Discover the story of the song > Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi

- "Someone You Loved" is a single by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi.
- It was first released on November 8, 2018 by Vertigo Records and Universal Music as the third single from his Breach EP; it was later included on his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent released in May 2019.
- The song was written by Lewis Capaldi, Samuel Romans, and producers Thomas Barnes, Peter Kelleher and Benjamin Kohn.
- "Someone You Loved" was a commercial success.
- It was Lewis Capaldi's first number one single in the UK charts, a position it held for seven consecutive weeks.
- It also topped the Irish charts.
- In the United States, the single was an unexpected success and reached number one on the US charts after 24 weeks.
- In an interview with New Musical Express, Lewis Capaldi revealed that it took him six months to write "Someone You Loved."
- "A lot of people say that 'the best songs come to you' and that they're the easiest to write and the ones that take the least amount of time; I absolutely disagree with that. I think my best songs come when I sit down at the piano, when I bang my head against a brick wall for hours and hours, and finally come up with a good melody."