Song of the day for January 9 2024

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Harry Styles' hit song "Watermelon Sugar" from his album Fine Line reached No.1 on the US chart in 2020. The track, inspired by the novel In Watermelon Sugar, received critical acclaim and commercial success, peaking in the top ten in over 20 countries. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance and a Brit Award for British Single of the Year.

The song for today is Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles.

Former One Direction member Harry Styles was at No.1 on the US chart with his second studio album Fine Line on this date in 2020. The album received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance and a Brit Award for British Single of the Year for ‘Watermelon Sugar’.

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. 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.