Harry Styles to perform at Brits 2026 in Manchester

Harry Styles will perform at the 2026 Brit awards ceremony with music from his upcoming album.

The former One Direction star will take to the stage at Manchester's Co-op Live on 28 February - three years after his last performance at the Brits in 2023, which saw him take home four gongs.

The 31-year-old, from Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, will join fellow singer Olivia Dean at the ceremony, which is being held in Manchester for the first time in its nearly 50-year long history.

It comes after the singer announced his fourth studio album - Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally - which is due for release on March 6 and released its first single Aperture last week.

Styles announced on Instagram last week that he would set off on a global tour - Together, Together - this summer.

He rose to fame in 2010 as part of One Direction, which was formed on the ITV reality talent show The X Factor.

The singer released a self-titled debut solo album a year after the band's hiatus in 2017, and followed it up with Fine Line (2019) and Harry's House (2022), with his debut and third record reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart, while Fine Line reached number two.

As a solo artist, Styles has had two UK number one singles with As It Was and Sign Of The Times, giving him the most commercially successful solo career of the members of One Direction.

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