And it has overtaken Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You” as the UK’s most-streamed song of all time. “One day I sat down at my piano, after the death, and I started messing around,” Capaldi continued. “And as ...

A lot of pop songs become hits because they perk you up. But not this pop song. Among current chart-topping bops like Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” and Lil Naz X’s “Old Town Road,” there’s the absolute ...

"I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved." The sentence is simple; the sentiment is deep. Lewis Capaldi howls these words at the peak of his breakthrough hit, his coarse, hearty vocals ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

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So Capaldi essentially scored a global No. 1 hit from a standing start in 2019. How’d he pull that off? I can’t speak for the song’s success in Denmark, Italy, or Singapore. But in America, at least, ...