Harry Styles has reached another major YouTube milestone as the music video for “As It Was” surpasses one billion views. The 2022 single, which opened the “Harry’s House” era, becomes his second video to enter YouTube’s Billion Views Club after “Sign of the Times.” More than four years after its release, the song remains one of the defining hits of his solo career.

Harry Styles has another billion-view video to his name. “As It Was,” the lead single from his third studio album “Harry’s House,” has officially passed one billion views on YouTube, becoming the second music video of his solo career to reach the milestone.

The achievement places the 2022 visual alongside “Sign of the Times,” his debut solo single, which previously crossed the same threshold. Together, the two videos trace two very different points in Styles’ career: the dramatic arrival of his post-One Direction identity in 2017 and the bright, restless pop era that turned “As It Was” into his biggest chart hit five years later.

Directed by Tanu Muino, the “As It Was” video was released alongside the single in March 2022 and quickly became one of the most recognizable visuals of the “Harry’s House” campaign. Styles appears in a red jumpsuit, moving through a series of rotating sets with dancer Mathilde Lin, while the choreography mirrors the emotional push-and-pull running through the song.

The video was never built around a complicated narrative. Its strength came from movement, color and a visual sense of two people repeatedly moving toward and away from one another. That simplicity made it immediately memorable, particularly once the song began dominating radio, streaming platforms and social media.

Four years later, the billion-view mark confirms how long that appeal has lasted.

“As It Was” was already a major commercial moment before its video reached the new milestone. The song spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Styles the longest-running chart-topper of his career and placing it among the relatively small group of songs to remain at the summit for that length of time.

It also spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, showing that its success was not confined to the United States. The combination of pop radio, streaming and an instantly recognizable melody helped the track move well beyond the initial album campaign and remain one of Styles’ most familiar songs long after its release.

The numbers around “As It Was” also say something about the scale of “Harry’s House.” The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and remained there for two weeks, later winning Album of the Year at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

That Grammy win established the project as more than a commercially successful pop record. It became the album that defined Styles’ transition from former boy-band member to one of the biggest solo performers of his generation.

“As It Was” was central to that transformation.

The song arrived at a moment when Styles had already built a successful solo career, but its reach exceeded anything he had released before. Its opening synth line became immediately recognizable, the chorus moved easily between radio and short-form video platforms, and its lyrics carried enough emotional ambiguity to work equally well as an upbeat pop song and a more reflective breakup track.

The visual helped reinforce that balance. Muino’s direction kept the video energetic without turning it into spectacle for its own sake. The rotating platform, synchronized movement and repeated physical distance between Styles and Lin gave the song a visual language that matched its tension without explaining it too literally.

That approach was recognized at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, where “As It Was” received a nomination for Video of the Year. The award ultimately went to Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well: The Short Film,” but the nomination placed Styles’ video among the year’s most prominent pop visuals.

Its path to one billion views has therefore been less about a sudden viral revival and more about continued attention over time.

YouTube milestones often arrive years after the peak of a song’s original chart run. In that sense, one billion views does not simply measure the excitement around a release week. It reflects how often a video remains part of an artist’s catalog once the promotional cycle has ended and audiences have moved on to newer music.

For Styles, “As It Was” has clearly stayed active.

The milestone also comes at a very different point in his career. He is no longer touring “Harry’s House.” His current live era is built around his fourth studio album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” with a schedule that has already taken him through major cities around the world.

After shows in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo and Mexico City, Styles is currently in the middle of a 30-night residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The scale of that residency says a great deal about how far his solo career has developed since “Sign of the Times” first introduced him as an individual artist. Madison Square Garden has become an important venue in his live history, and returning for such an extended run places the current tour firmly at arena-residency level rather than a standard sequence of one- or two-night stops.

Styles has also confirmed that the tour will continue into 2027.

Additional dates announced earlier in September will keep him on the road through August next year, extending the current chapter well beyond the original schedule. At the time of the announcement, he told fans that he did not yet know what would come after the tour, but that he was interested to find out.

That uncertainty gives the current period a slightly different feeling from the “Harry’s House” era. Styles is still working at a huge commercial scale, but he has not presented a detailed long-term plan beyond the existing tour.

Against that backdrop, the billion-view milestone feels almost like a reminder arriving from another version of his career.

In 2022, “As It Was” was introducing a new album. In 2026, it has become catalog material strong enough to keep attracting viewers while Styles promotes an entirely different project.

That distinction matters.

A song reaching one billion views while it is still dominating the charts is one thing. Reaching the same total years later, after another album has arrived and another tour has begun, shows how successfully the track has remained part of the broader public image of the artist.

It also makes “As It Was” only the second Styles solo video to enter YouTube’s Billion Views Club.

“Sign of the Times” reached the milestone first, giving his solo career two videos above the threshold. Other major releases have accumulated hundreds of millions of views, but these two currently sit in a separate category.

Their contrast is striking.

“Sign of the Times” introduced Styles with an expansive rock ballad and a video built around him floating above landscapes and water. “As It Was” arrived five years later with a much tighter pop structure, bright colors and choreography. The two clips look and sound very different, but both have proved durable enough to reach the same YouTube benchmark.

That makes the milestone more than another streaming statistic.

It captures the longevity of two songs from different phases of his career, while Styles continues moving forward with new music and one of the largest touring schedules he has undertaken as a solo artist.

For now, his attention remains on Madison Square Garden and the wider “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” tour. The residency is still in progress, and more stadium dates are scheduled through August 2027.

Meanwhile, “As It Was” continues doing what it has done since 2022: staying in circulation long after the moment that first made it unavoidable.

The video has now passed one billion views. The next chapter belongs to the tour currently unfolding around him.