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05 | :down: 04 | 8th week

 

Dave

Starlight

 

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Non-album single

Released: 3rd March 2022

Label: Dave / Neighbourhood Recordings

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (17/03/2022) | 1-1-1-1-2-3-4-5

 

Sales: 300k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

26 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

02 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Challenging power and perception with a free-spoken approach to rap, Dave has indelibly amplified hip-hop’s voice in Britain. Born David Orobosa Omoregie in Brixton, London in 1998, Dave suddenly implanted himself in the UK rap scene in 2016, first with the electric grime alliance “Thiago Silva” with AJ Tracey and then when Drake jumped on the remix of the velvety “Wanna Know” from Dave’s first EP, Six Paths. Rebuffing label advances to pursue his career independently, he demonstrated a self-reliant streak on releases such as his 2017 EP Game Over, whose “Question Time,” a scathing attack on Theresa May’s Conservative government, garnered him an Ivor Novello songwriting award. Dave’s full-length debut, the Mercury Prize winner Psychodrama, followed in 2019; epitomizing his achingly honest rap style, it laid bare personal vulnerabilities while challenging institutional racism in a provocative fashion rarely heard in British rap. The centerpiece of the lavishly soundscaped album was “Black,” a heart-wrenching portrait of the prejudice affronting Black lives. At the 2020 BRIT Awards, where Psychodrama won Album of the Year, Dave started his performance of “Black” by accompanying himself on piano and ended it by excoriating British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a “real racist” and executing a perfect mic drop. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2017 51 Wanna Know (feat. Drake) -NAS-

2017 63 Samantha (Dave & J Hus) -NAS-

2017 86 Tequila -NAS-

2017 53 Peligro (Giggs feat. Dave)

2017 17 No Words (feat. MoStack) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 32 How I Met My Ex -AT-

2017 55 My 19th Birthday -AT-

2018 30 Hangman -NAS-

2018 01 Funky Friday (Dave & Fredo) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2019 06 18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave)

2019 15 All I Ever Wanted (Fredo feat. Dave)

2019 40 Black -1-

2019 08 Disaster (feat. J Hus) -3-

2019 09 Streatham -AT-

2019 06 Location (feat. Burna Boy) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 19 Stinking Rich (MoStack & J Hus feat. Dave)

2019 36 Thiago Silva (Dave & AJ Tracey) -NAS-

2019 12 Professor X -OST-

2019 90 God's Eye -OST-

2019 21 Playing For Keeps (D-Block Europe feat. Dave)

2019 15 Paper Cuts -NAS-

2020 35 Straight Murder (Giggs & David) (Giggs feat. Dave)

2021 03 Money Talks (Fredo feat. Dave)

2021 09 Titanium -NAS-

2021 33 Mercury (Dave & Kamal.) -NAS-

2021 02 Clash (Dave & Stormzy) -1-

2021 04 Verdansk -2-

2021 06 In The Fire -AT-

2022 70 Screwface Capital -AT-

2022 01 Starlight -NAS-

 

2 x #1 | 5 x Top 5 | 11 x Top 10 | 15 x Top 20 | 23 x Top 40 | 30 x Top 100

 

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Still not tired of this. Shame it'll probably be hit by ACR before Peru, MMFG, Down Under, House On Fire, The Motto, Anyone For You, BMW, ect you get the point <_<
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04 | :down: 03 | 7th week

 

Aitch and Ashanti

Baby

 

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4th single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 10th March 2022

Label: Capitol UK Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (24/03/2022) | 2-2-2-3-4-3-4

