GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi’s breakthrough single, “Someone You Loved,” has been certified RIAA Diamond. The achievement, which recognizes 10 millions sales and streaming equivalent earned in the U.S. alone, coincides with the fifth anniversary of the chart-topping single’s release.
“Someone You Loved” was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Song of the Year and was named Song of the Year at the 2020 BRIT Awards. The track spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and seven weeks atop the Official UK Singles chart. “Someone You Loved” – which ranks as the most-streamed song of all time in the U.K. – has amassed over 16 billion combined global streams, achieving Platinum status or greater in 19 countries. Combined views of the accompanying videos have surpassed one billion. Watch the official video below.
According to Capitol Music Group Chair & CEO Michelle Jubelirer, “I couldn’t be more thrilled for Lewis that “Someone You Loved” has earned such rare Diamond distinction. The song is a classic—transcending any particular genre or moment in music—and one that will surely continue to resonate deeply with people the world over for countless years to come.”
TIME Magazine said, “Lewis Capaldi has the kind of deep, textured voice that you could listen to for hours…(his) talent is tugging at heartstrings- or rather, pulling at them with all his vocal might.” Esquire observed, “(‘Someone You Loved’) is good sad music about a breakup and love lost… Pour yourself a whiskey and settle in.” Stereogum noted, “His voice is an undeniably powerful instrument, a rich and textured soulful roar that sometimes quivers with fragility…‘Someone You Loved’ is a ballad about the pain of a romance falling apart just when you were starting to envision a future together. Countless songs have attempted to conjure those feelings, but Capaldi sells it like few singers in recent memory.”
The song appeared on Capaldi’s blockbuster debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent. The best-selling album in the U.K. for two consecutive years – 2019 and 2020 – it also contained such hits as “Before You Go” and “Bruises.” His follow-up album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, was released earlier this year. In this recent profile in The New York Times, pop music critic Jon Caramanica said, “Capaldi has a scorched cannon of a voice, and it’s best deployed on songs about anguish. To date, his career has lurched forward one vocal bloodletting at a time.” Capaldi performed songs from his new album – and an emotional, stripped-down performance of “Someone You Loved” – in his Tiny Desk Concert on NPR.
