Lewis Capaldi

Lewis Capaldi learned to play drums and guitar when he was two, and began his musical career singing in pubs aged 9. By 17 he had committed to a career in music. He was discovered by his manager Ryan Walter through an iPhone recording that he (Lewis) had recorded in his bedroom and had uploaded to his SoundCloud account. He released his debut extended play recording Bloom EP on 20 October 2017 on which he worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Malay, a long-time collaborator of Frank Ocean. He later released his first track "Bruises" on 31st March 2017. The song quickly amassed close to 28 million plays on Spotify worldwide, making him the fastest ever unsigned artist to reach 25 million plays on the platform. Shortly afterwards, he was signed to Virgin EMI Records and Capitol Records. He also released two tracks named "Lost On You" and "Fade" in the same year. In late 2017, he was named as one of Vevo discovers 'Artists to Watch 2018'. He was also included on the long list for BBC Music's Sound of 2018. He supported Rag'n' Bone Man on his European tour in November 2017, and Milky Chance on their North American leg of the Blossom tour in January 2018.

In February 2018 he released a single with Jessie Reyez entitled "Rush." He was invited by Niall Horan to support him on two dates on his Flicker World Tour at the Glasgow SEC Armadillo in March 2018. In May 2018 Capaldi joined Sam Smith on his The Thrill of It All European Tour, opening for Sam over 19 dates. He followed this by announcing a fourth headline UK and European tour, this time playing 2000 capacity venues across the UK and Europe, including two nights at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom, with both shows selling out. On 13th July 2018 Capaldi was named as one of two acts in BBC Radio 1's 'Brit List', guaranteeing him three successive incremental Radio 1 playlist places. In August 2018, Irish Indie rock band Kodaline invited Lewis to open for them at a concert in Belfast. In addition to this, Lewis was included in the line-ups for many festivals during the summer of 2018, including: Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Osheaga, Reading & Leeds Festival, Rize and TRNSMT. His second extended play Breach was released on 8th November 2018, which included previously released singles "Tough" and "Grace", along with new songs "Someone You Loved" and a demo of "Something Borrowed". Zane Lowe premiered "Someone You Loved" on Apple's Beats 1 radio on the day of release. It is rumoured that his song Someone You Loved was inspired by his break-up with ex Britain's Got Talent Semi-Finalist Paige Turley in 2015, after the pair had been dating for but one year. He later stated that these rumours were false at the 2020 BRIT Awards after his song Someone You Loved won the award for the best Music Video, the song was actually inspired by and about the death of his grandmother. On 14th November 2018 he performed a cover of Lady Gaga's "Shallow" from A Star Is Born live on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. To date, Capaldi has played four sold-out back-to-back tours, and in his first 15 months of touring sold 300,000 headline tickets. He supported Bastille on their 2019 tour ‘Still Avoiding Tomorrow.'