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

03 Sales

02 Audio Streaming

02 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Aitch

Navigating rap stardom is a tricky thing, but Aitch has it down pat. He’s chameleonic like the pop stars he collabs with, gritty like the grime artists that inspired him. Born Harrison Armstrong in Manchester in 1999, Aitch grew up removed from the London scene, where grime blossomed during his formative years, but soaked up the music from afar. Then, as a teenager, he started rapping, building a following online with his snaking flows and dizzying rhyme schemes. Things took off in 2018 when he dropped his menacing debut single “Straight Rhymez”, and Aitch has since risen to the pantheon of hip-hop. In tracks like the 2019 remix of Ed Sheeran’s “Take Me Back To London”, you’ll hear his transition away from grime to sticky pop-rap, but his dexterous raps remind that he hasn’t lost touch with his roots. - Apple Music

 

Ashanti

One of the best-selling singers of her era, Ashanti shot to fame as the soulful, soprano counterpart to hard-rhyming rappers before coming into her own as a solo artist. Born in Glen Cove, NY in 1980, Ashanti Douglas grew up acting and dancing, then turned her attention to singing in her teens. Working with Murder Inc.’s Irv Gotti, she found stardom by nearly upstaging Ja Rule and Fat Joe on their 2001 singles “Always on Time” and “What’s Luv?” then made her solo mark with the defiant hit “Foolish.” With these tracks, she became the second artist—after The Beatles—to have their first three charting songs simultaneously occupy the Top 10. Ashanti didn’t slow down with her Grammy-winning 2002 self-titled debut, which sold over a half-million copies in its first week, then a record for a female debut artist. She continued her platinum-selling run with 2003’s Chapter II and the following year’s Concrete Rose, but financial and creative disputes with Gotti eventually slowed her music career. She returned to acting, appearing in musicals and movies, before coming back with 2014’s expansive Braveheart, which featured Rick Ross and French Montana. Since then, she’s released singles like 2017’s “Say Less” with Ty Dolla $ign and 2019’s upbeat "The Road" with Afro B. Those tracks make it clear—Ashanti hasn’t lost any of the unmistakable vocal prowess that made her a beloved R&B force. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Aitch

2019 73 On The Way Home (JayKae & Aitch feat. Bowzer Boss)

2019 09 Strike A Pose (Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch) MILLIONAIRE

2019 20 Kilos (Bugzy Malone feat. Aitch)

2019 02 Taste (Make It Shake) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 99 Daily Duppy (feat. GRM Daily) -NAS-

2019 08 Buss Down (feat. ZieZie) -2-

2019 43 Already (feat. Tyreezy) -AT-

2019 35 French Kisses (ZieZie feat. Aitch)

2020 09 Ei8ht Mile (DigDat feat. Aitch)

2020 34 MICE -NAS-

2020 03 Rain (Aitch & AJ Tracey feat. Tay Keith) -1-

2020 57 Raw -PS-

2020 36 30 -2-

2020 56 Safe To Say -3-

2020 11 UFO (D-Block Europe & Aitch)

2020 24 Parlez-Vous Anglais (Headie One feat. Aitch)

2021 46 House & Garage (Morrisson feat. Aitch)

2021 27 Learning Curve -1-

2021 52 GSD -2-

2021 56 Party Round My Place (feat. Avelino) -3-

2021 82 Bad (Pa Salieu feat. Aitch)

2022 06 War (ArrDee & Aitch)

2022 02 Baby (Aitch & Ashanti) -4-

 

0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 7 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 14 x Top 40 | 23 x Top 100

 

Ashanti

2002 06 Always On Time (Ja Rule feat. Ashanti)

2002 04 What's Luv? (Fat Joe feat. Ashanti)

2002 04 Foolish -1-

2002 04 Down 4 U (Irv Gotti presents Ja Rule, Ashanti, Charli Baltimore & Vita)

2002 13 Happy -2-

2003 12 Mesmerize (Ja Rule feat. Ashanti)

2003 07 Rock Wit U (Awww Baby) -1-

2003 19 Rain On Me -2-

2004 01 Wonderful (Ja Rule feat. R. Kelly & Ashanti)

2005 02 Only U -1-

2005 38 Don't Let Them -2-

2007 21 Pac's Life (2Pac feat. T.I. & Ashanti)

