Samuel Frederick Smith is an English singer and songwriter. 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’s debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014 on Capitol Records UK. The album’s lead single, “Lay Me Down”, was released prior to “La La La”.
The album’s second single, “Money on My Mind”, became their second number-one single in the UK.
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 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.
What is Sam Smiths most famous song?
Stay With Me is without a doubt Sam’s biggest song and their signature staple. Stay With Me is a heartfelt song about wanting something more with a simple one-night stand.
The song was a huge success and launched Sam into stardom, and guaranteed the singer a long and successful career. The song has just under 1.3 billion streams and is the singer’s biggest on Spotify.
In the UK Singles Chart, it debuted at number one, making it Smith’s third number one. The song became the eighth best-selling song of 2014 in the UK and the seventh overall when streaming is included.
On the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at number two for two weeks, making it Smith’s first top ten songs in the US as a lead artist and their second-highest charting single after “Unholy” (2022). It was held off from the top spot by MAGIC!’s “Rude.”
As of the week of 2 May 2015, “Stay with Me” has spent 21 weeks in the top ten and 54 weeks on the Hot 100. The song was the tenth best-selling song of 2014 in the United States with 3.34 million copies sold that year.
As of June 2015, The song has sold 4.1 million copies in the US. In Canada, “Stay with Me” topped the Canadian Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks.
In Australia, the song debuted at number 22 on the ARIA Singles Chart on the chart dated 5 May 2014 and later peaked at number five on the chart dated 16 June 2014.
The song also reached top 10 status in over twelve countries worldwide, becoming Smith’s most successful single to date.