Lewis Capaldi has finally notched his first video in the YouTube billion-views club. The Scottish singer made it onto the 10-digit list this week when his 2019 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit became his first visual to notch a billie.
The heartbreak ballad that was originally released as a single from Capaldi’s second EP, 2018’s Breach — and later included on his 2019 debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent — and in the accompanying visual a lovelorn Capaldi sits dejected-looking on a park bench holding hands with a lover who looks equally shaken.
As she gets up and walks away, he hauntedly sings, “I’m going under and this time I fear there’s no one to save me/ This all or nothing really got a way of driving me crazy/ I need somebody to heal/ Somebody to know/ Somebody to have/ Somebody to hold/ It’s easy to say” over the song’s hypnotic piano figure.
Wandering the foggy streets, a friend tries to calm down the agitated singer as he laments his imagined future of sleeping alone after “getting kinda used to being someone you loved” on the track that also topped the charts in the U.K, where it spent seven weeks at No. 1. Unsure how to carry on, Capaldi wanders the lonely streets as a group of partying women stop to urge him to just let her go, before what seems like the whole town comes out to hold him back as his former beloved looks back one last time. The clip ends with Capaldi singing across the void as the woman walks off and, seemingly, out of his life.
“Someone You Loved” spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 beginning on Nov. 2, 2019, marking Capaldi’s first, and only, chart-topper on the singles tally to date in the U.S.; the track also hit No. 1 on the Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Adult Contemporary charts.
Watch the video for “Someone You Loved” below.
The post “Lewis Capaldi’s ‘Someone You Loved’ Notches One Billion YouTube Views” by Gil Kaufman was published on 03/05/2025 by www.billboard.com