2008 17 Body On Me (Nelly feat. Akon & Ashanti)

2022 02 Baby (Aitch & Ashanti)

 

1 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 8 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 14 x Top 40 | 14 x Top 100

 

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03 | :up: 05 | 15th week

 

Cat Burns

Go

 

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Non-album single

Released: 31st July 2020

Label: Since 93 / RCA

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (27/01/2022) | 53-48-48-45-47-34-29-19-10-8-6-6-5-5-3

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

07 Sales

05 Audio Streaming

08 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

A 21 year old singer/songwriter from South London, helping you get through stuff one song at a time. - Spotify

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2022 03 Go -NAS-

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100

 

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Kid laroi should gone top 5 shambles official chart

I mean, in an ideal world, Laroi would be #1 this week, but I'm not really sure it's the chart's fault that he's #21 and not top 5...

 

(#21 is a perfectly good debut, hopefully he can climb in the coming weeks!)

The Real Slim Shady by Eminem went 1-2-3-4-5 in 2000

Sigma's Nobody To Love in 2014 too :)

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02 | :right: 02 | 3rd week

 

Jack Harlow

First Class

 

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2nd single from Come Home The Kids Miss You

Released: 8th April 2022

Label: Generation Now / Atlantic Recording Corporation

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (21/04/2022) | 2-2-2

 

Sales: 100k+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

11 Sales

02 Audio Streaming

16 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

“I still wanna be one of the greats,“ rapper Jack Harlow tells Apple Music about his commitment to his craft. “I’m very ambitious about this. And I think I have what it takes to really make a mark because I love the art.” Harlow, born in 1998 in Kentucky, is well on his way to turning that dream into reality. Growing up in Louisville, Harlow started writing and rapping at the age of 12 and released his bouncy first EP before graduating from school in late 2015. Since his more fully realised mixtape, 18, dropped in 2016, Harlow has continued to inject his chill party rap and poppy beats with “addictive, candy-coated qualities,” as he described it to Apple Music. “It’s good on the ears.” With 2017’s Gazebo, he established a more mature sound, moodily riding through his hometown with the intense “Dark Knight” and keeping things dreamy using synth pulses on the regret-laden “Wasted Youth”. It’s a vibe he honed on multiple mixtapes in the late 2010s, keeping with a feel he says is representative of Louisville—smooth and laidback—while exploring elements of trap, which is native to his adopted home base of Atlanta. With every beat on 2020’s punchy, swaggering Sweet Action, Harlow moved closer to the place he sees as his inevitable destination: “On top.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2020 25 WHATS POPPIN -1-

2021 03 INDUSTRY BABY (Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow)

2022 55 Nail Tech -1-

2022 02 First Class -2-

 

0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 4 x Top 100

 

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01 | :right: 01 | 4th week

 

Harry Styles

As It Was

 

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1st single from Harry's House

Released: 1st April 2022

Label: Erskine Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (14/04/2022) | 1-1-1-1

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

In a 2019 interview with Apple Music, Harry Styles shared a memory from the early days of One Direction. They were in the studio in Sweden working on “What Makes You Beautiful”. First single, the rollercoaster train just starting to climb the track. Someone comes into the room and says there are a couple of girls outside. Why? the band asks. They’re looking for you guys. For One Direction. “And we’re all just like, ‘But we’re in Sweden!’”

 

Ah, the old, “who…us?” routine. Harry! Incorrigibly charming, dreamboat for starry-eyed youth the world over. And, as it turns out, a legitimate force in pop, the kind of artist who could bridge contemporary appeal with classic values in ways that felt fresh but familiar, universal.