He was nominated for the Brit Critics' Choice Award for 2019, alongside Mahalia and eventual winner Sam Fender. Lewis opened 2019 with his breakthrough single "Someone You Loved" charting in over 29 countries around the world becoming a hit all over Europe, Asia and Australia. The song spent seven weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart fending of Meduza and Goodboys' song "Piece Of Your Heart". His debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent followed in May which became the best selling album in the UK in five years, spending five weeks at #1 in the UK Albums Chart in its first six weeks of release. On 3rd May 2019 he released "Hold Me While You Wait" which peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The album also achieved gold status in the UK but two weeks after release. He also made history by becoming the first ever artist in global history to both announce and sell out an arena tour before the release of a debut album. The shows sold out in one second upon tickets becoming available and are set to see him play to over a quarter of a million people at his headline shows in March 2020. At the end of October 2019, “Someone You Loved” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first Scottish solo artist to top the US charts since Sheena Easton in 1981. In early October 2019 his 2017 song "Bruises" entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #6. On 30th October, he was announced as an opening act for Niall Horan's Nice to Meet Ya Tour, set to begin in the year of 2020. He has been nominated for nine awards in between three years and won 5 of which. On Tuesday 19th November 2019 he released a new single entitled "Before You Go." Later in the same week on Friday 22nd November 2019 "Before You Go" entered the UK Singles chart at #19. The following week the song saw an increase in seventeen places to #2. In the same month he also released a single entitled 'Forever'. On Friday 6th December 2019 the song remained in its steady place at #2. On Tuesday 10th December 2019 he appeared at The Royal Variety Performance singing his song Bruises. On Friday 13th December 2019 Before You Go fell down two places to #4. On Friday 20th December 2019 the song rose back up a place to #3 on The Official Christmas Top 40 Singles Chart of 2019 thus losing out on the Christmas #1 single, to Ladbaby. He appeared as a guest performer on both The Christmas special on Wednesday 25th December 2019 and New Years special of Top Of The Pops on Monday December 30th 2019. On Friday 27th December 2019 the song fell down a further nine places to #12. On Friday 3rd January 2020 his album Hold Me While you wait became the first number one album of the year 2020 and the new decade, alongside Someone You Loved re-entering the Official Chart at #15, and Before You Go, going up ten from #12 to #2. On Friday 10th January 2020 Bruises charted at #13, whilst Someone You Loved went up eight places from #15 to #7, and Before You Go remaining at #2. His song Someone You Loved has since been nominated for a Grammy. On Friday 17th January 2020 Bruises remained at #13, Someone You Loved remained at #7, and Before You Go remained at #2. On Friday 24th January 2020 Bruises fell down three places to #16, Someone You Loved fell down three places to #10, and Before You Go fell down three places to #5. On Friday 31st January 2020 Bruises went up one from #16 to #15, Someone You Loved went up one to #9, and Before You Go rose four places from #5 to #1 becoming the UK Official #1 single of the week, and Lewis Capaldi's second ever #1 single, the first being Someone You Loved. On Friday 7th February 2020 Bruises remained at #15, Someone You Loved went up three from #9 to #6, and Before You Go fell down two going from #1 to #3. On Friday 14th February 2020 Bruises departed from the chart, Hold Me While You Wait re-entered the chart at #30, Someone You Loved went down one from #6 to #7, and Before You Go remained at #3. On Tuesday 18th February 2020 he won song of the year for Someone You Loved, and best new artist, as well as performing Someone You Loved. On Friday 21st February 2020 Hold Me While You Wait went up four places from #30 to #26, Someone You Loved remained at #6, and Before You Go fell down a place from #3 to #4. On Friday 28th February 2020 Hold Me While You Wait fell down a place from #26 to #27, Before You Go fell down fourteen places from #4 to #18, and Someone You Loved remained at #6. On Friday March 6th 2020 Hold Me While You Wait remained at #27, Before You Go fell down three places from #18 to #21, and Someone You Loved fell down two places from #6 to #8. On Friday March 13th 2020 Hold Me While You Wait fell down two places from #27 to #29, Before You Go fell down two places from #21 to #23, and Someone You Loved fell down a further two places from #8 to #10. On Friday March 20th 2020 Someone You Loved fell down eighteen places from #10 to #28, Hold Me While You Wait rose back up two places from #29 to #27, and Before You Go rose up two places from #23 to #21. On Friday March 27th 2020 Hold Me While You Wait departed from the chart, Someone You Loved fell down two places from #28 to #30, and Before You Go fell down four places from #21 to #25. On Friday April 3rd 2020 Before You Go fell down two places from #25 to #27, and