Lewis Capaldi Hits Huge Milestone of 1 Million UK Sales for Debut Album 'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent'

05 September 2020 - Press release

Biggest Selling Album & Single Of 2019

Album Has Not Left the UK Top 10 For 68 Weeks

x5 Top 10 Singles & x2 Number 1's

5th Longest Running Consecutive Weeks In The Top 10 For A Solo Artist Album

'Someone You Loved' More Weeks In Top 10 Than Any Song EVER By British Act

Biggest Streamed Week 1 Debut Album Of All Time

x2 BRIT Award Winner, US Grammy Nominee & Q Award Winner

Fast Approaching 10 Billion Global Streams

 

Lewis Capaldi today hits an impressive milestone of 1 million UK sales of his debut album 'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent'.

Alongside the sales milestone, the album is now placed as the 5th longest running solo artist album for consecutive weeks in the official top 10 with 68 weeks in the charts. This puts the Scottish superstar ahead of celebrated records from the likes of The Beatles (Please Please Me), Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms) & Emeli Sande (Our Version Of Events).

This achievement comes a matter of months after the album returned once again to the summit of the Official UK Album Charts exactly one year on from it's release, marking it's 10th week at number 1 - a phenomenal accomplishment that very few artists can boast.

Becoming the biggest streamed week 1 debut of all time, the album spawned five UK Top 10 singles in 'Hold Me While You Wait' (4), 'Bruises' (6) & 'Grace' (9), the most recent crowned chart topper 'Before You Go', which in recent weeks has entered The Billboard Top 10 charts, and number 1 smash hit single of 2019 'Someone You Loved', which spent seven weeks at the summit of the Official Singles Chart. It also became Lewis' first ever US number 1, as well as bagging him his first Grammy nomination for 'Song Of The Year'. 

The awards don't stop there, as this year's BRITs saw Lewis lead the way with four nominations and come away as joint highest winner of the night, bagging 'Best New Artist' and 'Song Of The Year'. He also won 'Best Track' at the Q Awards in October last year.

After a year of sold out headline shows of which he performed to fans in their hundreds of thousands across the globe, March 2020 saw Capaldi step up to headline arena shows - which included two stellar performances at London's SSE Arena Wembley - which sold-out ahead of his debut album release, making him one of the first artists to ever achieve such a feat. He will now step up yet again to London's O2 Arena in October 2021 where he'll play two sold out nights on the 14th & 15th.

Lewis shows no signs of slowing down and continues to break records and sell out whatever he puts his name to. A true Scottish superstar.