

He said, "A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that. In an interview with NME, Capaldi revealed that it took him six months to write the song. In an interview with the French magazine "Brut", Capaldi revealed he wrote the song about his grandmother who had passed away. As of 2021, "Someone You Loved" is the 5th most streamed song on Spotify with 2.2 billion streams on Spotify. It also received an award for Song of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 62nd Grammy Awards. In the United States, "Someone You Loved", a piano ballad, was a sleeper hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in its 24th week on the chart. It also peaked at number one on the Irish Singles Chart in March 2019.

The song became Capaldi's first number one single, spending seven consecutive weeks atop of the chart and was the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. "Someone You Loved" was a commercial success, peaking at number one on the UK Singles Chart. It was serviced to radio stations on 16 April 2019 as the first US single. The song was written by Capaldi, Samuel Romans, and its producers Thomas Barnes, Peter Kelleher and Benjamin Kohn. It was released as a download on 8 November 2018 through Vertigo Records and Universal Music as the third single from his second extended play, Breach (2018), and was later included on his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (2019). " Someone You Loved" is a song recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. 2018 single by Lewis Capaldi "Someone You Loved"įrom the EP Breachand the album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