 

Part of what had made One Direction so great was that they never shied away from the pleasures of boy-band pop, but never patronised their audiences or fell back on gimmicks, either: Never mind the no-dancing policy; they were writing songs, exploring music as something beyond the show. In his solo career, Styles (born 1994, in Redditch, England) has done much the same, combining soul (“Watermelon Sugar”), confessional soft rock (“Sign of the Times”) and psychedelia (“Sunflower, Vol. 6”) with a modern touch, summarising where pop has been while also pushing it forward. “I’m just trying to go through life being a little less worried about stuff,” he said. “Definitely with working. Because ultimately, it’ll be okay.” He had a busy five years there. But he’s got a lifetime ahead of him. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2017 01 Sign Of The Times -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 46 Sweet Creature -IG-

2017 51 Carolina -AT-

2017 58 Two Ghosts -2-

2017 64 Meet Me In The Hallway -AT-

2017 66 Kiwi -3-

2017 80 Only Angel -AT-

2017 87 Ever Since New York -AT-

2017 99 Woman -AT-

2019 03 Lights Up -1-

2019 04 Watermelon Sugar -4- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 Adore You -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 15 Falling -3- MILLIONAIRE

2020 26 Golden -5-

2022 01 As It Was -1-

 

2 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 5 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 15 x Top 100

 

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:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Justin Bieber featuring Don Toliver

Honest

 

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1st single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 29th April 2022

Label: ILH Productions

 

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Biography

 

There’s a moment in a 2020 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe where Justin Bieber begins—quietly, hesitantly—to cry. “It was hard for me being that young and being in the industry, and not knowing where to turn, and everyone telling me they love me, and just turning their back on you in a second,” Bieber says, each clause kicking up memories like dust. The point isn’t to weep with or for him—he’s had more dreams come true in his first 25 years than most people manage in a lifetime. But he’s also one of the few pop stars of his generation to have truly grown up in public, weathering the cable newsification of celebrity culture in the internet era while still trying to develop as both an artist and a person. Even early on, you could tell he had his eye on the future, balancing a doe-eyed wholesomeness with earnest attempts at hip-hop and R&B, material that suited him as a kid with material that reflected his growth into adolescence and adulthood. Some teen-pop singers end up trapped in amber; Justin Bieber has, knocks and all, kept swimming.

 

Born in London, Ontario, in 1994, Bieber was famously discovered when his future manager, Scooter Braun, stumbled on some performance videos that Bieber’s mom had uploaded to YouTube to share with family and friends. Braun, who understood not only Bieber’s appeal but the potential of the internet, encouraged him to keep making videos and keep the equipment cheap—an approach that not only helped Bieber’s growing fanbase to understand that he was still just a kid like them, but drafted a new blueprint for how artists could reach audiences in the digital era. With the exception of a voice change around 2011, 2009’s My World, 2010’s My World 2.0, and 2012’s Believe are more or less of a piece: the sound of a boy trying to stick the landing into puberty. Released in 2015, Purpose showed Bieber developing a more thoughtful connection to his material, including collaborations with vanguard pop producers like Diplo, Skrillex, and Benny Blanco. After a five-year break during which Bieber underwent significant personal changes—including a detox from touring life, a diagnosis of Lyme disease, and a epiphanic marriage to Hailey Baldwin—he came back with 2020’s Changes. “People have been putting me on a pedestal,” Bieber told Apple Music. "I didn’t ask for that. Obviously I love making music, but there are a lot of people that love making music and they’re not in the position that I’m in. I’m just trying to steward that wisely, steward my relationship wisely. I want people to take a look at my story—hopefully, my words can make a difference.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Justin Bieber

2010 11 One Time -1-

2010 71 Love Me -PS-

2010 62 One Less Lonely Girl -2-

2010 76 Favorite Girl -PS-

2010 03 Baby (feat. Ludacris) -3-

2010 98 U Smile -5-

2010 84 Never Let You Go -PS-

2010 09 Eenie Meenie (Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber) -4-

2010 33 Somebody To Love -6-

2011 34 Never Say Never (feat. Jaden Smith) -1-

2011 14 Next To You (Chris Brown feat. Justin Bieber)

2011 21 Mistletoe -1-

2011 91 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) (feat. Usher) -PS-

