Lewis Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. Capaldi achieved global mainstream success throughout 2019 with his international breakthrough single "Someone You Loved” which spent 7 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart making it one of the longest No 1 singles in UK chart history. On 17 May 2019 he released his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which remained at the top of the UK album chart of 6 weeks, also charting in the top 3 all over the world. Capaldi 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. His debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent followed in June which became the best selling album in the UK for five years, spending five weeks at number one in its first six weeks of release. The album also achieved gold status in the UK only two days after release. Capaldi 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 will see Capaldi play to over a quarter of a million people at his headline shows in March 2020 alone.
