UK soul singer Sam Smith has just released a video for his personal favourite track on his album. Restart goes backstage and behind-the-scenes in Sam’s whirlwind year-long rise to fame.
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2014 has been quite a year for Smith. He told the Guardian in an interview that he wanted to be the “biggest-selling male pop star in the entire world,”, well he’s not far from that. This year alone the 22-year-old star has won the BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll and the Crtics Choice Award. His debut solo single went straight to Nº1 in the UK and Nº2 in the US – the highest ever debut entry for a British singer. And last week he was nominated for four Mobo awards – Best Song (Stay With Me), Best R&B/Soul Act, Best Album (In the Lonely Hour) and Best Male Act.
This video seems like the perfect way to end a perfect year – a look back at all the tours and the action behind the scenes. “Restart is one of my favourite tracks on the album and I really felt like I wanted to visualise it,” says Smith. “I had such an amazing time putting this video together, remembering some incredible moments from this year and also a recent trip with my team to Brighton this summer.”
Smith’s debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in the UK on 26 May 2014 via Capitol Records. It went straight to Nº1 in the UK, outselling Coldplay’s album Ghost Stories by nearly 20,000 copies. In the US, it debuted at Nº2 with first-week sales of 166,000 copies.
