Zane Lowe premiered "Someone You Loved" on Apple's Beats 1 radio on the day of release. Capaldi's second extended play Breach was released on 8 November 2018, which included previously released singles "Tough" and " Grace", along with new songs " Someone You Loved" and a demo of "Something Borrowed". In addition to this, Capaldi 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. In August 2018, Irish Indie rock band Kodaline invited Capaldi to open for them at a concert in Belfast. On 13 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. 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. In May 2018 Capaldi joined Sam Smith on their The Thrill of It All European Tour, opening for Smith over 19 dates. Subsequently, Horan invited Capaldi to support him on two dates on his Flicker World Tour at the Glasgow SEC Armadillo in March 2018. He attracted attention from celebrities including Chloë Grace Moretz, Kygo, James Bay, Ellie Goulding and Niall Horan. 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. Capaldi was also long-listed for BBC Music's Sound of 2018. In late 2017, Capaldi was named as one of Vevo dscvr 'Artists to Watch 2018' and he won Best Acoustic at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards. 2017–2018: Increased recognition and European tourĬapaldi performing at the 2018 Ilosaarirock Festival in Joensuu, Finland His releases are distributed in UK by Virgin EMI Records and in North America by Capitol Records. Shortly afterwards, he was signed to the German branch of Universal Music Group, and was assigned to Vertigo Berlin division. 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.
He later released his first track "Bruises" on 31 March 2017. 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. The day after first contacting Capaldi, Walter flew from America to Britain to hear Capaldi play live. Aged 18, he was discovered by his manager Ryan Walter through an iPhone recording Capaldi recorded in his bedroom and had uploaded to his SoundCloud account. He played in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Fort William alongside Jacob and Rory Green and Zoë Bestel. In 2014 Capaldi took part in a three-date tour as part of the 'Hit the Road' project run by The Scottish Music Centre. Career 2014–2017: Beginnings and Bloom EP By 17 he had committed to a career in music. Capaldi learned to play drums and guitar when he was two, and began his musical career singing in pubs aged 9. In 2016, he graduated with a HND in Music from New College Lanarkshire, Motherwell. Kentigern's Academy, Blackburn in West Lothian. His mother is a nurse and his father is a fishmonger. 2.4 2021–present: Upcoming second studio albumĬapaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and lived there until he was four years old.2.3 2019–2020: Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.2.2 2017–2018: Increased recognition and European tour.In May 2020, it was announced that Capaldi's song "Someone You Loved" had become the longest-running top 10 UK single of all time by a British artist.
It later went on to become the best selling album of 20 in the UK, and "Someone You Loved" was the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. On, he released his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which remained at the top of the UK Albums Chart for six weeks. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist. In March 2019, his single " Someone You Loved" topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 it was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Lewis Marc Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.