Harry Styles is so back.

There’s no denying it: The Harry Styles renaissance is in full swing.

Two months since he first teased his return to music, Styles has apparently remained booked and busy, packing his schedule with award present appearances, an album rollout, a world tour, an awards present efficiency, and now, a return to late-night tv. Styles’s newest announcement got here on Monday, when NBC revealed that the Grammy-winning singer would function each host and musical visitor of Saturday Night Live on March 14.

This is not the primary time the 32-year-old pop star has pulled double responsibility on the sketch comedy sequence. Styles final appeared on the SNL stage in November 2019, previous to the discharge of his sophomore solo album, Fine Line. He’s carried out as a musical visitor 4 occasions earlier than that: Three occasions with One Direction and as soon as solo.

But followers will not want to attend till March to see Styles carry out on tv once more. He’ll be attending the 2026 BRIT Awards this weekend, the place he’ll carry out dwell for the primary time since concluding his Love On Tour in July 2023.

After finishing his 22-month-long tour, the Harry’s House pop star felt compelled to take pleasure in life separate from the celebrity — and from the job he’d grown so entwined with. More than two years away from music, Styles is again — and he is able to embark on a model new period. A reset was obligatory not just for his psychological well being however for his artistry, as I have told the Times“In having time away from everything, it’s allowed me to have conversations with myself on a deeper level that I didn’t have time to explore before.”

“I’d always thought, or hoped, that I was the kind of person who didn’t need the dopamine hits that doing this job often gives you. But I hadn’t actually removed myself from it and it’s hard to eliminate the doubt that maybe if it all went away, I’d really miss it,” he instructed the newspaper in a just lately revealed story. “That’s always been a fear for me. So living my life in a way where I could really like who I am away from this world has been so powerful for me. Without question that has influenced the work I’m now doing because it came from a place of pure freedom.”

Speculation {that a} musical renaissance was on the horizon started in January, when Styles’s followers seen {that a} cryptic web site, webelongtogether.cocopyrighted by Sony Entertainment, had seemingly emerged out of nowhere. There was little to decode from the web site, which featured a looped video clip of followers in a packed crowd. While the video itself by no means explicitly referenced Styles, followers had been satisfied that this explicit snippet got here from his shock “Forever, Forever” music video, launched final December. It’s additionally price noting that the full-length music video ends with the phrase, “We Belong Together.”

In addition to seeing posters and digital billboards that includes the identical picture of the gang pop up in cities throughout the globe, followers who signed up for updates on webelongtogether.co additionally obtained a mysterious audio clip from Styles himself. The six-second voice memo options the pop star singing the road, “We belong together,” as the ultimate cryptic clue forward of his huge announcement.

Styles put an finish to the chatter in mid-January, when he unveiled the title and launch date for his extremely anticipated fourth solo album: Kiss All the Time. Disc, Occasionally. out March 6. As a part of its world rollout, secret album listening events have been going down throughout 40 cities, with the ultimate social gathering scheduled for the evening the document debuts.

Given the timing of his BRIT Awards efficiency and Saturday Night Live episode, followers can count on Styles to carry out tracks from the brand new document, like its euphoric leading single, “Aperture.” As the album’s title suggests, disco influences and dance-floor inclinations are very a lot current on the electro-heavy, synth-pop observe.

For Styles, “Aperture” is a music of celebration. It was additionally the final observe to return collectively on the album.

“I think getting this song at the end, it was kind of when we were feeling freest and just really having a lot of fun at that point. It kind of felt like the mission statement of what the album was about,” he told BBC Radio 1 in January. “I had a couple years away from a lot of work stuff, and had a lot of big realizations and just generally opening up more to the world, and I think, allowing more positive things to come into my life. … [“Aperture”] “It was kind of this perfect little bow on that.”

As if a brand new album, new single and new music video weren’t sufficient, Styles despatched shockwaves via his fandom when he introduced his controversially-priced “Together, Together” world tour. Similar to his “Love On Tour,” the previous One Directioner is set to play a handful of reveals in a number of of the cities he is set to go to.

He’ll kick issues off in Amsterdam, the place he’ll do six nights in May, earlier than returning to his native London for six extra reveals in June. After performing two reveals apiece in São Paulo and Mexico in July, Styles will contact down in New York City, the place he’ll play an bold 30 reveals at Madison Square Garden between August and October. The tour will conclude in mid-December, after Styles performs 4 reveals in Australia.

“Going into this next chapter I’m very excited for the tour, but if we were only doing two shows and my niece and sister were there watching me, that would be as fulfilling as I need it to be,” he instructed the Times. “And, when I listen back to the album, I can hear that I was having fun during this time. It’s fulfilling to make something you’re proud of.”

That Styles had even stepped away from music appears like a distant reminiscence. His followers, who affectionately describe themselves as “Harries,” had been as soon as clamoring for a (musical) signal of life from the pop singer. Now they’re being repeatedly fed.