Smith's achievements include four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Īs of April 2021, Smith has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Following the 2018 single " Promises" with Calvin Harris, which peaked at number one in the UK, Smith released " Dancing with a Stranger" with Normani in 2019, which reached the top ten in the UK and the US and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and followed it by releasing a string of commercially successful singles " How Do You Sleep?", " To Die For", and " I'm Ready" with Demi Lovato all of which feature on Smith's third album, Love Goes. The lead single, " Too Good at Goodbyes", reached number one in the UK and Australia and number four in the US. Smith's second studio album, The Thrill of It All, was released in November 2017 and debuted atop the UK and US album charts. The album won four awards, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.įor Smith's and Jimmy Napes's song " Writing's on the Wall", the theme for the James Bond film Spectre (2015), Smith won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The third single, " Stay with Me", was internationally successful, reaching number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while subsequent singles " I'm Not the Only One" and " Like I Can" reached the top ten in the UK. The album's second single, " Money on My Mind", became Smith's second number one single in the UK. The album's lead single, " Lay Me Down", was released prior to "La La La". Smith's debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. In December 2013, Smith was nominated for the 2014 Brit Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2014 poll, winning both. After rising to prominence in October 2012 by featuring on Disclosure's breakthrough single " Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart, Smith was subsequently featured on Naughty Boy's " La La La", which became a number one single in May 2013. In the Lonely Hour, out May 26th on Capitol, blends R&B with elements of classic pop, gospel (as evidenced on “Stay With Me”) and even country Rolling Stone calls one the LP one of the 27 must-hear albums of the spring. Speaking directly about the album’s bummed-out title, Smith told the magazine, “I deal with all the different aspects of loneliness.Samuel Frederick Smith (born ) is an English singer and songwriter. Smith truly broke out in 2012 with his vocals on Disclosure’s “Latch,” and ever since, the anticipation has been building for his own debut. Reveals His True Identity in ‘SNL’ Promos In the new clip, Smith wanders the streets of London after an evening of love-gone-wrong. “Guess it’s true, I’m not good at a one-night stand,” he belts on the track over gospel piano, miming the lyrics to the camera, “But I still need love ’cause I’m just a man.” The song builds from that quiet melancholy to a resilient chorus, and the video gets equally cathartic as Smith stumbles upon a massive choir in a nondescript church beaming with light. British soul crooner Sam Smith has shared the sparse music video for “Stay With Me,” the latest single from his upcoming debut LP, In the Lonely Hour.
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