2012 02 Boyfriend -1-

2012 07 Live My Life (Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber)

2012 39 Turn To You (Mother's Day Dedication) -PS-

2012 34 Die In Your Arms -PS-

2012 30 All Around The World (feat. Ludacris) -4-

2012 22 As Long As You Love Me (feat. Big Sean) -2-

2012 16 Beauty And A Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) -3-

2012 68 Beautiful (Carly Rae Jepsen & Justin Bieber)

2013 68 Nothing Like Us -AT-

2013 02 #thatPOWER (will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber)

2013 56 Lolly (Maejor Ali feat. Juicy J & Justin Bieber)

2013 14 Heartbreaker -PS1-

2013 20 All That Matters -PS2-

2013 28 Hold Tight -PS3-

2013 41 Wait For A Minute (Tyga & Justin Bieber)

2013 28 Recovery -PS4-

2013 31 Bad Day -PS5-

2013 34 All Bad -PS6-

2013 30 PYD (feat. R Kelly) -PS7-

2013 37 Roller Coaster -PS8-

2013 39 Change Me -PS9-

2013 33 Confident (feat. Chance The Rapper) -PS10-

2014 100 Gas Pedal (Sage The Gemini feat. Justin Bieber & IamSu)

2015 03 Where Are Ü Now (Skrillex & Diplo as Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE

2015 01 What Do You Mean? -1- MILLIONAIRE

2015 01 Sorry -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 15 I'll Show You -IG-

2015 01 Love Yourself -3- MILLIONAIRE

2015 25 Company -4-

2015 33 Mark My Words -AT-

2015 34 The Feeling (feat. Halsey) -AT-

2015 41 Purpose -AT-

2015 38 No Pressure (feat. Big Sean) -AT-

2015 44 Children -AT-

2015 50 No Sense (feat. Travis Scott) -AT-

2015 61 Life Is Worth Living -AT-

2015 63 Been You -AT-

2015 74 We Are (feat. Nas) -AT-

2015 77 Get Used To Me -AT-

2015 88 Trust -AT-

2015 94 All In It -AT-

2016 01 Cold Water (Major Lazer feat. Justin Bieber & MØ) MILLIONAIRE

2016 02 Let Me Love You (DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE

2016 63 Deja Vu (Post Malone feat. Justin Bieber)

2017 01 Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 I'm The One (DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne) MILLIONAIRE

2017 05 2U (David Guetta feat. Justin Bieber)

2017 02 Friends (Justin Bieber & BloodPop®) -NAS-

2018 03 No Brainer (DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper & Quavo)

2019 01 I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE

2019 29 Don't Check On Me (Chris Brown feat. Justin Bieber & Ink)

2019 17 10,000 Hours (Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber)

2020 05 Yummy -1-

2020 61 Get Me (feat. Kehlani) -IG-

2020 08 Intentions (feat. Quavo) -2-

2020 29 Forever (feat. Post Malone & Clever) -AT-

2020 04 Stuck With U (Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber) -NAS-

2020 07 Holy (feat. Chance The Rapper) -1-

2020 17 Lonely (Justin Bieber & benny blanco) -2-

2020 04 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree -NAS-

2020 09 Monster (Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber)

2021 04 Anyone -3-

2021 10 Hold On -4-

2021 02 Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON) -5-

2021 24 As I Am (feat. Khalid) -AT-

2021 02 STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE

2021 56 Don't Go (Skrillex, Justin Bieber & Don Toliver)

2021 19 Ghost -6-

2021 88 Red Eye (feat. TroyBoi) -AT-

2021 59 Wandered To LA (Juice WRLD & Justin Bieber)

2022 76 Attention (Omah Lay & Justin Bieber)

2022 90 up at night (Kehlani feat. Justin Bieber)

2022 __ Honest (feat. Don Toliver) -1-

 

