his second studio album Fine Line (2019), included as the album's second track. Styles wrote the song with Mitch Rowland and the song's producers, Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. They were inspired by the American novel In Watermelon Sugar (1968) by Richard Brautigan. "Watermelon Sugar" is a horn and guitar-driven funk-pop, rock, indie pop song.

Originally released as a promotional single from Fine Line on 16 November 2019, "Watermelon Sugar" was later released as the album's fourth single on 18 May 2020. The song was generally well received by music critics. The single also performed well commercially, peaking within the top ten in more than 20 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the United States, where it became Styles's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[1] It won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, and also won Song of the Year at the 41st Brit Awards the same year.^[2][3]

The music video for "Watermelon Sugar" was released on 18 May 2020, which received many positive reviews. Directed by Bradley & Pablo and filmed in Malibu, California, it features Styles alongside a plethora of people dancing on the beach and eating watermelon. Styles has promoted the single with many live televised performances including on Saturday Night Live, Later... with Jools Holland and Today.