Music for a Sushi Restaurant

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"Music for a Sushi Restaurant"
Harry Styles - Music for a Sushi Restaurant.png
Front cover, designed by Columbia Records
Single by Harry Styles
from the album Harry's House
Released3 October 2022 (2022-10-03)
Recorded23 March 2020
Studio
Genre Pop [1]
Length3:14
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Harry Styles singles chronology
"Late Night Talking"
(2022)		"Music for a Sushi Restaurant"
(2022)		"Satellite"
(2023)
Music video
"Music for a Sushi Restaurant" on YouTube

"Music for a Sushi Restaurant" is a song by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, from his third studio album Harry's House (2022). It was released to hot adult contemporary radio on 3 October 2022, as the album's third single. [2] The song was written by Styles, Thomas Hull, Tyler Johnson and Mitch Rowland, while production was handled by Kid Harpoon and Johnson. A music video for the song was later released on 27 October 2022. [3]

Contents

Background

Harry Styles announced the title of his third studio album as Harry's House on 23 March 2022, unveiling its artwork, a 40-second trailer and the album's release date as 20 May 2022. [4]

Styles spoke in an interview with Leila Fadel of NPR after the release of the album and revealed the story behind the track:

"I was in a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles with my producer and one of our songs came on from the last album," he said before revealing that he thought it was “really strange music for a sushi restaurant.

"And then I was like – that would be a really fun album title, but then as the song started being made I kind of just set on Music for a Sushi Restaurant," the star continued.

Music for a Sushi Restaurant definitely would have been a great album name, but Harry's House has a better ring to it.

"So the next time you're in a sushi restaurant and this is playing you’ll be like 'Harry’s House'," Leila joked, to which Harry said: "I'll be like – this is everything I've ever wanted." [5]

Promotion

The song was used as the soundtrack for an advertisement for Apple AirPods, which featured Styles scat singing along with pink, red and blue dancers in front of cycles of color — a nod to Apple's iconic "Silhouette" advertisements of the 2000s. [6] Styles requested that Apple donate the artist fee for his appearance in the commercial to the International Rescue Committee (IRC). [6]

Music video

The music video for "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" was directed by Aube Perrie and released on 27 October 2022. The video was initially teased on 20 October 2022 through a commercial and website promoting the fictional "Gill's Lounge", the restaurant depicted in the music video. [7] [8]

The video features Styles as a human-squid hybrid that is washed ashore and found by several owners of a restaurant, who plan to cook him into sushi. Styles reveals his singing ability and takes control of the restaurant, making the owners his servants. The restaurant is turned into a lounge where Styles performs. While performing, Styles loses his voice, and the owners drag him away and turn him into sushi. The video ends with the lounge turning into a sushi restaurant. [9]

Accolades

Awards and nominations for "Music for a Sushi Restaurant"
OrganizationYearCategoryResultRef.
MTV Video Music Awards 2023 Best Visual Effects Nominated [10]
MVF Awards2023International Music VideoWon [11]

Commercial performance

Following the release of its parent album Harry's House, "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" entered at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 4, 2022, becoming one of the four top-ten entries; the others being "As It Was", "Late Night Talking" and "Matilda" which peaked at numbers one, three and nine, respectively. [12]

Prior to being released as a single, "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" began to chart on the Mainstream Top 40 at number 40 on the issue dated July 23, 2022, [13] and later peaked at number 9.

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Music for a Sushi Restaurant"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [45] Platinum70,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [46] 2× Platinum80,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [47] Platinum80,000‡
Mexico (AMPROFON) [48] Gold70,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [49] Gold15,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [50] Gold25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [51] Platinum600,000‡
United States (RIAA) [52] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

"Music for a Sushi Restaurant" release history
RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom25 May 2022 Digital download
[53]
United States3 October 2022 Hot adult contemporary radio Columbia [2]
Italy27 October 2022 Radio airplay Sony [54]
United Kingdom2 December 2022 CD single
  • Erskine
  • Columbia
 [55]

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