Harry Styles and Dua Lipa recently topped the list of the Richest UK celebrities Under 30. In the list shared by Heat magazine on October 30, 2024, the former One Direction member was estimated to have a net worth of £200 million.
Dua Lipa’s net worth was reported to be £104 million, coming in second place on the list. The duo are amongst the most influential UK singers and have released successful projects in recent years.a
Harry Styles' most recent album, Harry’s House, received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2023 and made it to Rolling Stone’s 2023 list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Dua Lipa, on the other hand, has had a busy 2024 so far, with the release of her chart-topping album, Radical Optimism, in May 2024, and headlining the Glastonbury Festival in June of the same year.
Harry Styles and Dua Lipa's career journey and achievements explored
Harry Styles's career highlights and achievements
1) From X-Factor to One Direction and debut solo album
Harry Edward Styles, professionally known as Harry Styles, began his musical career as a contestant on the X Factor show in 2010 and was placed together with four other contestants, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan, to form the One Direction band.
The music group became one of the bestselling of all time. After they embarked on an indefinite hiatus in 2015, Harry Styles began his solo career and released his eponymous studio album, Harry Styles, in 2017.
The album featured the Sign of The Times track, which was listed by Rolling Stone as the best song of 2017.
2) Second and third studio albums
In October 2019, Harry Styles released Fine Line which peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums chart and broke the record as the biggest first-week sales debut from an English artist in the US since 1991.
He earned three Grammy nominations for the album and won Best Pop Solo Performance in March 2021.
Harry Styles’s third studio album, Harry’s House was released in 2022 to commercial and critical success with its lead single, As It Was debuting atop the U.K. and US charts. The song also made history in the US as the fourth-longest-running number-one song in the Billboard Hot 100 chart history at 15 weeks.
3) Accolades and Love On Tour
Styles also became the first British solo artist to have four songs from the same album concurrently charting within the Hot 100. Harry’s House also won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
The British act’s Love On Tour which kicked off on September 2021 and ended in July 2022, grossed $617.3 million and was the fifth-highest-grossing tour at the time.
Dua Lipa's career highlights and achievements
1) Signing with Warner Bros., collaborating with Sean Paul and debut album
Dua Lipa began her music career by signing with Tap Management in 2013 and writing the track, Hotter Than Hell, which led to her being signed by Warner Bros. in 2014.
Dua Lipa featured on Sean Paul’s No Lie in November 2016 which peaked at number ten in the UK and became a top-ten hit in ten countries six years after its release—becoming Sean Paul’s most-streamed song as a non-featured artist.
The release of her eponymous debut album in 2017, shot her to stardom. Dua Lipa peaked at number three on the UK Albums chart and spawned the number-one single, New Rules which also became the first by a female artist to reach the top since Adele’s Hello in 2015.
2) Collaboration with Calvin Harris, second studio album and Grammy Award wins
Dua was also named the most-streamed woman of 2017 in the UK by Spotify. Dua got her second number-one single from her 2018 collaboration with Calvin Harris, One Kiss.
The song also became the best-selling songs of 2018 in the UK. In 2019, the British-Albanian singer bagged two Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording for Electricity with Silk City.
Dua Lipa released Future Nostalgia, her second studio album in March 2020. At the time of the album’s release, Dua became the first British female artist since Vera Lynn to have three top-ten singles in a calendar year, a record she broke with the Levitating track.
3) Third studio album release and scheduled tour
According to Spotify, Future Nostalgia was the most-streamed album by a woman and the fifth most-streamed album in 2020. Her most recent album, Radical Optimism, was released in May 2024 and sold 83,000 units in its first week.
The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and was the most-sold album in pure sales that week.
The Radical Optimism tour to promote the album of the same name is scheduled to begin in November 2024 and conclude in October 2025.
Harry Styles and Dua Lipa have shown great commitment to music and have contributed immensely to the industry at large.