Harry Styles has accomplished a lot this year. The most successful former member of beloved pop group One Direction, his latest solo effort, ¡°Harry¡¯s House,¡± topped charts with some of the strongest first-week sales of 2022. The 28-year-old singer also headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this past April.

Perhaps less immediate but just as impressive, he has helped cement Haruomi Hosono¡¯s status as the most revered Japanese musician among Western music fans.

¡°It was named after Hosono, he had an album in the ¡®70s called ¡°Hosono House,¡± Styles told Apple Music¡¯s Zane Lowe in an about ¡°Harry¡¯s House.¡± ¡°I spent that little chunk in Japan and heard that record, and I was like, ¡®I love that.¡¯¡± This was presumably on the same trip where he spent time in Nakameguro .