Someone You Loved fell down six places from #30 to #36. On Friday April 10th 2020 Someone You Loved departed from the chart, whereas Before You Go fell down four places from #27 to #31. On Friday April 17th 2020 Someone You Loved re-entered the chart at #36, and Before You Go rose up a place from #31 to #30. On Friday April 24th April 2020 Before You Go fell down six places from #30 to #36, and Someone You Loved fell down a place from #36 to #37. On Friday May 1st 2020 both Before You Go and Someone You Loved departed from the chart. After a weeks absence from the charts Someone You Loved re-entered the chart once again at #37 on Friday 15th May 2020. The following week on Friday May 22nd 2020 Someone You Loved fell down a place from #37 to #38. The following week on Friday May 29th 2020 Someone You Loved departed from the chart once again. On Friday July 3rd 2020 Someone You Loved re-entered the chart at #40. The following week on Friday July 10th 2020 Someone You Loved departed from the chart once more. On Friday 17th November 2021 Capaldi acted as part of a backing band alongside Ed Sheeran, Griff, Sam Smith, & Yungblud on both Anne-Marie & Niall Horan's cover of the single 'Everywhere' by Fleetwood Mac in order to benefit Children In Need. The following week on Friday 26th November 2021 the cover entered the Official Chart Top 40 and peaked at #23. The following week on Friday 3rd December 2021 Everywhere departed from the chart. In 2022, he released a new song entitled 'Forget Me'. On Friday 16th September 2022 Forget Me entered the Official Chart Top 40 and instantly peaked at #1. The following week on Friday 23rd September 2022 Forget Me fell down a place from #1 to #2. The following week on Friday 30th September 2022 Forget Me fell down a further place from #2 to #3. The following week on Friday 7th October 2022 Forget Me remained at #3. The following week on Thursday 13th October 2022 he performed Forget Me at the National Television Awards 2022. The following day on Friday 14th October 2022 Forget Me once again remained at #2. The following day on Saturday 15th October 2022 he performed Forget Me upon the first episode of the nineteenth season of 'The Jonathan Ross Show'. The following week on Friday 22nd October 2022 Forget Me once again remained at #3. The following week on Friday 29th October 2022 Forget Me fell down three places from #3 to #6. The following week on Friday 4th November 2022 Forget Me rose back up two places from #6 to #4. The following week on Friday 11th November 2022 Forget Me fell back down two places from #4 to #6. The following week on Friday 18th November 2022 Forget Me fell down ten places from #6 to #16. On the same day, he appeared as a guest performer upon the BBC's coverage of 'Children In Need'. The following week on Friday 25th November 2022 Forget Me fell down three places from #16 to #19. The following week on Friday 2nd December 2022 Forget Me fell down ten places from #19 to #29. On the same day he released his latest single entitled 'Pointless'. The following week on Friday 9th December 2022 Pointless entered the Official Chart Top 40 at #20, and Forget Me departed from the chart. Three days later on Monday 12th December 2022, he appeared as a guest performer upon an episode of 'Strictly Come Dancing'. A further four days later on Friday 16th December 2022 Pointless also departed from the chart. The following week on Friday 23rd December 2022 Pointless re-entered the chart at #40. The following week on Friday 30th December 2022 Pointless once again departed from the chart. On Friday 6th January 2023 Forget Me re-entered the chart at #26, and Pointless re-entered the chart at #15. On the same day he appeared as a guest performer on 'The Graham Norton Show', wherein he performed his latest single Pointless. The following week on Friday 13th January 2023 Forget Me fell down three places from #26 to #29, whereas Pointless rose up fourteen places from #15 to #1, thus meaning the latter track now had a peak position of #1. The following week on Friday 20th January 2023 Forget Me departed from the chart and Pointless fell down eleven places from #1 to #12. The following week on Friday 27th January 2023 Pointless fell down a further place from #12 to #13 and Forget Me re-entered the chart at #35. The following week on Friday 3rd February Pointless fell down a further place from #13 to #14 and Forget Me fell down three places from #35 to #38. The following day on Saturday 4th February 2023, Capaldi appeared as a guest upon an episode of 'Michael McIntyre's Big Show'. The following week on Friday 10th February 2023 Pointless remained at #14 and Forget Me once again departed from the chart. The following day on Saturday 11th February 2023, he appeared as a guest performer at the Brit Awards wherein he performed 'Forget Me' whilst accompanied by House Gospel Choir. The following week on Friday 17th February 2023 Pointless fell down two places from #14 to #16 and Forget Me re-entered the chart at #37. The following week on Friday 24th February 2023 Forget Me fell down three places from #37 to #40 and Pointless departed from the chart. The following week on Friday 3rd March 2023 Forget Me rose back up two places from #40 to #38. The following week on Friday 10th March 2023 Forget Me once again departed from the chart.

