90,000 People, One Record Broken, and 'Little Freak': Harry Styles Opens Wembley
Harry Styles kicked off his record-breaking 12-night Wembley Stadium residency on June 12, surpassing both Coldplay and Taylor Swift's single-year records at the venue. The 20-song setlist was packed with surprises: the encore's rotating slot landed on 'Little Freak' — a tour debut — and Styles paused mid-show to pay tribute to David Hockney, who had passed away that morning.
Friday night at Wembley Stadium, Harry Styles walked out in front of 90,000 people and quietly made history — not just once, but several times over the next two hours.
The first show of his 12-night residency at the London venue kicked off the Together, Together Tour's UK leg on June 12, and the crowd already knew the numbers going in: with 12 performances booked across June and July 2026, Styles had surpassed Coldplay's previous record of 10 shows at Wembley in a single year (set in 2025) and Taylor Swift's eight-night solo run — before he'd played a single chord.12
The record that broke before the encore
The residency is part of his Together, Together world tour, built around his fourth studio album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, released March 6 and immediately landing an Official Chart double: a UK number one album and a UK number one single with "American Girls."1 Ten of the night's 20 songs came from the record.
Shania Twain opened the night at 7pm, running through a set ahead of Styles' 8:20pm stage time.3 The crowd waited. A version of Elvis Presley's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" played over the PA as a pre-show tape. Then Styles came out.
He opened with "Are You Listening Yet?" — the lead track from Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. — and didn't slow down. What followed was a show built across four distinct album eras, with Styles treating the enormous stage not as a backdrop but as a series of overlapping spaces: the main A-stage, the runway-style B-stage stretching into the pitch, and a central X-stage where the band played in a full circle facing each other rather than the audience.4
20 songs, four albums
The night covered every phase of Styles' solo career, distributed across a set that ran nearly two hours:
- Act I: "Are You Listening Yet?" through "Coming Up Roses" and "Fine Line," anchored by a string section that carried a medley of One Direction songs — "Night Changes," "Falling," "History" — as an instrumental interlude between songs.
- Act II: The Kiss All The Time material hit hardest here, with "Italian Girls," "American Girls," and "Keep Driving" giving the rave-influenced second act a different texture from the classic-pop first.
- X-Stage segment: "Ready, Steady, Go!," "Dance No More," "Treat People With Kindness," and "Pop," with Styles himself crediting "Carla's Song" as the track that unlocked his new album's direction. "I said yes to my friends," he told the crowd. "Said yes to dancing."4
- Encore: Where the real surprises were.3
"Little Freak" and the nightly wildcard
Going into the tour, Styles told fans that one spot in the encore would rotate every night — no two Wembley shows would be identical. On June 12, that slot landed on "Little Freak" from Harry's House (2022), a deeply personal, quiet track about lost connection. It had never appeared on the Together, Together tour before that night.3
The reaction online was immediate. Clips of the moment circulated across TikTok and X within minutes. "Little Freak" is one of Harry's House's least-performed songs live — its quiet, almost conversational tone lands differently in a 90,000-capacity outdoor stadium than the anthems around it, and that's exactly why it hit.
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The encore then moved into "Sign of the Times" — his debut solo single from 2017 — with strings, and closed on "As It Was" in an alternate, extended version that Billboard called a callback to his 2023 Grammy performance.4
A tribute no one was expecting: David Hockney
On the morning of June 12, hours before the show, news broke that David Hockney — one of Britain's most significant post-war visual artists — had died at 88. Three years earlier, Hockney had painted a portrait of Styles. The connection was personal.4
Before "Aperture," Styles displayed one of Hockney's quotes on the stadium screens:
"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."
The crowd, which had arrived ready for a party, went quiet. Then "Aperture" opened — arguably the clearest song Styles has made about the vulnerability of trying to connect — and the stadium responded with the kind of energy you can't manufacture.
What's coming at Wembley next
Night 2 was June 13. The next cluster runs June 17, 19, 20, and then weekly into July 4 — 12 shows in total, with the rotating surprise encore slot changing every night.1 After London, the tour heads to São Paulo (July), Mexico City (August), and a run at Madison Square Garden across August–October — then Australia in November and December.
The full confirmed setlist from Night 1:
Pre-show / tape: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Elvis Presley version)
Act I: Are You Listening Yet? / Golden / Adore You / Watermelon Sugar / Music for a Sushi Restaurant / Taste Back / Coming Up Roses / Fine Line / Night Changes–Falling–History (instrumental, string section)
Act II: Italian Girls / American Girls / Keep Driving
X-Stage: Ready, Steady, Go! / Dance No More / Treat People With Kindness / Pop / Season 2 Weight Loss / Carla's Song / Aperture
Encore: Little Freak (tour debut) / Sign of the Times / As It Was (extended version)
Post-show tape: "Souvenir" (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)3
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References
- 1Official Charts: Harry Styles Together Together Tour setlist 2026
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- 2Streamline: Harry Styles launches record-breaking 12-night Wembley residency
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