Artist · chart history
Sam Smith
Solo artist London United Kingdom English singer‐songwriter
Sam Smith is an artist from London. Sam Smith has 22 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2018. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stay with Me”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Sam Smith most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Sam Smith arrived in 2014 with a voice that could turn a London pub into a gospel church. Born in 1992, they'd already been heard on Disclosure's "Latch" and Naughty Boy's "La La La", but the debut album In the Lonely Hour, released on Capitol, made them a star in their own right: a soul and R&B record sung in a soaring, aching voice that slips into falsetto whenever the feelings get too big.
"Stay with Me" is the heart of it, a slow, hymn-like ballad that topped the UK singles chart and stalled just one spot short of the summit of the Billboard Hot 100. "I'm Not The Only One" followed as a slow-burning soul song, and "Money on My Mind" gave them another UK number one.
In the Lonely Hour went on to become the best-selling UK debut of the 2010s, and at the Grammys it brought home Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. The Bond theme "Writing's on the Wall" later won them an Academy Award, and in 2022 "Unholy" with Kim Petras gave Smith their first American number one.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sam Smith on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay with Me | 12 | #3 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | I'm Not The Only One | 7 | #8 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Money On My Mind | 1 | #43 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | Not The Only One | 1 | #26 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Lay Me Down | 1 | #184 | – | 2014 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Sam Smith as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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