On Thursday 16th, he released a Netflix documentary entitled 'How I'm Feeling Now', this was followed by the release of a single of the same name the following day on Friday 17th March 2023. On Friday 24th March 2023, he appeared upon an episode of ITV's "This Morning" wherein he was interviewed surrounding his new documentary and new single by both Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary. On the same day the single How I'm Feeling Now entered the Official Chart Top 40 at #24. The following week on Friday 31st March 2023 How I'm Feeling Now fell down nine places from #24 to #33. The following week on Friday 7th April 2023 How I'm Feeling Now fell down four places from #33 to #37. The following week on Friday 14th April 2023 How I'm Feeling Now rose up thirteen places from #37 to #24, Forget Me re-entered the chart at #8, and Pointless re-entered the chart at #17. On the same day he released a new single entitled 'Wish You The Best'. The following week on Friday 21st April 2023 How I'm Feeling Now departed from the chart, Pointless rose back up a place from #17 to #16, Forget Me rose up a place from #8 to #7 and Wish You The Best entered the Official Chart Top 40 with its debut at #1. The following week on Friday 28th April 2023 Wish You The Best fell down two places from #1 to #3, Forget Me fell down two places from #7 to #9, and Pointless fell down seven places from #16 to #23. In May 2023, he released a new single entitled 'Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before' and a new album entitled 'Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent', with the latter entering the Official Albums Chart Top 40 and peaking at #1. The following week on Friday 5th May 2023 Wish You The Best fell down a further place from #3 to #4, Forget Me fell down a further two places from #9 to #11 and Pointless remained at #23. The following week on Friday 12th May 2023 Wish You The Best fell down a further two places from #4 to #6, Forget Me remained at #11 and Pointless fell down eight places from #23 to #31. The following week on Friday 19th May 2023 Wish You The Best rose back up a place from #6 to #5, and both Forget Me and Pointless departed from the chart. The following week on Friday 26th May 2023 Wish You The Best rose up two places from #5 to #3, and Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before entered the Official Chart Top 40 at #28. The following week on Friday 2nd June 2023 Wish You The Best fell down four places from #3 to #7 and Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before departed from the chart. The following week on Friday 9th June 2023 Wish You The Best fell down a further three places from #7 to #10. The following week on Friday 16th June 2023 Wish You The Best fell down a further eight places from #10 to #18. The following week on Friday 23rd June 2023 Wish You The Best departed from the chart.

In January 2024, Capaldi released two new singles entitled 'Strangers' & 'A Cure For Minds Unwell'. On Friday 12th January 2024, Strangers entered The Official Chart Top 40 at #37. The following week on Friday 19th January 2024, Strangers departed from the chart.

## Track Discography

* Bruises (Lewis Capaldi)
* Lost On You (Lewis Capaldi)
* Fade (Lewis Capaldi)
* Tough (Lewis Capaldi)
* Grace (Lewis Capaldi)
* Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)
* Rush (Lewis Capaldi featuring Jessie Reyez)
* Hold Me While You Wait (Lewis Capaldi)
* Before You Go (Lewis Capaldi)
* Forever (Lewis Capaldi)
* Everywhere (Anne-Marie, Niall Horan, BBC Children In Need)
* Forget Me (Lewis Capaldi)
* Pointless (Lewis Capaldi)
* How I'm Feeling Now (Lewis Capaldi)
* Wish You The Best (Lewis Capaldi)
* Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before (Lewis Capaldi)

## EPs Discography

* Bloom (2017)
* Breach (2018)
* Bruises EP (2019)
* Before You Go EP (2020)
* To Tell The Truth I Can't Believe We Got This Far (2020)

## Album(s) Discography

* Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (2019)
* Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (2023)