Nick Raphael is a music industry executive and was born in London, England. He is currently President of Capitol Records in the UK. He got his first taste of the music industry in 1987, when he with school friends promoted a night at Dingwalls in Camden Lock, London. His most recent successes include 5 Seconds of Summer who became the first band to have their first three albums enter at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Paloma Faith who won the 2015 Brit Award for Best Female Solo Artist, Liam Payne who currently has the biggest selling single from a member of One Direction and Sam Smith who won four 2015 Grammy Awards plus an Oscar and Golden Globe in 2016. In October 2018, Sam Smith surpassed 20 million global album sales.