How ‘Someone You Loved’ and Lewis Capaldi’s debut sustained their success after 2019
The UK Number One had a long route to the US summit, while *Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent* became Britain’s best-selling album in two successive years.
Lewis Capaldi’s 2019 breakthrough held because ‘Someone You Loved’ and Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent did not have to rely on one release-week explosion. The song had already begun its ascent from a 2018 EP, spent seven weeks at Number One in the UK, then found a later US peak. Released on 17th May 2019, the album gave listeners a fuller body of work while the single was still expanding, and became the UK’s best-selling album in both 2019 and 2020.