7 x #1 | 21 x Top 5 | 27 x Top 10 | 36 x Top 20 | 58 x Top 40 | 85 x Top 100

 

Don Toliver

2019 39 No Idea -1-

2020 57 WHAT TO DO? (JACKBOYS feat. Don Toliver)

2020 60 Had Enough (feat. Quavo & Offset) -AT-

2020 47 After Party -AT-

2020 01 Lemonade (Internet Money & Gunna feat. Don Toliver & NAV)

2021 56 Don't Go (Skrillex, Justin Bieber & Don Toliver)

2021 99 Flocky Flocky (Don Toliver feat. Travis Scott)

2022 __ Honest (Justin Bieber feat. Don Toliver)

 

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100

 

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:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Sam Smith

Love Me More

 

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1st single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 28th April 2022

Label: Capitol Records UK

 

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Biography

 

It’s hard to think of many artists in 21st-century pop who could match the vulnerability of Sam Smith. “I’ve never shied away from telling the truth in my music,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020. “Music is literally my best friend; it’s a release, a form of diary and therapy.”

 

Born in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridge, Smith first began gaining significant traction in 2012 with a pair of dance hits—Disclosure’s “Latch”, and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” the following year. They revealed that elastic falsetto, but didn’t quite hint at the sadness that would define the outrageous success to come. That arrived with 2014’s Grammy-winning In the Midnight Hour, an exquisite meditation on unrequited love, and its follow-up, the heartbreak-inspired The Thrill of It All. This second album saw Smith—by then an Oscar winner for 2015’s Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”—open up about instant fame and embrace their status as a gay role model, against a backdrop of stirring, gospel-infused balladry. It has always been clear that Smith’s power lies as much in that voice as in an unwavering bravery to put their innermost feelings—loneliness, confusion, desperation, desire—on full public view.

 

By the run-up to album three, however, Smith was also ready to have a little more fun. The aching melancholy of love, loss, and yearning for someone to spend their days with was still present, but this time, it was all being mined for invigorating music to help dance the blues away. That third LP should have arrived in early 2020 in the form of To Die For, but, amid the global pandemic, it was delayed, reworked and renamed with the more sensitive title of Love Goes. The album, Smith said ahead of its release, allowed them to heal after their first true break-up. But it also heralded freedom. “I felt at one point that I was going to be trapped onstage wearing a suit and singing ballads for the rest of my life,” said Smith. “When I look back at Love Goes, it reminds of the courage it took. A lot of my life, probably because of a lot of internalised queerphobia, and queerphobia around me, I felt ashamed of myself and not being able to fully be myself through my music. Each time I make an album, I learn to like myself a little more. The more I make music, the closer to myself I feel.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2012 11 Latch (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2013 01 La La La (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith) MILLION SELLER

2013 86 Safe With Me -EP-

2013 82 Nirvana -EP-

2014 01 Money On My Mind -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 15 Lay Me Down -1/6-

2014 01 Stay With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE

2014 03 I'm Not The Only One -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 09 Like I Can -5-

2014 53 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -NAS-

2015 01 Lay Me Down (feat. John Legend) -7-

2015 13 Omen (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith)

2015 01 Writing's On The Wall -OST-

2017 01 Too Good At Goodbyes -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 26 Pray (feat. Logic) -3-

2017 63 Burning -IG-

2017 27 One Last Song -2-

2018 01 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2019 63 Fire On Fire -NAS-

2019 03 Dancing With A Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 How Do You Sleep? -2-

2019 76 I Feel Love -PS-

2020 18 To Die For -3-

2020 20 I'm Ready (Sam Smith & Demi Lovato) -4-

2020 43 My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy) -5-

2020 11 Diamonds -6-

2020 89 Kids Again -AT-

2020 72 The Lighthouse Keeper -NAS-

2022 __ Love Me More -1-

 

7 x #1 | 9 x Top 5 | 11 x Top 10 | 17 x Top 20 | 19 x Top 40 | 28 x Top 100

 

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